Celeb portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz sells industrial-chic NYC loft for $8M

Real property aficionado and personage shutterbug ultimate Annie Leibovitz, 75, has sold her West Village loft for $8 million, according to spot records. The news was first reported by Crain’s. 

The full-floor residence, pinch its 60-foot statement of striking steel-clad windows showcasing nan Hudson River, first deed nan market for $8.5 cardinal successful January. 

The industrial-chic dwelling is astatine 495 West St., betwixt Jane and West 12th streets. It’s successful architect/developer Cary Tamarkin’s nine-story, seven-unit boutique building, which dates to 1998 and boasts full-floor apartments and 2 duplexes. The building helped anchor Hudson River Park.

The legendary photographer was astir precocious connected nan roadworthy to photograph Vice President Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney successful Wisconsin for Vogue magazine. She has been photographing US statesmanlike elections since 1972 erstwhile she traveled pinch Hunter S. Thompson to screen George McGovern’s tally against Richard Nixon.

Leibovitz paid $6.5 million for nan live-work unit, which was astir precocious group up arsenic a photography workplace successful 2022, according to records.

For Leibovitz, nan loft was a measurement for her to downsize. She antecedently owned a Civil War-era West Village compound that she sold for $28.5 cardinal to David and Lauren Bush Lauren. 

It’s been a bully existent property twelvemonth for Leibovitz. In February, she sold her Upper West Side residence astatine 88 Central Park West for $10.62 million. That was much than 23% above its $8.6 million asking price, though still little than nan $11.3 cardinal she had paid for nan portion successful 2014.

Residents complete nan years astatine nan building, known arsenic nan Brentmore, included Sting, Robert De Niro, Paul Simon and Lorne Michaels. 

This just-sold pad is simply a roomy 3,198 quadrate feet and comes pinch 2 bedrooms and 2½ bathrooms. Before Leibovitz owned it, nan spot was asking $10.5 cardinal backmost successful 2019.

The location opens from a keyed elevator into a main surviving abstraction pinch stream and downtown views. There’s a woodburning fireplace, heated bluestone floors, a bedewed barroom and an unfastened eat-in kitchen. A room nook pinch civilization bookshelves adds charm, but it tin besides beryllium converted into a 3rd bedroom.

The main chamber suite has a ample walk-in closet and a windowed spa-like bath.  

Design specifications see floor-to-ceiling columns. 

The listing agent was Corcoran’s Deborah Kern.