This apartment is a magnificent 2 bedroom with all original flooring, fireplace, and decorative walls, in an 1830 Mansion. (John Wilkes Booth actually lived here). Original gas lamposts outside the building. 16 foot ceilings. Right now its being totally renovated with a new kitchen, bathroom, chandeliers, walls. 2 Fireplaces, and a beautiful deck off the livingroom. One of the best streets in Manhattan, with a lot of history behind it. Tree-lined, famous landmarks, stars townhouses, and just really adorable.
A huge 1100 sq.ft. 2 bedroom for.
Live where history lives.
Transport yourself back in time.
$5500

A huge 900 sq.ft. 1 bedroom for
$4500

Grove St.

Originally a freestanding two-story building, this was, in the 19th century, one of the Village's most elegant mansions, surrounded by verdant lawns with greenhouses and stables. Built in 1830, it was refurbished with Italianate influences in 1870. In the movie Reds, which is based on the life of John Reed, Grove was portrayed (inaccurately) as Eugene O'Neill's house.

Ohio-born poet Hart Crane rented a second-floor room at Grove St. in 1923 and began writing his poetic portrait of America, The Bridge (Hart depicted the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol of America's westward expansion). During his childhood, Crane was constantly traveling with his mother, which kept him from finishing school; nonetheless, he was a voracious reader and brilliantly self-educated. By the time he was 17, his poetry had been published in prestigious New York magazines.
In later years, frustrated by frequent rejection from magazines and other exigencies of his craft, Crane would occasionally toss his typewriter out the window. Often moody and despondent, he was chronically in debt, plagued by guilt over homosexual encounters on the nearby docks, and given to almost nightly alcoholic binges; fellow Villager e.e.Cummings once found him passed out on a sidewalk, bundled him into a taxi, and had him driven home. In 1932, returning by ship from Mexico (where, on a Guggenheim fellowship, he had been attempting to write an epic poem about Montezuma), Crane made sexual advances to a crew member, was badly beaten up, and jumped into the waters to his death at the age of 33.