Posted on 11/07/2009 7:15:10 AM PST by tlb
...gossip mills are beginning to gush and grind about increasingly muscular CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper and his muscle Mary man-friend Antoine "Ben" Maisani snatching up a very butch firehouse on West Third Street in New York City's Greenwich Village.
These roiling real estate rumors of Misters Cooper and Maisani–who recently vacationed together in India –purchasing Fire Patrol House #2 seems to have first found legs a few days ago on the New York City-centric gossip site Gawker.
Listing information for the four and some story firehouse shows it was listed at $4,750,000, measures a considerable 8,420 square feet, and still has its original brass poles, circular stairs, a herringbone brick floor and a two-story detached building that was once used as a stable.
Further investigation turns up property record information that reveals the firehouse was sold in early September of 2009 for $4,300,000. The buyer(s)–listed only as Firepatrol, LLC c/o of a well known celebrity money manager whose name appears on deeds for folks like Lisa Loeb, Ethan Hawke and Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany–are not named in the deeds and documents.
November 6, 2009
Update:
Mister Cooper has in fact shown certain persons photos of the firehouse in question and declared his intention to sell his midtown penthouse apartment on West 38th Street and live in said firehouse downtown. Who Mister Cooper might live with, or not live with, remains a mystery which we imagine is just about how he likes it.
(Excerpt) Read more at realestalker.blogspot.com ...
Looking it up this would be about a block from NYU and near SoHo. Preppy neighborhood. A sushi bar in walking distance is nearly a certainty.
Assuming ample working capital, converting a firehouse to a townhouse might make for a very interesting home.
V 2009 movie: Is Anderson Cooper-y, the morally compromised journalist?
Don't know about that but we have a pretty good guess who the leader is...
Save that graphic for the kinkier members of your “hit it” ping list....
“Assuming ample working capital, converting a firehouse to a townhouse might make for a very interesting home.”
Yes, it would. I bid on several in the early 80’s, got zippo. Same thing with the older, smaller Church’s, either brick, block, or rock. They can make a wonderful home.
I thought you had to have made that headline up, but no, that’s the headline at the source link.
Headline Of The Week, for sure. Catty and sly. I like it.
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