Close your eyes for a second or at least the duration of the wink of a young girl’s eye and imagine how you think Little Steven Van Zandt‘s penthouse apartment would look. Tiger print clashing with rainbow print everywhere? Head shop throw blankets over all the furniture? Psychedelic stained glass? Now visit 6sqft’s realty listing for the abode and see how right you were. About the only surprise is the French version of a movie poster for La Dolce Vita. French? In Silvio Dante’s home?
Van Zandt is selling his penthouse, located in a renovated 19th century church in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, with the asking price of $15 million (or roughly $4,200 per square foot). The flamboyant E Street Band guitarist and actor purchased the three-bedroom, three-bath duplex in 2008, a year after The Sopranos concluded, for $6 million. It features 20-foot ceilings, stained glass, and an elevated patio. But it’s hard to tell what the raw space looks like since Van Zandt and his wife decorated it like the VIP area at a Hard Rock Café. It’s a look only Little Steven can make work, but you can’t.
“Set within a converted Romanesque Revival church, this unapologetically bold duplex penthouse is defined by dramatic architectural framework and commanding presence,” the official listing reads. “This is not a conventional home, but a rare opportunity to inhabit a space where structure and historical context elevate rather than define, within one of Downtowns most distinctive residential conversions.”
Not included in the listing is the inherent bragging rights that the place used to belong to an E Streeter and Bruce Springsteen almost certainly used one the bathrooms. But which one?
