Producer Scott Rudin lists NYC townhouse for $26M
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Award-winning film and Broadway producer Scott Rudin and his husband John Barlow, a former theater publicist, just listed their historic home at 22 Bank St. in the West Village for $26 million.
Rudin and Barlow bought the four-bedroom, 19th-century townhouse on the street — named for the Bank of New York, founded by New York Post founder Alexander Hamilton — for $17.42 million in 2019.
The then-seller was Toronto-born editor Graydon Carter, the current founder of Air Mail, and the legendary former editor of Vanity Fair who famously received an interest-free mortgage to buy the Bank Street townhouse from his then-employers at Condé Nast.
Rudin is one of the world’s rare EGOTs — he has won all four top awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — and he is known for producing films like “The Social Network,” “No Country for Old Men” and “Lady Bird.”
But Rudin is also known for his allegedly over-the-top cruel, abusive and even violent behavior to staff, as per a 2021 expose, “Bully,” in The Hollywood Reporter. In the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the city’s theater community also marched down Broadway in protest of Rudin’s alleged improprieties.
The three-story, Greek Revival-style home is 3,850 square feet.
Built between 1844 and 1845, the home was recently renovated by G.P. Schafer, and features a new elevator and reclaimed pine floors, along with the original staircase.
At 19 feet wide, the narrow townhouse comes with a south-facing garden. The home also includes its original stoop and opens on the parlor level, with a great room that boasts 11-foot ceilings, two fireplaces and built-in bookcases; it even features its original window shutters. The floor also has a library with oversize windows and a Juliet balcony that overlooks the garden.
A second entrance, on the garden level, opens with a mudroom-style built-in bench and coat rack, and opens to a den/guest suite. Farther back is a formal dining room with a gas fireplace and a chef’s kitchen, overlooking the bamboo-planted garden, with a pantry and wine storage.
The main bedroom suite takes up the top floor. It comes with a decorative fireplace, three large windows, built-in closets, a spa-like bath under a large skylight and access to a large terrace overlooking townhouse gardens. The cellar also has room to add a gym or a yoga studio, and also includes a laundry room.
The listing broker is Corcoran’s Deborah Grubman.
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