It’s been over a decade since Uma Thurman swapped her three-unit combination apartment in Manhattan‘s Gramercy Park neighborhood for a posh pad at the River House on East 52nd Street. Now the Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill star’s former digs have resurfaced for sale, asking a smidge under $9 million. Chris Kann and Jennifer Ireland of Corcoran hold the listing.
Records show the actress, who is currently starring in Dexter: Resurrection, paid around $2.7 million for a duplex on the eighth and ninth floors of the 1 Lexington Avenue building in 2006, about a year after her divorce from Ethan Hawke—they previously owned a different duplex in the same building—and then undertook a five-year renovation. She acquired another unit on the eighth floor in 2012 for nearly $1.6 million and added it to the existing residence before selling the entire place around four years later to the current owners for just over $6.6 million, about 5 percent more than the $6.25 million asking price.
The living and media rooms flow to a study resting beneath a tray ceiling.
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Wrapping around two corners of the prewar co-op designed and built in 1910 by noted architect Herbert Lucas, Thurman’s onetime abode has five bedrooms, three baths, and a powder room in roughly 2,800 square feet. The contemporary interiors are adorned throughout with a mix of oak herringbone and hardwood floors, 10-foot ceilings, and large windows offering up plenty of natural light and picturesque views of the city skyline.
A staircase-clad entrance gallery on the lower level flows to a living room with a wood-burning fireplace and pocketing doors leading to a study. A chandelier-topped dining room that seats eight opens to a 3-foot-by-14-foot terrace overlooking the Gramercy Park treetops, while the kitchen is outfitted with glossy white cabinetry, an eat-in island, and top-tier Miele and Bosch appliances.
The formal dining room spills out to a terrace overlooking the skyline.
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The sleeping quarters include four guest bedrooms, one of which has been converted into a media room, as well as an upper-level primary suite boasting a Turkish steam bath sporting an arched tiled ceiling, heated floors, and a marble slab bench. There’s also a hefty $12,446 per month maintenance fee, which entitles the new owner to a 24-hour doorman, a concierge, storage space, and a coveted key to the private Gramercy Park.
Thurman, the mother of actress Maya Hawke, who gained widespread acclaim for her role as Robin Buckley in the long-running Netflix series Stranger Things, still owns the East River home, plus a big spread in upstate New York.
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Wendy Bowman
Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…