Martha Plimpton lived in the same rent-stabilized, Upper West Side, apartment building for the first four decades of her life. In 2013, the actress decided that it was time to buy her first home. She was 42.<\/p>\n
A 1980s icon known for her roles in Hollywood classics such as \u201cThe Goonies,\u201d \u201cParenthood\u201d and \u201cThe Mosquito Coast,\u201d Ms. Plimpton, 55, spent the early aughts working as a New York stage actress in prestigious productions, including \u201cThe Coast of Utopia\u201d at Lincoln Center Theater, for which she earned a Drama Desk Award.<\/p>\n
But, in 2010, Ms. Plimpton\u2019s accountant told her that she had $300 to to her name despite being a three-time Tony nominee and Obie winner. So, Ms. Plimpton segued into a television career. She earned an Emmy nomination for her role in \u201cRaising Hope,\u201d a black comedy on Fox that began airing in 2010. Her success allowed Ms. Plimpton to purchase her three-story Victorian home in Prospect Lefferts Gardens for $1.35 million and complete a gut renovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martha Plimpton lived in the same rent-stabilized, Upper West Side, apartment building for the first four decades of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,10016,41259,9,24,56,63,41258,41260,7288],"class_list":["post-84502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-interior-design-and-furnishings","tag-martha","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-plimpton","tag-prospect-lefferts-gardens-brooklyn","tag-restoration-and-renovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}