Parker Posey Picks Up Pint-Sized Manhattan Penthouse
By Mark David
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Parker Posey has set down some real estate roots in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood with the $1.495 million purchase of a petite, triplex penthouse atop a funky, asymmetrically balanced brown brick townhouse sandwiched between two much more staid, historic buildings.
With one bedroom and 1.5 bathrooms in about 800 square feet, the co-operative-style unit — as noted by the NY Post , a walk-up, which means there’s a whole lot of thigh-busting and glute-firming grocery schlepping in Posey’s future — features old-fashioned parquet wood floors, and a sculptural corkscrew staircase and an eye-catching geometric brown brick fireplace reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Flooded with natural light though a huge, unusually angular skylight, the petite living room feels much larger due to a double-height ceiling, the south-facing dining room features a huge, half-moon window, and the remodeled kitchen is finished with black, honed granite counter tops and white subway tile back splashes, Arts and Crafts-style cherry wood cabinetry and the not-especially high-end appliances. Upstairs, there’s a small window and a huge skylight in the bedroom along with three closets, one of them a walk-in, a compact modern bathroom and an office/dressing room that overlooks the living room. The staircase winds up to a private rooftop deck compete with a storage closet and bar area with sink and refrigerator. The property was represented by Ann Cutbill Lenane at Douglas Elliman Real Estate .
Posey has previously owned several other and also relatively modest if not exactly inexpensive downtown apartments. In 2008 she sold an eclectic, 1,100 square foot one-bedroom East Village co-op for just over $1.3 million — it’s now owned by Alexander Skarsgård, who acquired it in 2017 for $2.3 million — and in 2016 she got hit with the real estate lucky stick when she sold a one-bedroom and one-bathroom unit in an elegant apartment house on lower Fifth Avenue for $1.555 million , well above its $1.35 million asking price.
The 1995 “Party Girl” star, who since 2018 has portrayed a criminal psychopath on Netflix’s 2018 reboot of the 1960s sci-fi series “Lost in Space” and is set to star in Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut, “ Bream Gives Me Hiccups ,” based on his collection of stories of the same name, has also owned a bucolic, semi-remote getaway near Ghent, N.Y. since 2007 when she bought it for $650,000 from showbiz scion Tatum O’Neal.
