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Sophia:
Manhattan Real-estate woes helped Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard to brooklyn
Nothing bonds New Yorkers like real estate. So, while we can’t even fathom what it must be like to be 32 and own a four-story townhouse in Park Slope, when we visited Maggie Gyllenhaal at her brownstone last week, we could at least (sort of) relate to her tales of the West Village rental she and Peter Sarsgaard had been living in before they fled to Brooklyn. The actress, who’s currently co-starring with Jeff Bridges in the Oscar-bait indie Crazy Heart, says her aunt had been living in a “big, beautiful, raw” loft space on Greenwich Street with her husband and two kids for years, and that Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard had inherited the right to rent it from her “super-cheaply.” It was on the fourth floor of one of two adjoining walk-ups that had been bought by two artist couples who were dear friends and treated the buildings as a commune. “Then one couple died and part of the ownership went down to their son, who was nuts, and then the other couple gave one of the floors to their daughter’s boyfriend, who then was no longer her boyfriend,” says Gyllenhaal. “It was just never official and all very kind of loose. Which is great — unless it’s not, you know.”
Gyllenhaal isn’t quite sure exactly what happened, but soon the building’s owners started trying to break up each other’s leases, and simultaneously tried to increase Gyllenhaal’s rent astronomically and force them out. “It was this totally strange, like, New York situation where there were five owners of the building who were suing each other and we lived on the only floor that they all owned jointly, and so they were all trying to sue us,” she says. “It was, like, crazy.”
At some point, Gyllenhaal says, she had to mentally check out. “I did just sort of try to say, ‘As long as we’re fine, I don’t want to spend much of my energy thinking about this. Honestly, everybody was telling us, ‘You’re just absolutely going to win. Don’t worry. Just show up at the court date. You’ve done nothing wrong.’ Which is exactly what happened.”
It was an awesome location and an awesome price, but by that point, Gyllenhaal was pregnant, and when she contemplated her future there, it involved more lawsuits and every single day lugging a giant Maclaren stroller up and down four flights of stairs because her lobby was “three feet by three feet” and she couldn’t possibly leave it downstairs. “I always thought I’d raise my kids in Manhattan, but I’m really glad we left,” she says. “We closed on the house two days after she [her daughter Ramona] was born. I remember someone said, ‘Oh, we closed on the house!’ And I was like, ‘Oh great.’ Next to having this 2-day-old baby, I just didn’t care.”
Related: Read Jada's Encounter with Gyllenhaal in this week's New York.
Read more: Manhattan Real-Estate Woes Helped Push Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard to Brooklyn -- Daily Intel http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/12/manhattan_real_estate_woes_hel.html#ixzz0b2egANJV
Sammi:
Ellemeno - Russ & Daughters is a catering place/deli in NYC, they have hot appetizers and stuff like that. I don't know if their food is specificly jewish or not. She probably meant she is not cooking, they were bringing in food.
Sophia:
Now days you can start to wonder what subject the Gyllenhaals are talking about at the dinner tables. Apparantly Maggie Gyllenhaal is shooting a new movie called hysteria, which is about a treatment during the Victorian era called female hysteria. Jake doing Viagra and Maggie this, I wonder what movie the rest of the family will be occupied with, I guess it have something to do with sex. :o :o
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Sammi on December 29, 2009, 09:56:12 am ---Ellemeno - Russ & Daughters is a catering place/deli in NYC, they have hot appetizers and stuff like that. I don't know if their food is specificly jewish or not. She probably meant she is not cooking, they were bringing in food.
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Thank you, Sammi! I didn't see this until now many months after asking my questions. I'm sorry. Hadn't realized it had been that long since I looked at this thread.
I saw a really interesting movie with Maggie on Netflix streaming recently. It's called The Great New Wonderful, and I recommend it. It has a fantastic cast, in a melange of slightly interconnected stories. Maggie is very good.
delalluvia:
The real estate situation in such cities just boggles the mind.
Is it any wonder the market is such a stack of cards waiting to fall?
I watched my favorite dream show "International House Hunter" and in the 'looking for a home in Rome, Italy" episode, they couldn't show anyone actually looking to buy a home, because no one could afford one there, they had to showcase someone looking for an apartment to rent and the rent of nice-sized apartments in key areas was upwards of nearly $10,000 per month. :o :o :o
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