Amy Schumer blamed the commute to her son’s school in Manhattan as the reason she’s selling her Moonstruck home in Brooklyn Heights.
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Just three years after Amy Schumer bought the Moonstruck townhouse at 19 Cranberry Street in Brooklyn Heights, the actress and her family are apparently heading back to Manhattan.
The five-bedroom, three-and-half-bath mansion that housed the Castorini family in the 1987 film starring Cher and Nic Cage was listed Friday for $14 million — an increase of $1.75 million from when she picked it up in 2022. The Federal-style, four-story home has high ceilings, grand rooms with crown moldings, fireplaces with original marble mantles, and 30 windows — ideal for natural light but perhaps less so for privacy. The eat-in kitchen comes with Gaggenau appliances and a three-oven LaCanche range, but also vintage wood cabinets, exposed beams, and wide-planked floorboards. In the basement: a gym and a custom-built wine cellar. The actress even hired landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh of nearby Brooklyn Bridge Park fame to add turf on their formerly brick patio, in addition to setting up a swing and play structure.
The Federal-style townhouse on Cranberry Street was the Castorini family’s home in the 1987 film starring Cher and Nicholas Cage.
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Schumer, whose husband is chef Chris Fischer, says she’s moving to be closer to their 5-year-old’s school. “He got into a good school and we’re too lazy to commute 45 minutes to take our son to school every day,” she told The Wall Street Journal. She also said that between herself, Fischer, and their son, her family didn’t really need 5,600 square feet of space. “This is a home that is just ready for more people,” she told the paper. Fair enough?
The 19th-century home has 30 windows, some shown in this listing photo, which is great for light, but maybe not so much for privacy.
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