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Steve Buscemi is moving on in Park Slope. The actor and his filmmaker wife, Jo Andres, sold their brownstone at 460 Fifth Street for $4.99 million, according to a deed posted Monday. The deal seems to have been made off market, and the buyers are a pair of family trusts.
The house is a cartoonishly typical three-story brownstone two blocks off Prospect Park by Seventh Avenue — an area that, unfathomably today, wasn’t as fancy when the couple bought it in 1997, not long after Buscemi’s memorable roles in Fargo and Reservoir Dogs. It’s not clear from records just how much they paid, but they took on a mortgage of $463,200.
Google Maps shows the Buscemi family brownstone in a row of other classic brownstones on 5th Street at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope.
Photo: Google Maps
A Brooklyn native, Buscemi actually seemed to want to live in Brooklyn. He and Andres moved from within the neighborhood (an apartment at 409 9th Street where Buscemi had posed for photos), and the actor periodically made headlines for his neighborhood comings and goings — he was in “Page Six” when he appeared at the local coffee shop in bandages after a bar fight, scaring neighbors; joined a protest against the closures of local firehouses; and was a dedicated stooper, leaving out finds that entranced neighbors. (A blogger started chronicling his Buscemi stoop items, including a Boardwalk Empire hat.) But Buscemi never seemed to mind the recognition; a few years ago, he handed out Halloween candy in costume as the “Hello, Fellow Kids” meme.
Buscemi’s departure follows a wave of other celebrities leaving their townhomes for a more gated high-rise experience (though we have no idea where he’s going next). It also raises the question, Is John Turturro, often spotted on Prospect Park West pacing in a very Turturro way, Park Slope’s last remaining A-lister?