If you’re looking for an iconic piece of NYC history — and have a cool $7.25 million to spare — Bob Dylan’s former townhouse in Turtle Bay Gardens at 242 E 49th St is up for grabs.
The group of rowhouses — on East 48th and 49th Streets between Second and Third Avenues — has been home to a plethora of creative types over the years, and Dylan’s old residence was also home to Stephen Sondheim, Mary Tyler Moore, and E. B. White.
See inside Bob Dylan’s former NYC townhouse
A quick look inside the five-bedroom, five-and-a-half bathroom home and it’s easy to see why so many fell in love with the 1899 space: sprawling floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, cozy fireplaces, French doors, and a private and shared garden, to name just a few amenities. Have a look at the residence below and try not to fall in love.
The folk crooner moved in to the space in the ’80s, but ultimately sold it in 2005. Ironically, the five-story house comes on the market just as Dylan’s biopic, A Complete Unknown, gears up for a release on Christmas Day. The highly-anticipated film focuses on the singer’s arrival to NYC in the ’60s and transforms the folk scene — 20 years before he ends up at Turtle Bay Gardens.
Timothée Chalamet will assume the role of Dylan in A Complete Unknown, and he’s been training for the project of a lifetime for the past five years. “Once I was in it, there was no coming back. I was fully in the Church of Bob,” he said, according to Searchlight Pictures.
To learn more about the singer’s old digs, visit the listing on Sotheby’s International Realty. If you’re looking to head to the movies for a showing of A Complete Unknown, grab tickets to early screenings across NYC.