A listing photo shows how 575A Leonard Street blends into the neighborhood but has plate-glass windows (installed in a renovation by noroof) that make interiors modern and bright.
Photo: Compass
CJ Hendry and Lewis Cook, the married artists behind Space Club, are selling their Greenpoint brownstone. In 2020, the couple spent $1.65 million on a fixer-upper on Leonard Street near the northeast point of McCarren Park. They pulled out the old wood moldings and wallpaper to create a bleached-white, museum-esque four-bedroom home that their brokers are now listing as a $4.85 million “work of residential art.”
Hendry and Cook wanted their home to be a rest from visually busy day jobs. “I didn’t want to look at our art or other art,” Hendry told Architectural Digest in 2023. “We need a break from color.” Thus they settled on a palette she described as “greige” and a design she compared to a “minimal, Los Angeles–esque aesthetic” in which the quirkiest feature is the home’s old spiral staircase — even there, the old wood railing got slathered in a thick coat of white paint. The Brooklyn-based firm noroof put what it calls an oval “oculus” skylight over the staircase, cut Big Windows into the rear, added a roof-deck, and finished the garden level in tile and turned it into a playroom. Their broker, Yuval Vidal, says renovated single-family homes at this scale — 4,000 square feet — are hard to come by in this part of Greenpoint: “There’s nothing else. Just this one. That’s it.”
The listing is so minimally furnished that it can be hard to recognize it as Hendry’s, but Space Club parents will recognize the cloth hammock in the playroom. Also in the playroom, there are also several “Plaid” drawings from Hendry’s 2023 show in a space designed to work as a kind of indoor playground for adults. It never closed, and the rest is history.
A listing photo shows the garden-level playroom, with CJ Hendry’s “Plaid” series behind a hammock like the ones that hang at Space Club locations.
Photo: Compass
Hendry and Cook didn’t respond to a request for comment on the sale. Cook now runs a mini-empire of his own, selling limited-edition prints under the name Andy Blank, and Space Club now has three locations with hundreds of members. That could give them options. Perhaps they never got over the building’s central problem. “I thought I wanted a 25-foot-wide house, but this one was very narrow at 16 feet wide,” Hendry told Architectural Digest. The couple’s architect, on a page dedicated to the house, refers to the project as “Skinny Leonard.” And on a house tour that Hendry shared on Instagram, her mother, Judy, acknowledged it was a “very, very narrow house,” but she didn’t list other drawbacks. “I enjoy it as much as the kids,” she said.
A listing shot shows how drastically the home transformed, with picture windows in a sleek kitchen overlooking a landscaped yard.
Photo: Compass
Similar colors in a Space Club location in Fort Greene.
Photo: Courtesy of Space Club
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