which first reported the listing<\/a>, also noted that a lender, TD Bank, sued Boss and Rottblatt last year to recover money owed on a $3.2 million mortgage. The debt on the property is currently around $3.9 million, with Rottblatt alleging that her signature on the mortgage documents is forged \u2014 an allegation that Boss denied, according to reports.<\/p>\nBoss and Rottblatt bought the home from Thurman for around $5 million in 2005, who owned it for around a year. Thurman, in turn, had purchased the townhouse from\u00a0restaurateur Lynn Wagenknecht, who co-founded The Odeon in Tribeca with her then-husband, Balthazar restaurateur Keith McNally and his brother Brian.\u00a0Wagenknecht purchased the townhouse in 1994, the year she and McNally divorced.<\/p>\n
Selling the house, Boss told Gimme Shelter, \u201cis a way out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going through a protracted divorce \u2026 It has been going on before COVID and everything was slow,\u201d he said. \u201cMy wife had not agreed to sell the house until now because we need to. And I\u2019m too old to live there with all the stairs,\u201d he said, adding he turns 86 on Sunday. Rottblatt is 81. Boss also confirmed there was debt on the townhouse from the mortgage and interest, but could not confirm the exact amount.<\/p>\n
At 20 feet wide, the six-bedroom, 6.5-bath home is 4,160 square feet. It\u2019s in the heart of the Gramercy Park Historic District, on a street known as \u201cblock beautiful\u201d as an ode to its townhouses.\u00a0\u201cThe townhouse is flooded with light because it is surrounded by low rises,\u201d said a source familiar with the home.<\/p>\n
The red brick residence is anchored by a parlor-level chef\u2019s kitchen that opens to a terrace and a garden. This floor also boasts a living and dining room.<\/p>\n
A fireplace warms this bedroom, just in time for the cold weather. Emily Cullum Photography<\/p>\n
There\u2019s even room for a home office. Emily Cullum Photography<\/p>\n
The dwelling was restored and renovated around 15 years ago. Original details include four woodburning fireplaces with marble mantels. There are also wide-plank pine floors, pocket shutters, original moldings and modern upgrades including \u201cwhole-house\u201d radiant heat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The primary bedroom takes up an entire floor and is sun-lit from tall front and rear windows. The suite includes a home office or den.\u00a0The top floor features an additional three bedrooms, while the lower floor features a guest bedroom and a rec room.<\/p>\n
Despite the grandeur, Thurman, who Boss knows, never lived in the townhouse.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would have been impossible,\u201d Boss said, adding that his favorite attribute of the dwelling is the natural light that flows in. \u201cToo many paparazzi.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the time Thurman bought the home, Boss said, she was getting divorced from Ethan Hawke and they were living around the corner at 1 Lexington Ave.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe bought the house just in case she\u2019d lose the condo, but I couldn\u2019t see her living there,\u201d he said, adding that her father Robert Thurman once held events for Tibet House at the Metropolitan Pavilion.<\/p>\n
For her part, Rottblatt enjoyed the atmosphere, telling Gimme \u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful block, a nice, peaceful neighborhood. There\u2019s just a beautiful vibe when you come in and it gets light from both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n
The listing brokers are Matthew Lesser and Tori Landon, of Leslie Garfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19th-century Gramercy Park townhouse once owned by the actress Uma Thurman has hit the market for $11.5…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":325427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,14471,59794,5418,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4329,10204,41012,16979,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-325426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-gimme-shelter","10":"tag-gramercy-park","11":"tag-luxury-real-estate","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-real-estate","19":"tag-residential-real-estate","20":"tag-townhouses","21":"tag-uma-thurman","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115421259066086622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}