325 West End Avenue (Google Maps). Inset: Ellie Kemper c/o Flickr user JJ Duncan
Ellie Kemper, whose character in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” restarts her life in “East Dogmouth” after living in a cult, can now make a new start herself: she’s sold her Upper West Side co-op apartment for $3.3 million, reports the New York Post, having first listed it in March.
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Kemper and her husband, Michael Koman — a former writer for “Conan O’Brien” and executive producer of “Nathan for You” — bought the prewar apartment for $2.8 million in 2016. The “classic six” is located at 325 West End Ave., between 75th and 76th streets, notably quite close to fellow UWS celeb Tina Fey, co-creator of “Kimmy Schmidt.”
The three-bedroom, three-bath apartment has 10-foot-high ceilings as well as a “grand entrance gallery, restored French doors, large bay windows, herringbone hardwood floors, a chef’s eat-in kitchen” and views of Japanese maple trees. The 13-story terracotta-brick Renaissance Revival building, in the West End-Collegiate Historic District, was built in 1915-16 and converted to co-op in 1972.
We’re not sure where Kemper and Koman are off to next, but in cinematic history, the building was the home of characters Joanna and Walter Eberhart in The Stepford Wives; they decamped to live in the “picture-perfect” Fairfield County town of Stepford, Connecticut. Hopefully, Kemper and Koman won’t end up living in a cult of domestic robots!
Maria Manuche, of Compass, shared the listing with Clare Cukier.
I care about this why?
Has she lived there 20 years? No.
Is Ms Kemper ever going to be as famous, or accomplished, as Tina Fey? No.
Certainly not as famous as Lauren Bacall, and both of her husbands, who both predeceased her after living with her at 1 West 72nd Street.
Does anyone really care that her husband wrote for Conan O’Brian? No.
Ms Kemper spent the Trump years (so far) living on the UWS with her husband in a nice apartment; she and her husband moved. This describes many couples.
i can’t imagine spending any of this finite life reading an article and then ranting that you don’t care about its contents.
good humor:
What makes you imagine that I read more than the headline of this article? (There is an answer if you read my comment carefully.)
However, I did read the original piece some months ago announcing that someone (a Ms Kemper + husband) who had purchased a nice apartment on the UWS in 2016 was moving/selling.
Did you think, beyond “how can I make my comment a putdown” before you posted? Clearly no, you didn’t.
I found the old fogey!
She was a great neighbor. Saw in the park with her kids many times.
A “classic six” has two bedrooms, not three. It has a formal dining room and a maid’s room in addition to the two bedrooms , living room and kitchen. Just saying. You can convert the dining room into a bedroom, but if it’s a six, it’s a six.