The Breakfast Club host Angela Yee just dropped $2.8 million on a brownstone home in Brooklyn. She tells The New York Post, “It was a pandemic buy.”
What We Know:
- The radio star’s new home was formerly asking $3.2 million last June. The building was built in the late-19th-century and is located on MacDonough Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. The 21-foot wide brownstone measures 4,000 square feet and includes seven bedrooms and 3½ bathrooms.
- The home’s original features show floor-to-ceiling windows, 12-foot ceilings on the parlor floor, six marble fireplaces, lattice bordered hardwood floors, and the original staircase and pocket doors. In addition, there’s a 27-foot front yard and a 40-foot backyard filled with a custom pergola, bluestone pavers, and irrigated landscaping.
- In response to purchasing her now 3rd home in the Brooklyn borough in seven years, she says, “I’m always working and traveling, but during the pandemic, I finally had the time to look for a home.”
- Yee’s first home in Brooklyn was a two-family Bed-Stuy brownstone where she lives on the top two floors and rents out the rest. Her second purchase served as an investment condo in Williamsburg at the Austin Nichols House for $800,000 that she rents.
- Yee thinks it’s important for women to start investing in real estate. “I would say, don’t wait to invest in a home,” Yee said. “There is nothing more empowering than owning real estate.”
- She tells the NY Post that she even plans to add a full extension to her new brownstone before moving in. Meanwhile, her professional career is also expanding as she launches a new celebrity interview streaming show, “Established with Angela Yee” on Fox Soul.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Covid-19 pandemic has “delivered a stunning gut-punch to the New York City luxury real estate market, applying downward pressure at a rate that surpasses both the 2008 financial crisis and the period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.”
