Picture: David Levenson/Getty Images Hanya Yanagihara is making quite a few relocations. The author of A Little Life is leaving T magazine, where she’s presently editor-in-chief, to “pursue chances in theater.” She is likewise, we saw, trying to offer her Soho one-bedroom.
Yanagihara is asking $2.2 million for her place at 95 Greene Street, a six-story cast-iron apartment. In essentially staged listing images, the floorboards are black and sleek, the walls are white, and, in lieu of a wall dividing the bedroom from the living and dining, there are custom double-sided bookshelves just shy of the roughly 13-foot ceiling. When The Guardian came by for a home trip in 2017, Yanagihara had actually filled the apartment or condo with her collection of more than 12,000 titles alphabetized by author. (“Anybody who organizes their books by color doesn’t really care what remains in the books,” she informed the outlet.) The combination was likewise warmer: A pink wall was covered with art, and sculptures and antiques Yanagihara had actually picked up during her numerous journeys also added interest.
Something the home has going for it today, even in the sanitized and staged photos: a cedar-lined bathroom, which has actually been outfitted with a soaking tub and separate shower.
The existing listing rate is an 8 percent drop from the preliminary asking in February however still about double the $1.069 million Yanagihara paid back in 2009. She may be hoping to move it since she paid $3.2 million in late 2023 for an 11th-floor, 4,000-square-foot co-op in a converted factory in Wanderer.
The bookshelves in Hanya Yanagihara’s one-bedroom, as seen in this listing photo, provide a sense of division to the space. Image: Brown Harris Stevens 
The black floorboards in Yanagihara’s Soho apartment or condo, as seen in this listing image, are quite glossy. Photo: Brown Harris Stevens 
Yanagihara had a much warmer palette in her home than the black-and-white virtual staging seen in this listing photo. Photo: Brown Harris Stevens
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