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New York Post
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Bob Dylan's first NYC apartment building asks $8.25M
Bob Dylan was a complete unknown when he moved to New York in 1961 and into a third-floor Greenwich Village walkup at 161 W. Fourth St. that can now be yours, along with the building it's in, for $8.25 million. An Avison Young team of Brandon Polakoff, David Shalom and Ryan McGuirl are marketing the completely renovated four-story 4,597-square-foot former tenement on behalf of the seller, Icon Realty Management, The Post has learned. With the release of the still-buzzy Oscar-nominated Dylan biopic, 'A Complete Unknown,' the red brick building with 20 feet of frontage between Sixth and Seventh avenues is attracting worldwide attention. Advertisement 13 Dylan spent his earliest New York days in this Greenwich Village building. Getty Images 13 The building is receiving renewed interest thanks to the buzzy 'A Complete Unknown' film that was based on his life. WireImage 13 This famed album cover was photographed right around the corner from this now-for-sale building. Getty Images Advertisement 13 The edifice stands in a prime Manhattan neighborhood. William Miller/Icon Realty Management 13 Perhaps a true fan can soon rent the exact unit, 3R, that Dylan called home. Icon Realty Management Although this edifice was not actually shown in the film that starred Timothée Chalamet — because it was filmed in New Jersey — Dylan's fictitious apartment was very much front and center, as many scenes took place in and around the flat. In real life, however, Dylan wrote his earliest songs while living in the building and was photographed with his then-girlfriend right around the corner on Jones Street for the cover of his breakout album, 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' Advertisement Dylan lived in the third-floor rear apartment, No. 3R, from 1961 to 1964. In his 2004 memoir, 'Chronicles: Volume One,' Dylan wrote that he paid $60 a month. That's about $626 in today's figures. 'It wasn't much, just two rooms above Bruno's spaghetti parlor, next door to the local record store and furniture supply store on the other side. The apartment had a tiny bedroom, more like a large closet, and a kitchenette, a living room with a fireplace and two windows that looked out over fire escapes and small courtyards,' he wrote. To protect his real-life girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, Dylan had the filmmakers change her name so actress Elle Fanning portrayed the fictitious Sylvie Russo. At 29 years old, Chalamet, a Hell's Kitchen native, missed becoming the youngest Oscar winner for that role this year, losing to Adrien Brody in 'The Brutalist' — who has held that title since 2002 for his performance in 'The Pianist,' when he was also 29. Advertisement 13 A light-filled apartment played front and center in 'A Complete Unknown,' but it wasn't the same unit Dylan lived in during his tenancy. Searchlight Pictures 13 Dylan recalled his apartment in his 2002 memoir. Icon Realty Management 13 Today, the building has fine condo-level touches. Icon Realty Management 13 Units come with compact kitchens that still offer good storage. Icon Realty Management 13 The apartments come with washer/dryers. Icon Realty Management The building is also 'free wheelin' as all five residential units are considered 'free market' and not subject to any rent regulation. Property taxes come in around $72,000 per year. The building is also in the 'protected' Tax Class 2B, so its assessed value can't rise more than 8% per year or by 30% over five years. The apartments include a spacious three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment and four, one-bedroom, one-bathroom units that were all renovated in 2020 to condo-level standards. Those are far above the finishes at the time Dylan was picking his six-string, and jotting down lyrics to 'Blowin' in the Wind' and 'The Times They Are A-Changin'' According to the brokers, design touches today include bleached oak flooring, stainless steel appliances, marble countertops, exposed brick accents and in-unit washer/dryers. There's even a private rear outdoor terrace for one lucky resident. Advertisement 13 An apartment in the building has access to this spacious patio. Icon Realty Management 13 A bedroom inside one of the units. Icon Realty Management 13 Bathrooms in the building are also their own tony retreats. Icon Realty Management Rents now run from $4,800 for the cheapest one-bedroom to $8,950 for the three-bedroom. There are also two stores, Cherry Boxxx and Hamlet's Vintage, that each pays around $8,750 per month. Advertisement 'The property's iconic address not only offers immediate access to the city's vibrant residential and retail markets but also carries the cultural legacy of Bob Dylan and the artistic spirit of Greenwich Village,' said Polakoff. 'With its premier location, fully fair-market status and renewed cultural relevance, this asset stands as a rare and powerful investment opportunity.' The 1910 building was designated part of the Greenwich Village Historic District in 1969; seller Icon bought the building in 2015 for $6 million. Bob Dylan could not be reached to see if he would buy the property. His former childhood home in Hibbing, Minnesota is currently owned by a fan.
New York Times
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Tracy Schwarz, Mainstay of the New Lost City Ramblers, Dies at 86
Tracy Schwarz, the last surviving member of the New Lost City Ramblers, an influential folk trio whose reverential approach to the lost music of the rural South stood in contrast to more commercial acts like the Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary, died on March 29 in Elkins, He was 86. His death, in a hospice facility, was announced by his wife, Virginia Hawker. The New Lost City Ramblers were formed in New York in 1958, riding the crest of the folk revival. They performed at the first Newport Folk Festival the next year and counted Bob Dylan — whom they jammed with at Gerdes Folk City, the storied Greenwich Village folk club, in the early 1960s — as a fan. 'Everything about them appealed to me — their style, their singing, their sound,' Mr. Dylan wrote in his 2004 memoir, 'Chronicles: Volume One.' 'Their songs ran the gamut in style, everything from mountain ballads to fiddle tunes and railway blues.' He added, 'I didn't know they were replicating everything they did off old 78 records, but what would it have mattered anyway?' Mr. Schwarz, who was skilled on the fiddle, accordion, guitar and banjo, joined Mike Seeger, a half brother of the folk luminary Pete Seeger, and the guitarist John Cohen in the Ramblers after another original member, Tom Paley, left in 1962. Even though Mr. Schwarz was New York born and the son of an investment banker, 'there was just something that was down-to-earth country about Tracy,' Mike Seeger was quoted as saying in the 2010 book 'Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival,' by Ray Allen. 'He just kind of has a feeling for the music, it was in his bones.' The Ramblers modeled themselves on the traditional string bands that flourished in the lush hollows of southern Appalachia and the back roads of the South in the 1920s and '30s. They were equal parts entertainers and folklorists, and taught audiences about the history of the music that set the foundation for bluegrass and country, as played by the likes of Dock Boggs, the Carter family, Cousin Emmy and the Skillet Lickers. The Ramblers 'carried out a mammoth rescue operation,' the music critic Eric Winter once wrote, 'snatching from the jaws of a jukebox society and a swamp of banality some of the finest music in the U.S. tradition.' Daniel Tracy Schwarz was born on Nov. 13, 1938, in Manhattan, the third of four children of Hamilton Schwarz, an investment banker, and Constance Schwarz, a classically trained pianist. Spending summers in rural Vermont, he learned to appreciate the rhythms and culture of country life. 'It was almost Appalachian,' he was quoted as saying in 'Gone to the Country.' As a child in New Jersey and Connecticut, he searched out rustic music on the radio and started playing guitar. After graduating from the Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island, he studied Russian at Georgetown, and fell into the thriving folk revival scene in Washington. It was there that he got to know Mr. Seeger, a neighbor. Mr. Schwarz dropped out of college to join the Army; stationed in West Germany, he performed with an acoustic country band in his off-duty hours. He was nearing the end of his military stint when Mr. Seeger reached asked if he would replace Mr. Paley. The Ramblers continued to tour and record throughout the 1960s. Mr. Schwarz also joined Mr. Seeger in a side project, the Strange Creek Singers, which released an album in 1972. In the 1970s and '80s, he recorded with Dewey Balfa, a noted Cajun fiddler. Starting in the late 1970s, he toured and recorded with his first wife, Eloise (King) Schwarz, who played guitar and sang, and his son Peter, a multi-instrumentalist, as Tracy's Family Band. The Ramblers disbanded in 1979 but occasionally reunited. Their '20th Anniversary Concert' album, from a 1978 performance featuring Elizabeth Cotten, Pete Seeger and others, was nominated for a Grammy Award for best traditional folk recording when it was belatedly released in 1986. They earned another Grammy nomination for their first new recording in two decades, 'There Ain't No Way Out,' released in 1997. In the late 1980s, Ms. Schwarz began a long collaboration with his second wife, a singer billed as Ginny Hawker. They released two albums, 'Good Songs for Hard Times' (2000) and 'Draw Closer' (2004). While largely focusing on the music of others, Mr. Schwarz was also a songwriter. In 2008, his song 'Poor Old Dirt Farmer,' recorded by Levon Helm, was nominated for an Americana Music Association Award for song of the year. In addition to his wife and his son Peter, Mr. Schwarz is survived by another son, Robert; a daughter, Sallyann Schwarz Koontz; a sister, Natalie Lowell; and three grandchildren. Whatever the band, whatever the year, Mr. Schwarz's commitment to the sounds of the past never wavered. 'The music was just so beautiful the way it was,' he said in a 1986 interview with The Burlington Free Press of Vermont. 'Our inspiration was just to play it exactly that same way.'
