Matt Damon’s Brooklyn Heights move-in date on Tuesday resulted in his new street being shut down, Page Six has reported. The tabloid said a crane brought the actor’s furniture up over 14 stories and put some trees on his new terrace at a luxury building called the Standish. An anonymous resident in the area said, “We call the building the Standoffish because it is a little bit of Hollywood dumped in the middle of the more low-key Brooklyn Heights,” noting that John Krasinski and Emily Blunt live there too.
“He closed off the street all day and parked an enormous big red crane right in the middle of the street,” the resident continued. “There was no sign of Matt, but he had a huge team of contractors and there were shrubs, decking and huge crates filled with stuff going up in the air to the terrace. We were all waiting for the grand piano to be wheeled out.”
By contrast, the high-profile real estate maneuvering that’s occupied the New York Post’s attention in recent weeks has been quieter. A source told the tabloid last week that Alec Baldwin “started shopping [his Greenwich Village penthouse] in February but has been actively shopping it during the pandemic as well.” Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes reportedly just sold in the same neighborhood. The New York developer Harry Macklowe, the Post reported on Tuesday, has stopped paying the billionaire New York developer Mort Zuckerman his rent at the GM Building. The rich and famous have been doing their usual dealings—Damon was just a little more visible about it.
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