By Gus Saltonstall
You now have a chance to live in the same Upper West Side townhouse where Macaulay Culkin evaded bad guys in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.” The catch? It will cost you nearly $7 million.
The townhouse at 51 West 95th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus, is currently listed for $6.7 million. The home comes with four bedrooms, five bathrooms, and none of the traps featured in the iconic 1992 holiday movie.
“It (the townhouse) is so timeless, it is in fact the real address used in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York where Kevin McCallister aka Macaulay Culkin evades the bandits at his Uncles’ townhouse,” reads a Zillow listing for the address.
The building was constructed in 1900 and designed by Martin V.B. Ferdon. It comes with walnut floors, bay windows, two private outdoor spaces, a garden floor, and more.
It sold for $4.7 million in 2009, and most recently dropped its initial asking price from $7.65 million to $6.7 million, according to records.
It has been on the market for nearly 100 days.
Here’s a clip from Home Alone 2, where the townhouse is featured.
Editor’s Note: It has been pointed out to us that the NYC townhouse lent its facade and address to the movie, while the interior scenes were filmed in a studio in Universal City, California.
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The address may be the same but the entire sequence was shot on the backlot at Universal Studios, Hollywood. Not one frame of that movie was filmed in this location. It’s is a dishonest listing on behalf of Zillow and the article should reflect that.
Thank you, noted.
Zillow never said the movie was shot there, just that it was the address used.
Thank you, but to clarify again: not one frame of this movie was filmed here. It’s an address. That’s all. The facade was located on the Universal backlot until 2008, when it burned down. So even that doesn’t exist anymore. The Zillow post is just trying to capitalize on the rare occurrence of the address actually existing. Normally addresses in TV and film don’t exist. Example: Lucy and Ricky Ricardo lived at an UES address that is actually the East River.
“Harry, I’ve reached the top!”
Similar to the “house” made famous by Mrs. Doubtfire. “Set” in San Francisco, the house was a composite of five different houses.