Emily Blunt and John Krasinski Join Matt Damon In BK Heights

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — The Standish apartments on Columbia Heights is becoming quite the celebrity hotspot. Just weeks after news broke that Matt Damon bought a record-breaking penthouse in the luxury building, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski have moved in, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The couple, who had previously lived in Park Slope, spent $11 million on two units to take up the entire eighth floor. They will join Matt Damon and his wife, who spent $16.7 millionon the penthouse last month, setting a record for the most expensive sale in Brooklyn.

The Wall Street Journal found that Blunt and Krasinski's sale officially closed last year and is still one of the largest in the borough.

The former office star and today's Mary Poppins had sold their Park Slope townhouse for $6.5 million last year. The couple told the Wall Street Journal at the time that they weren't using the home enough since buying it in late 2016.

"We've been nomads for a while now, but that's the nature of the business," Krasinski told the Journal. "The house is so special—someone who can spend every night there should have it."

The couple had bought the historic Fourth Street limestone for $6 million the year before and oversaw an extensive renovation before putting it back on the market.

Their new home in The Standish, though, also has a significant history.

The luxury complex was home to Clark Kent's fictional apartment in DC Comics and mentioned in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman." The real-life building was first built in 1903 and was later owned by the Jehovah's Witnesses, until they sold it in 2007.

Developers DDG and real estate firm Westbrook Partners took over the building and turned it into the most recent slate of condos, which went on sale in September 2016. By February this year, 85 percent of the units had already been sold.

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