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Selena Gomez, The Weeknd Move Into Greenwich Village Love Loft, Reports Say

"They've both been very gracious to the neighbors," according to Entertainment Tonight.

GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY — Nothing like a $16,000-per-month love loft in the Village to take your celebrity union next-level. Top 40 it couple Selena Gomez, 25, and Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, 27, are reportedly co-renting an absurdly expensive three-bedroom (complete with designer puppy) in an old, landmarked, 19th-century printing house turned Christian Science church turned playground for the filthy rich on MacDougal Street — "the first and last doorman loft condominium offered within one block of Washington Square Park," according to online real-estate listings.

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Gomez is living in the loft full time while she shoots scenes for Woody Allen's mysterious new film project downtown, according to Entertainment Tonight. Her boyfriend of eight months (ish) is currently on tour, but reportedly stops in between shows.

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Pictured: "Selena Gomez, right, and Abel Tesfaye, known professionally as The Weeknd, attend the Harper's BAZAAR 'Icons by Carine Roitfeld' party at The Plaza Hotel on Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in New York." (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

"They’ve both been very gracious to the neighbors and seem very happy with their living arrangement," a source close to the couple tells Entertainment Tonight.

Skinny, quaint MacDougal Street, meanwhile, has become a total birdfeeder for the city's paparazzos:

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ET's inside source claims the Los Angeles-based couple is "definitely immersing" themselves in the "nitty gritty of New York" during their temporary stay in Greenwich Village.

"Nitty gritty," in this case, meaning cutesy NYC couples' destinations like coffee shops, ice cream parlors, other couples' wedding shoots, candlelit dinners at Carbone just down the street, his-and-hers leather stores, high-end puppy mills and New York Fashion Week parties at the Plaza Hotel. Welcome to the new bohemia!

Before the red-brick MacDougal Lofts building became a destination for young Hollywood, it lived a long and contentious life of constant renovations and repurposings since its early days as a publishing warehouse in the 1890s. But its latest revamp, in 2008, returned it so faithfully to its original form that the developer reportedly earned the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation's "prestigious" annual Village Award. To this day, the building hosts a Christian Science reading room on its ground floor — a relic from its conversion to a church in the 1920s.

Another three-bedroom condo inside (pictured below) is currently asking just shy of $6 million.





According to Realtor.com, the loft for sale has a "large entry foyer"; a "spectacular Great Room with a beautiful limestone gas fireplace, [11-foot] ceilings and captivating walls of windows"; an "open kitchen" with "oversized granite topped center island"; a master suite with floor-to-ceiling windows "overlooking MacDougal Alley"; and a "large marble and granite master bath" featuring a "double vanity with Dornbracht fixtures, soaking tub and glass enclosed stall steam shower and walk-in closet." Read the full listing and see more pics here.


Loft photos courtesy of Realtor.com

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