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Standish, a 12-fl oor Beaux-Arts tower between
Clark and Pierrepont streets that opened in 1903 as
the Standish Arms Hotel. File photo by Gregory P. Mango
WELCOME, MATT: Matt Damon is the proud new owner of a
penthouse at the very top of Brooklyn Heights condo complex
The Standish, according to reports.
Damon’s
new digs
Actor reportedly buys Bklyn
condominium at record price
BY JULIANNE CUBA
Actor Matt Damon is reportedly settling down in
Brooklyn Heights — inside a penthouse unit at the
top of a swanky Columbia Heights building.
The star of such memorable fl icks as “Good
Will Hunting,” “The Bourne Identity,” and “The
Martian” on Dec. 27 fi nalized his purchase of the
$16.75-million, six-bedroom pad after going into
contract on the apartment in September 2017, according
to a New York Post report .
Last year, real-estate nerds went into a tizzy at
the prospect of Damon buying the penthouse at a
then-reported cost of $16.645 million, which at the
time would have been the highest price commanded
by a Kings County residence.
But in the months since, another deep-pocketed
buyer reportedly outspent Damon by going into
contract on a penthouse inside the fast-rising Quay
Tower at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 for more
than $20 million — which will be the highest price
ever paid for a piece of Kings County residential
real estate once the deal expected to close early next
year is done, according to a rep for the building.
Still, the price Damon reportedly paid for his
new home is enough to earn it the title of Brooklyn’s
most-expensive residence for now, surpassing the
previous record setter — a Cobble Hill townhouse
that sold for $15.5 million in 2015, according to records
— by roughly $1.25 million.
The sky-high space is at the very top of The