Brooklyn Heights is more closely associated with wholesome “The Cosby Show” than HBO’s racy “Girls.” But Lena Dunham, creator of the edgy HBO series, has just bought a pad in the upscale brownstone Brooklyn nabe.
According to blog The Realestalker, Dunham’s snapped up an 800-square-foot, one bedroom co-op, in a “large and dignified, pre-war doorman building” on Hicks Street in the leafy area.
“Property records and other online documentation do reveal she coughed up $500,000 for an approximately 800-square-foot, one bedroom and one bathroom co-operative apartment … just around the corner from the Clark Street subway station on a fairly narrow but urbanely charming tree-lined street,” the Web site says.
When Dunham recently revealed in interviews that she was planning on moving to Brooklyn, it was assumed she’d head to one of the hipster hoods where her shows takes place, like Williamsburg or Bushwick.
But she was quoted in The New York Times on Sunday saying that she’d chosen Brooklyn Heights. “We lived there all through my high-school career, so I have an intense attachment to it,” she explained. “Other people think of Brooklyn Heights as where you become elderly, but I think of it as where you try pot for the first time.”
Dunham had reportedly been living with her parents in Manhattan before she bought her own digs. She attended the private Saint Ann’s High School, just blocks from her new address.
The “Girls” creator and star has weathered some backlash for playing a Michigan transplant who’s constantly facing financial ruin after being cut off by her parents when she and the cast of “Girls” are in reality the progeny of super connected New Yorkers. Along with Dunham, whose mother is photographer Laurie Simmons, the series stars Brian Williams’ daughter Alison, David Mamet’s daughter Zosia and Jemima Kirke, whose dad was a drummer for classic rockers Bad Company.
Dunham’s previous, semi-autobiographical indie movie “Tiny Furniture” was about her moving back into her parents’ loft after college.