Whoopi Goldberg's House (former)

Whoopi Goldberg broke through with a 1984 one-woman Broadway show, then won an Oscar for Ghost. In 2007 she became moderator of The View, which tapes in Manhattan.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this building to 1893 to 1894 and credits the firm Buchman & Deisler, working for developer Leon Tannenbaum. It went up for stores, in brick, cast iron, stone, and terra cotta.

Artists lived illegally in SoHo's industrial lofts through the 1960s. The city legalized certified artists' lofts in January 1971, and the Cast-Iron Historic District followed in August 1973, Urban Omnibus records.

City deed records show Goldberg, under her legal name Caryn Johnson, paying $1.648M for part of this floor in October 2006. Her later sale covers both the front and rear units.

She sold in January 2010 to Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer. The deed record and CityRealty agree on $3.07M, well under the $3.9M The Real Deal said she had sought in 2009.

Lerer filled the loft with pop art and had it on the market at about $7.4M in February 2017, 6sqft reported. The deed record shows it closed at $5.3625M in late 2018.

13 years after she left, her name still sold the story. CityRealty's roundup of June 2023 closings billed the next resale, $6,152,500, under Goldberg's name.