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Truman Capote’s BK Mansion Up For Sale
  Truman Capote’s immaculate 11-bedroom mansion at 70 Willow St. in Brooklyn Heights went on the market today for the low price of only $18 million. This is the third time the home has been on the market in the past 70 years and is likely to break sales records in the borough and be the most expensive townhouse in its history, which is currently $12 million. With 11 fireplaces, parking for four cars, a mural copied from the Kennedy White House, a back porch and a garden like something out of a Southern estate, the Brooklyn Heights mansion is touted as the finest house in the borough's finest neighborhood. "It's like living in a country estate in the middle of New York City," said Karen Heyman, the Sotheby's broker selling the property to the NY Daily News. "It takes your breath away the minute you walk in."
The townhouse is where Capote wrote some of his best works like Breakfast at Tiffany’s and his famed nonfiction novel In Cold Blood. The townhouse was built in 1839 and is now owned by a media entrepreneur, the house was owned in the 1950s by Broadway art director Oliver Smith, who designed the famous sets for "Guys and Dolls" and "West Side Story." Capote said he got Smith blitzed on martinis to persuade his friend to rent him the house's garden apartment from 1955 to 1965.
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