You Could Make a Movie in This 1885 Park Slope ‘McMansion’

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( TUESDAY, MAY 23 great rooms [A Glorious 1885 Park Slope ‘McMansion’]( In filmmakers Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi’s brownstone, “there are all these stories within the walls.” Photo: Annie Schlechter Twenty years ago, Andrew Rossi attended a rough-cut screening of the documentary Startup.com at the brownstone owned by the filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus on the Upper West Side. “I just thought that was such a wonderful way to work,” Rossi recalls. “To live in a brownstone and to be able to work there, too — such an intimate and creatively fertile environment.” Rossi is a film and television writer and director whose The Andy Warhol Diaries streamed on Netflix last year. He’s married to another filmmaker, Kate Novack, whose André Leon Talley documentary, The Gospel According to André, came out in 2018. These days, after a decade in a South Williamsburg loft that they left because of ongoing repairs to the building, they live with their two children in an 1885 brownstone in Park Slope, where they also work. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now](to save over 60% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [One of the Last Gilded Age Mansions on Fifth Avenue Is for Sale A Wall Street divorce brings it back on the market at $72.5 million.]( [How to Turn a Church Full of Cats and Raccoons Into a Coveted Wedding Venue “It was a very non–New York City wildlife smell.”]( By Clio Chang [Can I Afford to Live Like This? We asked young New Yorkers about their dream futures. Then we calculated exactly how much each would cost.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](link.nymag.com/manage/588/optout-curbed?email={EMAIL}&hash=6c53b63a8e3fad70ad4ef13004527437¶m=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved