By Mark Hallum
A Douglaston mansion is up for rent this summer for the price of a Manhattan one-bedroom apartment.
Once owned by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the home at 122 Grosvenor St. sold in 2015 for $2.4 million and is now up for a six-month lease from July 1 to Dec. 31. The owners are asking $5,500 per month from a lucky renter.
Cuomo lived in the Queens home in the early 1990s before joining President Bill Clinton’s campaign team in 1993. The location is a step well above the house where he grew up in Holliswood, owned by his father Mario, the late governor of New York.
According to Curbed, this is the last home Andrew Cuomo owned in Queens. Oasis NYC estimates the house was built around 1920.
The mansion features six bedrooms, four bathrooms, outdoor lounge space and close proximity to the waterfront.
The home is currently owned by the former CEO of the music-sharing app Songza, according to Curbed, and is rumored to be a “sister home” of the Long Island mansion that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald for his novel, The Great Gatsby.
But the home formerly belonging to the younger Cuomo is not the only Douglas Manor property of repute to hit the real estate listing in recent weeks. An 18th century Dutch Colonial once originally owned by Cornelius Van Wyck went on the market for $3.2 million earlier this month.
Designated an historic site by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966, the waterfront home was built around 1735 and was passed down to the Queens County merchant’s son, who served in the Continental Congress before selling the house to Wynant Van Zandt, a wealthy merchant from the city. Van Zandt began the transformation of the area from working farms to country estates around the year he purchased the land, according to The Douglaston and Little Neck Historical Society.
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