Harry Potter’s Own Chamber of Secrets in New York
For some people real estate doesn’t look so bad today. Daniel Radcliffe, a British actor, best known for playing Harry Potter in the feature film series based on the popular seven fantasy novels written by British author J.K. Rowling, recently bought 19th century compound in Greenwich Village (New York) for $5, 650.000.
The property has 3 buildings, which were built in 1847 by sea captain for his three daughters. Maybe Daniel Radcliffe will decide to turn one of those buildings into a modern Chamber of Secrets, just for fun. Who knows? But for now, it looks like this young actor learned a lot from J. K. Rowling books (and movies) that chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his friends from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardly.
20 years old movie star did not loose time. He became a wizard in real life. Earlier he invested his money in two condominuims in New York, and rents one for $20.000 per month. This time it is not a try in the art of cinema, but first steps in good business. I don’t think he even had to apply for a mortgage with any bank.
Greenwich Village, as often called simply, “the Village,” is a prestigious residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Bounded by Broadway on the east and the Hudson River on the west, and with Washington Square Park and New York University in the middle, Greenwich Village became well known in the late 19th – to mid 20th centuries as the bohemian capital and the birthplace of the Beat movement, and after 1910, a favorite rendezvous for writers, artists, students, freethinkers and intellectuals.
The renowned Abstract Expessionist, artist and teacher Hans Hoffman, Joseph Mitchell, Maxwell Bodenheim, dancer Isadora Duncan, writers William Faulkner and John Reed, and playwright Eugene O’Neill, Marcel Duchamp and other talents lived, worked and dreamed in “the Village,” even once setting off balloons from atop Washington Square Arch, and proclaiming the founding of “The Independent Republic of Greenwich Village.”
Later Greenwich Village and surrounding New York City influenced the writings of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, James baldwin, William S. Burroughs, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, and Rod McKuen. Today “the Village” is home to many talented artists, writers, musicians, Hollywood celebrities, and continues to be famous for its architecture, spirit and, as always, the bohemian lifestyle of its inhabitants.
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