Inside Bob Dylan’s First Greenwich Village Apartment—You Can Live ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ For $8 Million
Before he was the greatest songwriter of all time, Bob Dylan was just a complete unknown living in NYC
You’d never expect a world-famous musician and one of the greatest songwriters in the world to live in a third-floor walkup, but before Bob Dylan was Bob Dylan, that’s exactly what he did. In 1961, the singer moved to New York City and rented out an apartment in Greenwich Village for just $60/month.
Now, the icon’s first apartment can be yours, along with the building in which it belongs. The 4,597-square-foot property at 161 W. Fourth St is available for $8.25 million is currently attracting worldwide attention. Built in 1910, the property has since been designated a part of the Greenwich Village Historic District.
A look at the $8.25M historic building at 161 W. 4th St
The building holds five apartments, one with three bedrooms and two bathrooms and the other four with one bedroom and one bathroom. The rent for each apartment varies, with the cheapest one-bedroom going for $4,800/month and the most expensive reaching $8,750/month.
Beneath the living quarters, there are also two stores, Cherry Boxxx and Hamlet’s Vintage, both of which pay $8,750/month in rent. Taxes for the property are about $72,000/year and each unit is considered “free market,” meaning they aren’t subject to rent regulation.
The marketing team from Avision Young is Brandon Polakoff, David Shalom and Ryan McGuirl, with Icon Realty Management behind the sale.
“The property’s iconic address not only offers immediate access to the city’s vibrant residential and retail markets but also carries the cultural legacy of Bob Dylan and the artistic spirit of Greenwich Village,” said Polakoff. “With its premier location, fully fair-market status and renewed cultural relevance, this asset stands as a rare and powerful investment opportunity.”
Why this Greenwich Village address is music history gold
The building has been completely renovated, but it is still a musically and historically significant establishment. Dylan wrote some of his earliest songs while in this apartment and he even shot the cover of his breakout album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, around the corner from the building. The singer occupied the third-floor rear apartment, No. 3R, for three years from 1961 to 1964.
“It wasn’t much, just two rooms above Bruno’s spaghetti parlor, next door to the local record store and furniture supply store on the other side,” Dylan wrote in his 2004 memoir, Chronicles: Volume One. “The apartment had a tiny bedroom, more like a large closet, and a kitchenette, a living room with a fireplace and two windows that looked out over fire escapes and small courtyards.”
Whether you are interested in the superb location or just to experience musical history, this building and the apartments inside just might be the perfect place for any lifelong Bob Dylan fan.
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