Beastie Boy Ad-Rock’s childhood Greenwich Village home is on the market for $1.79 million.
Adam Horovitz — now married to pioneering feminist punk singer/songwriter Kathleen Hanna, of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre — grew up in this duplex co-op at 726 Washington, between Bank and West 11th streets.
In September, the Beastie Boys were immortalized in New York City history, when the Lower East Side corner of Ludlow and Rivington — once photographed for the cover of their 1989 hip hop album “Paul’s Boutique” — was named Beastie Boys Square.
“Thank you [to New York] for teaching us what to look at, what to listen to, what to wear, how to love, how to live,” said Horovitz. “It makes me really happy to know that some kid on the way to school 50 years from now is gonna look up and say, ‘What the f–k is a Beastie Boy? Why do they get a square?’”
He was there with co-Beastie Boy Michael Diamond, known as Mike D — whose own Upper West Side childhood home just sold for $13.5 million. The third member of the New York City trio, Adam Yauch, died from cancer in 2012.
The three-bedroom, 1½-bath unit comes with a double-height ceiling in the living room, a windowed dining area, a mezzanine loft space and a central staircase.
Horovitz and his brother Matt were raised here by their mom, artist Doris Keefe; their father, playwright Israel Horovitz, left the family in 1969.
The apartment is where the Beastie Boys would often converge, according to listing broker Asit Parikh of Compass.
Mark and April Hallenbeck bought the unit for $333,294 in 2006, according to property records. Back then, it was a rent-stabilized building. It turned co-op in 2008.
“It’s a great apartment. We had a great life here but our children are grown now, and there’s no longer a need for all the space,” said Mark Hallenbeck, 66, who has lived in the complex, in different units, for 40 years. The fourth-floor home comes with $2,868 in monthly maintenance fees, and access to private green space with grills and patio tables, along with bike storage in the building.
Separately, Horovitz and Hanna sold their Chelsea loft at 129 W. 22nd St. for $3.2 million in 2021 — slightly over the $3.15 million asking price, according to property records.
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