The childhood home of DJ and entrepreneur Hannah Bronfman — one of the rare landmarked Gilded Age mansions to grace the Upper West Side — is now on sale for half off.
The red brick and limestone mansion at 337 Riverside Drive hit the market for $24 million last May and now asks $12.99 million following a broker swap.
“It’s a beautiful, rare estate, and it’s priced to sell,” said broker Carl Gambino who is listing the turn-of-the-century property with fellow Compass broker Oliver Gold.
The 35-foot-wide, five-story residence is known as River Mansion — the name is carved in stone above the front door — and flanked by carved columns inspired by 16th-century French architecture. It’s one of seven Beaux-Arts mansions from 330 to 337 Riverside Drive, known as the Seven Beauties, and it sits on the corner by Riverside Park at West 106th Street.
The seller is Bronfman’s mother Sherry Bronfman, a former actress who co-starred in the 1971 film “Shaft.” She is the ex-wife of Seagram billionaire heir Edgar Bronfman, whose half-sister, Clare Bronfman, pled guilty to charges related to her involvement with Albany-based sex slave cult Nxivm in 2019.
Hannah Bronfman, now a mom of two married to Brendan Fallis, grew up here with her siblings Vanessa, a singer-actor, and Benjamin, a musician and entrepreneur who shares a child with rapper M.I.A.
The stately five-bedroom home is 10,000 square feet. It opens to a grand foyer and features a parlor, a library, a wine room, a cellar, a media room, a formal dining room, a light-filled living room, seven fireplaces, a chef’s kitchen, an elevator — and a 2,000-square-foot roof deck overlooking the Hudson River. One of the bedrooms is currently used as a home office.
The home has quite the history. It’s been in the hands of female actresses, from Bronfman to Shakespearean actress Julia Marlowe, who paid $68,000 for the property in 1903.
It was later carved up during the Great Depression. The home has been in the Bronfman family since 1978, when Edgar bought it for $5.6 million.
