Exclusive | Author ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Elizabeth Gilbert requires $ 1.19 million for NYC co-op, where she mourned the death of her partner: ‘Magic to be there in my grief’

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Author Elizabeth Gilbert, whose readers have followed her journey from “Eat, Lutuni, Love” who became a 2010 movie by performing Julia Roberts this year “all the way to the river: Love, Loss and Liberation”, re-raised her Gramercy park for $ 1.19 million.

It was looking for $ 1.49 million earlier this year. She paid $ 1.69 million for her in 2017, according to property data – so she will sell it with a loss.

In a movement interview, Gilbert told Gimme Shelter that the house was her sanctuary and wrote Cocoon while she recognized the loss of her love, Rayya Elias. Gilbert hopes to create Nurture the other person living there.

“I bought the apartment immediately before my partner Rayya died [of cancer]”Gilbert said.”

“It is a kind of something we have raised together,” Gilbert added. “Rayya said she wanted to paint where I would be, so she was sleeping there one night, which I really felt it was like a benefit.

Elias who had a lot of talent-was a Douglas Elliman-born mediator in Syria, as well as an author, a director, a hairdresser and a musician.

The house with a sun -filled bedroom, a bathroom is at 224 E. 17th St., which is also known as 1 Rutherford Place. It was built in 1855 as a city in the city, and is where Gilbert wrote her novel for 2019, “The City of Girls”.

“The apartment in that novel is based on this apartment, where my late character in life finds a place in the Gramercy area and settled for the rest of her life,” Gilbert said. “That would be my goal too. Then Covid happened, I left New York and transferred to the place [in New Jersey] And I discovered that I really didn’t want to go back, which I think is probably a very common story. Life has taken another turn. “

Renovated with the intestine, classic premature cooperation contains large excessive boiler windows and white oak floors.

The spread of the second flight comes with an elegant living room of living and dining, and a kitchen with windows with a wine coolant.

The apartment, Gilbert said, “It was like a nest. It is such a romantic space, with these windows overlooking Rutherford Place, which is this little New York corner that even people living in the neighborhood do not know what it is. It was very magical to be there in my grief.”

Gilbert says she is in the “post-beauty” stage of her life, living “as a 60-year-old boy” with closed hair/shaved with comfortable clothes and shoes. She is spending time in a home converted by an old church she owns for two decades in New Jersey, spending more time to travel, to destinations including costs Rica.

That is why, she said, it was time to “let the apartment go”.

“She served for her purposes and sheltered me for a while and the really delicate moment in my life, and maybe shelter someone else and inspire someone else because it is also a great place to write,” Gilbert said.

Gilbert said she bought the apartment from an architect who renewed the apartment and was very deliberate to maximize its space. But while she was renewing, the architect heard a voice telling her that she was designing the space for a writer.

“When I appeared, she said,” Oh, you are there. I was wondering who was the writer I was doing this was! “So there is certainly a very romantic, mystical part of me who is wondering who will have the other creative person who will live there, using the light and the space to do their projects.

“There is a great magic in the apartment,” she added. “Got Got Great Ju-You”.

The main bedroom also feels a kazmut window, plus construction, a large custom closet and a bathroom bath. There is also a Hitron Light system, a lot of storage throughout the apartment and more storage based along with laundry and bike storage.

The Broker of the list is Jessica Taylor of Serhant, a member of the Netflix Streaming series, “Manhattan’s Mastery”, and Ravi Kanta, also of Serhant.

While Gilbert no longer lives in the city, she will return on September 9 as part of her book tour, speaking in the large hall at Cooper Union, 7 E. Seventh St., Sponsored by Strand.