Justin and Hailey Bieber Are Coming to 160 Leroy

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Justin and Hailey Bieber are moving to the West Village. After years of living together at the Oosten in South Williamsburg and renting around lower Manhattan, the couple bought a condo at 160 Leroy, per The Wall Street Journal. So what’s the apartment like? Does anyone else famous live there? And the Biebers are certainly wealthy enough to buy anywhere, so why Ian Schrager’s sculptural little tower on the westside waterfront over, say, the Standish?

We asked around.

The couple paid the asking price of $12 million for the 2,800-square-foot four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath apartment. The seller was Steven Brauser, charmain and CEO of the Parkland Group, who purchased the apartment back in 2018 for $10.5 million. It comes with a wall of western-facing floor-to-ceiling windows that look out on the Hudson. There also are six “art walls” — perfect for hanging Justin’s Pokémon-card collection. Per the listing, the custom kitchen has “Scandinavian Larch cabinetry, hand-selected Sivec marble, a suite of integrated appliances by Sub-Zero, Wolf, Gaggenau, and Miele.” And that’s just the for-show kitchen. The chef’s kitchen, or what a brochure for the building referred to as the “dirty kitchen,” has a Sub-Zero freezer and wine refrigerator, and Wolf steam oven. It can also be closed off to hide stacks of dishes or the staff doing the actual cooking. The primary suite has a “marble-clad en suite bath with a Kaldewei soaking tub, radiant heated floors, double vanity, stall shower, a water closet, and generous closet space.” The layout is a little curve on the northern edge of the building.

160 Leroy was built in 2017 and is 15 stories, with 57 total residences. The whole thing, a collaboration between hotelier Schrager and Herzog & de Meuron, is very splashy. (The listing copy leans hard on the language of curves and sensuality.) It is also extremely amenitized, with a full-time resident manager and 24-hour concierge, a 70-foot pool and whirlpool spa, a fitness center and yoga studio, a sauna, a private massage room, a refrigerated delivery storage … you get the idea. There’s even a children’s “clubhouse,” which the couple’s 1-year-old son, Jack Blues Bieber, can put to use. There’s also a porte cochere and parking garage for seamless coming and going without any risk of paparazzi or rabid Beliebers.

Exactly. Everyone I talked to about their decision to buy at 160 Leroy said the same thing: privacy. “The porte cochere and parking garage is a game-changer,” says Serhant’s Peter Zaitzeff. “You can pull your car in and not get swarmed.” And while 80 Clarkson and its $750,000 parking spots seems to be the downtown story everyone is talking about, Zaitzeff says he doesn’t see it as a match for the young couple: “80 Clarkson to me is for rich New Yorkers that don’t necessarily have style or taste.” 160 Leroy, on the other hand, is “a cool building where cool people live.” It’s also been around long enough to have proof of concept — no risks involved with newer builds. “It’s just aged well,” adds Lauren Muss, a Douglas Elliman broker who sold out the building more than a decade ago. “It’s still a very sexy building.”

Each celebrity-favored neighborhood has a reputation. Brooklyn Heights, where Adam Driver is now neighbors with Matt Damon who was already neighbors with John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, might be a little too “old” and low-key. Lower Manhattan is just a little younger feeling. (Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are nearby with their respective families.) And the Biebers seem to be comfortable in the area — Hailey’s been spotted over the years having breakfast at the Commerce Inn and I Sodi for dinner. Back in 2019, just a few months after getting married, the Biebers reportedly toured a handful of five-figure rentals at 160 Leroy; in 2022, the New York Post reported that they signed a $22,000-a-month lease for a three-bedroom a little further south, at 195 Hudson Street in Tribeca.

The Westside Highway is also a little outside the West Village Girl doom loop, which seems like a good bet if you’re Justin Bieber. “You don’t have the same intensity as some of the other parts of the neighborhood,” Clayton Orrigo, co-founder of Hudson Advisory, tells me.

Okay, cool is subjective. But there are obviously other wealthy and famous people in the building: Michael Rubin, the billionaire Fanatics CEO and Hamptons White Party host, purchased a 7,700-square-foot penthouse back in 2018 for $43.5 million, which came with a 27-foot pool. (In 2023, he reportedly bought Ryan Seacrest’s apartment in the building and combined them to create a nine-bedroom Goliath.) Another Fanatics executive managed to secure a $40,000-a-month lease on an eighth-floor three-bedroom after a bidding war (and Rubin’s intervention), per the Real Deal. Ian Schrager also apparently bought a 12th-floor apartment for around $15 million in the building in 2016, which he told the Post was part of his plan for “downsizing” from his penthouse at 40 Bond. The main thing, per Orrigo, who bought a three-bedroom here for $6.5 million, is that the building knows how to handle security and takes residents’ privacy seriously. “The Biebers are only some of the people of this caliber and high-profile nature,” Orrigo tells me. “The building is very used to high-level security.”

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