Long ago, the Beastie Boys informed us that sleeping before Brooklyn was not an option.
But until now, we did not have a true Beastie-endorsed option in which we could rest our weary heads. Thankfully, Mike Diamond ("Mike D") has finally crafted the perfect Brooklyn townhouse with help from John and Jill Bouratoglou.
The trio designed Diamond's current house where he stays with his wife, Tamra Davis, and their two kids.
This year, he decided to step up his architecture game with the Bouratoglous and put together a 4,150 square foot home in the Boerum Hill neighborhood that includes four bedrooms, four full bathrooms, a dramatic double height living room, custom built chef's kitchen and a finished recreation rom with 12-foot ceilings and lots of natural light (Consequence of Sound).
The place is scheduled for completion this December, and you can make it yours for the price of $4.98 million.
Here are the artist renderings:
In late July, Diamond sat down with Vanity Fair to explain why nobody cared about Paul's Boutique in 1989.
"People knew us for one thing, and instead of us giving them that at all, we were, like, completely disinterested in that," he said. "Our whole thing was, 'O.K., how do we go totally beyond that?' In Paul's Boutique's case, when it came out, that was not something people were comfortable with or ready for or wanting to hear. . . . It didn't check any of the boxes for them."
Founding member Adam Yauch ("MCA") passed away in 2012, which means the days of new music and touring under the BB name are over.
But the memories are plentiful. Diamond also told Vanity Fair about the origins of their famous Spike Jonze-directed video for "Sabotage."
"We all watched video tapes, VHS video tapes of Streets of San Francisco and other shows and we were like, 'O.K., that would be awesome if we could actually pull off our own version of that,'" he said. "We bought a car that was about to die, and we had some kind of, like, loose shooting permits, but it's not like we had fire-department [permits] or any of the stuff we should have had with the car. And we just drove the car ourselves."
