161 Grand Street #PHA

The Solita began in 1911 as a loft building on Grand Street and was reimagined as a boutique condominium between SoHo and NoLita. This is its penthouse, where Sofia Coppola kept a corner home for a decade, the years she made Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette.

A key-locked elevator opens straight into roughly 3,600 square feet under eleven-foot ceilings. A sitting room with a gas fireplace flows into a separate dining area and a kitchen set with Sub-Zero, Viking, and Bosch behind stone counters. The primary suite keeps a walk-in closet and a spa bath with a rain shower and a deep soaking tub, and a home office hides behind custom built-ins.

A floating staircase climbs to a glass atrium and a thousand square feet of roof deck finished in terracotta with built-in wood seating. To the east the bridges line up, Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, while to the north the gilded dome of the 1909 Police Building answers back.

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