"There, in what she has referred to as her "dream come true" house, the Emmy-winning actress often used a 1979 edition of Marcella Hazan's The Classic Italian Cook Book: The Art of Italian Cooking and the Italian Art of Eating to make Bolognese sauce on her beloved Ilve stove with tomatoes grown in her backyard."
"Plimpton, who had previously lived in the same rent-stabilized Upper West Side apartment building for the first four decades of her life, told The New York Times that she was immediately drawn to Prospect Lefferts Gardens and its tight-knit community. "Cobble Hill and Park Slope were a little too twee for me," she said. "In this neighborhood, there are families of all ages, races and demographics.""
"Fast-forward 12 years later, and the 1980s icon, probably best known for her role in the 1980s cult classic The Goonies, has parted ways with her longtime home amid a move to London. Records show it has officially traded hands for $2.65 million, which is around $1.3 million more than she paid for the place back in spring 2013 before undertaking a gut renovation. Pamela D'Arc of Compass held the listing."
Martha Plimpton purchased a historic Victorian in Prospect Lefferts Gardens just over a decade ago and completed a gut renovation. She regularly cooked Bolognese on an Ilve six-burner stove using tomatoes grown in her backyard and kept a 1979 edition of Marcella Hazan's classic cookbook. She maintained three guest bedrooms and nicknamed the home "The Martha Plimpton House for Wayward Women and Divorcées." Plimpton spent the first four decades of her life in a rent-stabilized Upper West Side apartment and chose Prospect Lefferts Gardens for its tight-knit, diverse community. The early-1900s white wood-sided house features a front porch with Corinthian columns, roughly 2,800 square feet across three levels with four bedrooms and five baths. The property sold for $2.65 million, about $1.3 million more than the 2013 purchase price.
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