"Moonstruck" house sold

I confess that I like an occasional "girlie" movie and the 1987 Cher/Nicholas Cage flick, "Moonstruck", was always one of my favorites. It was mostly because director Norman Jewison captured so well the feel of a Brooklyn townhouse and a Brooklyn townhouse neighborhood. This is largely because Jewison shot the movie on location in a real house and in a real neighborhood.

There was a scene in the movie when Olympia Dukakis, as Rose Castorini, stands outside the home with her wannabe male suitor. He looks at the house and comments, "My God, it's a mansion!"

"It's a house," she replies, with perfect Brooklyn sarcasm.

The "Moonstruck" house I love so much, with all its original detail, sold last week. The previous owners bought the 4,200 square foot, 4 story, 1829 brick Federal at 19 Cranberry Street in 1959 for a whopping $40,000.

Brooklyn Heights has become considerably more fashionable since. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that it closed for $4 million. And it doesn't even have a garage.

The NY Times wrote an interesting piece on the former owner and Brooklyn Heights in the 1960s.