@@emilymalden3310 Trust me, you wouldn’t want to live on 87th street! Believe me, the novelty wears off quick, and the reality of living around monsters replaces it!
If anyone has a chance to visit St Ramonds Cemetery in the Bronx. be sure to leave a stone on Billie's "FINAL" resting place. Sleep in peace dear child, your heart will go on.
AMEN!! I Don't Know Why Our Black African Celebrities Running 🏃 Around Making And Want Our Money And Our Television Rantings 📺.. But They Can't Go To Mrs. Billie Holiday Grave Site 🌼 🌼.. To See 👀 If She Needs Tomb Stone Repair Or Needs One Period.. R.I.P. Lady Day 🎼🙏 🎼 🙏.
I'm from NY and I sing a lot of her songs and have visit her grave sight but most of all im well pleased to know that she is still being honored for who she was. Im always educating young people about who she was as a psalmist and what she believed as a women of color. When I was a little girl families would keep flyers and newspaper clippings of the great musicians psalmist entertainers of color and explain to us why we should remember them and not forget about doors they are opening for us. Let's not forget our history and live in peace with one another.
It’s 62 years since we lost her on Saturday. I ordered a dozen long st roses to be delivered on Saturday to her final resting place. She liked gardenias. I couldn’t find any. We lost a lot when we lost her. I know the story and everything and I can honestly say I love every part of her.
Lady day. Is one of my favourite jazz singer. She was raw and real. Her life, was full of pain and sadness. You can hear it in her songs. She was abused by the men. Ripped off by the Business. Her voice has the power to touch you, make you cry. She was also a great songwriter. She is one of the greatest voice ever. There will never be another Billie Holiday.
I am born and raised in Harlem I once lived on 132nd street between 7th. AND LENOX AVENUES I WHILE LIVING THERE I MET A VERY OLD WOMAN WHO KNEW Billie Holiday and she said that Billie had lived there in that building for off and on for a while it wasn't a nice building then or now and people can attest to that! Her addiction seriously contributed to a life of uncertainties
May Billie Holiday aka Lady day RIP! Unfortunately she didn’t own this home. She only lived on the first floor and this place was not restored, it was just renovated! Billie however should have owned this entire mansion with the way the Government and Feds treated her! SMH 🤦🏽♀️
I love Ms. Holiday but that doesn't mean I believe all this was hers at that time. As famous as she was, and as iconic and legendary as she is, she battled the heroine addiction that was extremely expensive. With that and her legal troubles, I doubt she could have afforded it. 😥
@@kcorn12kc Yes, you get a strike and can get your videos taken down if you use copyrighted music which is why creators are limited in the music they can use. I’m sure that some record label still owns her music catalogue.
Really from over 60 years ago 😩🤦🏽♀️😂 lolll not being an a-hole sorry i cant help but think that a woman who died that long ago , had probably several residents since then would have left the house untouched in over six decades
The last month of her life was spent handcuffed to a hospital bed. She was getting methadone for withdrawals (it helped) it was stopped, they stated she had pulmonary and cardiac issues. Pulmonary possibly due to smoking or (pneumonia) from bed confinement. You can argue some of the issues were caused by alcohol/tobacco and long term heroin use. In my opinion it was tithe methadone being stopped and bed confinement that did her in. They even barred visitors and took her record player and candy at her bedside. I consider this government sanctioned murder. Oh the best part everyone is dead that was involved and most records have been destroyed. I’m never going to criticize Lady Day honestly as bad as it sounds I love every part of her.
Gina Friend I was going to say the same thing. Undoubtedly she rented a room long before this place was restored to the unimaginable, restored mansion we see here. If Billie had moved to France, I believe she would have lived in this kind of luxury.
They spittin on her grave n using her NAME, revenue millions of dollars. When she never GOT a M in Money or Millions n they gave a GOTDAMN DIME just to keep her depressed n surpassing the MISERABLY acts Committed against her...Let me go PLAY sum STRANGE FRUIT🤪 🥰
With foul America breathing down her back it was hard for her or on anyone but Ms Holiday still remained Lady Day🥰❤️🖤💚love you forever Billie rest in power❤️🖤💚
The house at 26 W. 87th St. represents the coda to Billie's story. While living in apartment #1B, she released one of her most famous albums, the haunting Lady in Satin (1958), and gradually succumbed to the effects of years of drug and alcohol abuse. In Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1991), writer Robert O'Meally described how Billie threw her last birthday party there in 1959: "Her place was on a pretty part of the street A large window overlooked a courtyard and garden. For the party she had put little tables of food in front of the window." Annie Ross (Holiday's close friend and a great jazz singer in her own right) also spoke about the apartment in Stuart Nicholson's Billie Holiday (1995): "I would go by her place not many people did, very, very few she would cook and I would play records She was on her way down and people, for whatever reason, don't like to be associated with people who aren't doing it or making it." According to a board member for the building, there was a fan- based effort several years ago to install a plaque in front, but nothing came of it.
I hate to say this, but Billie Holiday was NOT on here way down and so avoided. She was a drunk and heroin addict--ant that is NOT a pleasant person to be around--no matter their genius.
I’m still angry about what they did to her… and how they tried to cover it up by implying that she basically killed herself. Yes she struggled with addiction, but that horrible Harry Anslinger held her hostage in the hospital until she died and his actions were covered up by the media.
Billie Holiday neither owned this home nor did she live in the basement. Billie Holiday rented the ground floor 1-bedroom apartment in 1957, and lived there until her death in 1959. The apartment was small yet appeared to have been nicely appointed and furnished.
That is gorgeous. Doesn't matter if she lived on the roof. It was an incredible house. Somehow I cannot imagine the small dingy apartment in the basement (people write about). They say she believed and had the best.
@@ladypaul7932 more than a house a Mansion! Go 'Billie' Gooooo! She is/was 'Legendary' Royalty and she lived like a Beautiful Soulful 'Queen'! God Bless Her!
Barbara k.. Something Don't Sound Right!! I Do Believe That Other Rich Jazz Celebrities, And Movie Star's Shared That Appartment Complex!! That Way Too Big - For Mrs. Billie Holiday 🌼 🌼.. To Live In.. By Knowing What Her Husband's Took From Her!! And On Top Of That - The Government On Her Back ⚖ ⚖.. As Well.. I Believed, If Anything That They Gave And Let Her Rent Out - The Basement Lower Section Of This Supposed Mansion Home 🏡.
Lady Paul not really .. many musicians especially black , shared homes back then .. the home i grew up in had a whole guess house out back , we never lived in it ... it was always used as a rental and other parts of the house rented out .. rooms etc .. so no you dont really Have the whole house
The UA-cam production wants to give the impression that Billie Holiday owned the building and lived in the entire building. In reality, she lived in Apartment 1B, being one tenant in a building of several other tenants, And, of course, the rent would have been what, less than $100/month and the building in 1959 could have been bought for maybe $10,000.
The house at 26 W. 87th St. represents the coda to Billie's story. While living in apartment 1B, she released one of her most famous albums, the haunting Lady in Satin (1958), and gradually succumbed to the effects of years of drug and alcohol abuse. In Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1991), writer Robert O'Meally described how Billie threw her last birthday party there in 1959: "Her place was on a pretty part of the street A large window overlooked a courtyard and garden. For the party she had put little tables of food in front of the window."
Carolyn Gardner not n all brownstones. I live in a brownstone my entire life and always have the second floor front bay windows fireplace wood floors high ceilings. But the other part of the brownstone have other tenants. Therefore we don’t live the entire brownstone not allowed in the other parts
@@waynej2608 She was in the sunset of her life and money was very tight. That basement apartment was her last home before her hospitalization and death in the summer of '59.
THIS WOMAN LIVED LARGE... BILLIE WAS AN HONEST WOMAN... PLAINLY WAS IN PAIN, BUT SUAVE IN HER BUSINESS... THE WOMAN TOOK CARE OF BUSINESS... WE SHALL SEE HER AGAIN IN ON RESURRECTION DAY😇
No, sorry but you don’t know what you are talking about. I had 2 aunts that lived in NYC next to her, and they were friends , so I grew up hearing about Billie all my life and all the pictures my aunts had with her, yes she was honest and bold but she was drawn to men who abused her and took her money. So she did not live large and she couldn’t have with the heavy heroin and alcohol addiction she had. But she is one of greatest Jazz artist of all time.
michael morgan!! I Believe Mrs. Billie Holiday 🌼 🌼 - Had The Basement Lower Level!! Because Of What She Been Going Through With Both Of Her Husband's - And - Government Taking Her Earnings.. Because Of Her Drug Abuse 💉 Habit.. From Seeing A Body Hanging From A Tree 🌳 Earlier In Her Jazz Career!! While Touring Down In The Deep South.. P.S. The Media Say Anything Just For Likes 👍.. That's Why Lee Daniels Had To Dig Deep Into ( The United State's Vs. Billie Holiday ).. Because Of Lies Like This.. Saying She Had Money 💵 💵.. And Was Living Good When She Wasn't.
That house is beautiful but mammoth. I'd drive myself crazy peeking around doors and down hallways to see what's lurking. I'm very leery of huge places.
Beautiful but I wouldn’t dare pay $13 million to live in an overcrowded, rat-invested crime filled city, I’m sorry just not buying the hype filled fantasy, a person could buy 25 properties in a beautiful neighborhood in a midsized town with that kind of money 💰
@@MattSezer yeah go tell somebody else that fanasty, everyone who lives in NYC knows that rats proliferate like 90 miles going south from the hood to the 5 th Avenues to the fast food restaurants to the fine dining celebrity spots, those fat rats are big as a year old cat and they don’t discriminate , rich or poor, poor or rich, that’s one city I could do without, nice to visit, but visit and stay, never in a million years minus that million off the $13 million their trying to sell that brownstone for no way 😆😂😫🤣
@@toytoy3900 Again, I'm not saying that rats aren't a huge problem, just that rats generally don't travel up much vertically, so as long as you're not on the ground floor or a basement, you're good. Also, you could make 20+ studio apartments renting at $1,500+ a month out of the square footage in that building, so that's really what you're paying for, although it's still way overpriced.
@@MattSezer yeah that makes a lot of sense especially for an investor, I’d definitely like to get a property like that under contract and assign my equitable interest to a cash buyer for even 1% 😀
I couldn't live in a house with stories I'm nosey and scary someone could sneak in and be living on a floor especially the days before cameras everywhere
Wonder how much she paid for it then. 13 million now, WOW!!!! Just watched "Lady Sings The Blues" for the millionth time. And I get emotional each time. Such a tragedy. You'll remain an icon "Lady Day." 🌹🌹🌹🌹
I knew it was a lie too. She was a very good jazz dinger. Hi singer. She was shooting heroin back then in those days she did not have that kind of money to own that house.lol
@@chloestewart1902 Right. Smh. I was waiting to see if anybody was going to educate these people who do not live in New York about the way they term the apartments here. There is a basement then there is the ground level which is called the basement. The level above the ground is called the parlor floor and so on. She have a basement apartment which was the ground level or garden apartment
Insane! Absolutely stunning ! To think she had achieved this level of success this house is amazing can only imagine what it meant in the 1950s wow! But with all of her issues and drug abuse im sure the house was in bad condition .. we are seeing the 2021 modern version of the home.. im sure Ms Holliday version wasnt this nice ...
Hard to believe she had the riches to afford that... like Judy Garland it seems she was running for her life going from crisis to crisis - but it’s a beautiful dream though .
Billie Holiday's former home is obviously Gorgeous ‼️ but there's no way I could live there. There's probably a good reason why it's still empty. Billie Holiday's home is probably still occupied. If I'm not mistaken, didn't she die there ⁉️. It would do me no favors to be sleeping and here someone's voice saying GET OUT, THIS IS MY HOME‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️⁉️⁉️⁉️🤦🕸️🕷️💀😵☠️🧟👹😫😱😲🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃👁️👁️👻👺😈🦴👁️👁️.
People are so fucked up. Years later people feel special “the legendary Jazz singer Bille Holiday” they forgot to mention how she was treated like shit and killed her. Isolated her from the world tied down to a hospital bed. She died with less than a dollar to her name. $13Million my ass!
I wanted to like this video but I cannot. I realize that this was not Billie Holiday's mansion. She could have owned it had they not cheated her out of the millions of dollars she earned and deserved. She probably rented the basement of this beautiful building, if she had any ownership in it at all. To hell with this stuffy building, begging for gentrification, as if New York City needs more of that nonsense. Only God gave Billie Holiday what she truly deserved -- a grand and glorious mansion in Heaven. RIP our Lady of the Blues! I look forward to drinking and laughing with you one day in your heavenly mansion. Say hi to God for me please.
Lis Wright!! Mrs. Billie Holiday Died In 1959.. I Don't Know If That Her Whole Home!! Or Was It Other's Celebrities That Had Appartments Or Rooms - In The Same Complex Building!! P.S. I Keep Hearing 👂.. That Mrs. Billie Holiday Rented Out The Basement To Live In!! While The Other Different Race Of. Jazz Celebrities, And The Movie Stars 🎥.. Had The Best That Is.. Due To Her Husband's Taking Her Money And The Government On Top Of Getting Onto The Seen 👀 👀.. ( My Statement - I Do Believe That ).
No, Billie did not own this home. She and hubby rented 1B of the building. There were other tenants living on different floors. Obviously, someone bought the entire building, kicked out the tenants and RENOVATED it as a family home. I will bet you the steps to the front of the building are not even original. There were no walk-in closets or wine cellar for Lady Day. She died broke with less than $50 in cash strapped to her leg in the hospital.
Dimitri Merritt why you say lies? Billie Holiday didn’t live there? I know it didn’t have all that glass in the bathroom and stainless steel in the kitchen but, what makes you think she didn’t live there?
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I don’t care what part of this house she lived in, the house is gorgeous and she’s a jazz legend and that’s true!
What A Beautiful Home 🏡
. That Billie Holiday Had.. R.I.P. Billie Holiday 🌼 🌼.
Wow if only I could afford something like that.
Factssss.
@@emilymalden3310 Trust me, you wouldn’t want to live on 87th street! Believe me, the novelty wears off quick, and the reality of living around monsters replaces it!
NO THANKS; I don't want nobody knowing where I live at to begin with let alone paying a price tag based on somebody celebrity
If anyone has a chance to visit St Ramonds Cemetery in the Bronx. be sure to leave a stone on Billie's "FINAL" resting place. Sleep in peace dear child, your heart will go on.
I visited when I lived in New York. Lady Day
AMEN!! I Don't Know Why Our Black African Celebrities Running 🏃 Around Making And Want Our Money And Our Television Rantings 📺.. But They Can't Go To Mrs. Billie Holiday Grave Site 🌼 🌼.. To See 👀 If She Needs Tomb Stone Repair Or Needs One Period.. R.I.P. Lady Day 🎼🙏 🎼 🙏.
I'm from NY and I sing a lot of her songs and have visit her grave sight but most of all im well pleased to know that she is still being honored for who she was. Im always educating young people about who she was as a psalmist and what she believed as a women of color. When I was a little girl families would keep flyers and newspaper clippings of the great musicians psalmist entertainers of color and explain to us why we should remember them and not forget about doors they are opening for us. Let's not forget our history and live in peace with one another.
@@donalddavis6689 she’s had a nice tombstone
It’s 62 years since we lost her on Saturday. I ordered a dozen long st roses to be delivered on Saturday to her final resting place. She liked gardenias. I couldn’t find any. We lost a lot when we lost her. I know the story and everything and I can honestly say I love every part of her.
Lady day. Is one of my favourite jazz singer. She was raw and real. Her life, was full of pain and sadness. You can hear it in her songs. She was abused by the men. Ripped off by the Business. Her voice has the power to touch you, make you cry. She was also a great songwriter. She is one of the greatest voice ever. There will never be another Billie Holiday.
THE GREATEST JAZZ VOCALIST ...🥰
Yes she and Ella are a blessing to all that is music and treatments to the strength of women.
@@patiencealltheabove5671💯
I am born and raised in Harlem I once lived on 132nd street between 7th. AND LENOX AVENUES I WHILE LIVING THERE I MET A VERY OLD WOMAN WHO KNEW Billie Holiday and she said that Billie had lived there in that building for off and on for a while it wasn't a nice building then or now and people can attest to that! Her addiction seriously contributed to a life of uncertainties
May Billie Holiday aka Lady day RIP! Unfortunately she didn’t own this home. She only lived on the first floor and this place was not restored, it was just renovated! Billie however should have owned this entire mansion with the way the Government and Feds treated her! SMH 🤦🏽♀️
Exactly I agree
Typical real estate sales pitch, knowing glamour sells.
Wonderful jewel you just dropped😊thank you🌞
Amen ❗
I love Ms. Holiday but that doesn't mean I believe all this was hers at that time. As famous as she was, and as iconic and legendary as she is, she battled the heroine addiction that was extremely expensive. With that and her legal troubles, I doubt she could have afforded it. 😥
They wouldn't think to play some Billie Holiday for the background, basement or not?
Right?
Before my time but that would've been appropriate...just saying
Unfortunately, copyright laws prevent them from doing that on UA-cam.
@@ilovelife3328 I didn't realize that...so I guess whoever owns her estate has the say so
@@kcorn12kc Yes, you get a strike and can get your videos taken down if you use copyrighted music which is why creators are limited in the music they can use. I’m sure that some record label still owns her music catalogue.
@@ilovelife3328 I tell you their's really a lot of legal roads you must cross dealing with social media and a lot of other forms of entertainment.
Wish I could have seen it as she left it with all the old stuff in it that's what I was hoping to see.
Really from over 60 years ago 😩🤦🏽♀️😂 lolll not being an a-hole sorry i cant help but think that a woman who died that long ago , had probably several residents since then would have left the house untouched in over six decades
@@lmfd7373 yeah really!
Frl like omg that priceless
The last month of her life was spent handcuffed to a hospital bed. She was getting methadone for withdrawals (it helped) it was stopped, they stated she had pulmonary and cardiac issues. Pulmonary possibly due to smoking or (pneumonia) from bed confinement. You can argue some of the issues were caused by alcohol/tobacco and long term heroin use. In my opinion it was tithe methadone being stopped and bed confinement that did her in. They even barred visitors and took her record player and candy at her bedside. I consider this government sanctioned murder. Oh the best part everyone is dead that was involved and most records have been destroyed. I’m never going to criticize Lady Day honestly as bad as it sounds I love every part of her.
Unfortunately Lady Blue actually didn't live in it like this. She deserved that and more...
Gina Friend I was going to say the same thing. Undoubtedly she rented a room long before this place was restored to the unimaginable, restored mansion we see here. If Billie had moved to France, I believe she would have lived in this kind of luxury.
They spittin on her grave n using her NAME, revenue millions of dollars. When she never GOT a M in Money or Millions n they gave a GOTDAMN DIME just to keep her depressed n surpassing the MISERABLY acts Committed against her...Let me go PLAY sum STRANGE FRUIT🤪 🥰
With foul America breathing down her back it was hard for her or on anyone but Ms Holiday still remained Lady Day🥰❤️🖤💚love you forever Billie rest in power❤️🖤💚
I just finished up a book about her wow she had an amazing gift...rip lady day...peace
Ugh! This is NOT restored! It’s remodeled.
well that's your opinion dear !!!
Facts!💯remodeled
Jealous
@@knightyknight5399 if you think that’s how it looked back then you are clearly mistaken.
Wow - that was gorgeous. Love those old brownstones and town houses.
Absolutely stunning architecturally for 1910.
The house at 26 W. 87th St. represents the coda to Billie's story. While living in apartment #1B, she released one of her most famous albums, the haunting Lady in Satin (1958), and gradually succumbed to the effects of years of drug and alcohol abuse. In Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1991), writer Robert O'Meally described how Billie threw her last birthday party there in 1959: "Her place was on a pretty part of the street A large window overlooked a courtyard and garden. For the party she had put little tables of food in front of the window."
Annie Ross (Holiday's close friend and a great jazz singer in her own right) also spoke about the apartment in Stuart Nicholson's Billie Holiday (1995): "I would go by her place not many people did, very, very few she would cook and I would play records She was on her way down and people, for whatever reason, don't like to be associated with people who aren't doing it or making it."
According to a board member for the building, there was a fan- based effort several years ago to install a plaque in front, but nothing came of it.
I hate to say this, but Billie Holiday was NOT on here way down and so avoided. She was a drunk and heroin addict--ant that is NOT a pleasant person to be around--no matter their genius.
I’m still angry about what they did to her… and how they tried to cover it up by implying that she basically killed herself. Yes she struggled with addiction, but that horrible Harry Anslinger held her hostage in the hospital until she died and his actions were covered up by the media.
I would have to add an elevator.
Absolutely, and a visit from Ghost Busters! lol
@@greenbyrdd8308 Her spirit would always be welcome in my home😍
@@valerieneal2747 Don't get me wrong. I love Ms. Holliday, but um, er...not that much! 😆🤣🤣
Billie Holiday neither owned this home nor did she live in the basement. Billie Holiday rented the ground floor 1-bedroom apartment in 1957, and lived there until her death in 1959. The apartment was small yet appeared to have been nicely appointed and furnished.
Uh...Billie Holiday cool one bedroom pad ! 😉
WHO THE HECK ARE YOU???
Places where she lived before 1957? She lived in several buildings.
This is nice, if I win the lotto it is sold! They had to say she owned it for the star value.
THAT PART...
So glad they did not paint over the woodwork. Need to stop painting everything all white. Worse than the mauve and periwinkle blue days.
You should see it now. It's all white.
She stayed in the basement!!! They ought to be ashamed lying..That's all
That’s the media for you! Lies!
it's all about the Benjamin's they're trying to sell it and make money
Make it 50 million. ❤She’s a LEGEND!!!
I would have loved to see it in its original state..
Me too, but with Billie there, too.
I can feel the musical vibes coming through the walls.
🤣🤣🤣 I couldn't se a black musician having a lot back then.
Beautifully restored✔
That is gorgeous. Doesn't matter if she lived on the roof. It was an incredible house. Somehow I cannot imagine the small dingy apartment in the basement (people write about). They say she believed and had the best.
The truth is that she shared her voice with the world, yes we make mistakes along the way she is still a legend and her music lives on
Guess it sounds better for them to say she had the whole house lol hell she should have
When you OWN a house you have the whole house.
@@ladypaul7932 more than a house a Mansion! Go 'Billie' Gooooo! She is/was 'Legendary' Royalty and she lived like a Beautiful Soulful 'Queen'! God Bless Her!
Wait... She didn’t have the entire home??
Barbara k.. Something Don't Sound Right!! I Do Believe That Other Rich Jazz Celebrities, And Movie Star's Shared That Appartment Complex!! That Way Too Big - For Mrs. Billie Holiday 🌼 🌼.. To Live In.. By Knowing What Her Husband's Took From Her!! And On Top Of That - The Government On Her Back ⚖ ⚖.. As Well.. I Believed, If Anything That They Gave And Let Her Rent Out - The Basement Lower Section Of This Supposed Mansion Home 🏡.
Lady Paul not really .. many musicians especially black , shared homes back then .. the home i grew up in had a whole guess house out back , we never lived in it ... it was always used as a rental and other parts of the house rented out .. rooms etc .. so no you dont really Have the whole house
The UA-cam production wants to give the impression that Billie Holiday owned the building and lived in the entire building. In reality, she lived in Apartment 1B, being one tenant in a building of several other tenants, And, of course, the rent would have been what, less than $100/month and the building in 1959 could have been bought for maybe $10,000.
OMG. So let me guess, you hung out with her in 59 and she showed you around.
@@marquisinternational941 NO-- I read what other people wrote,
Rent was $138.00 per month at that time for her.
The house at 26 W. 87th St. represents the coda to Billie's story. While
living in apartment 1B, she released one of her most famous albums,
the haunting Lady in Satin (1958), and gradually succumbed to the
effects of years of drug and alcohol abuse. In Lady Day: The Many Faces
of Billie Holiday (1991), writer Robert O'Meally described how Billie
threw her last birthday party there in 1959: "Her place was on a pretty
part of the street A large window overlooked a courtyard and garden.
For the party she had put little tables of food in front of the window."
They lyin, she had the basement not the entire house comon now
This is a brownstone, so she live all over her house.
@bailey1950 She's not a racist or a hater. Billie rented the ground floor apt.
Carolyn Gardner not n all brownstones. I live in a brownstone my entire life and always have the second floor front bay windows fireplace wood floors high ceilings. But the other part of the brownstone have other tenants. Therefore we don’t live the entire brownstone not allowed in the other parts
@@waynej2608 She was in the sunset of her life and money was very tight. That basement apartment was her last home before her hospitalization and death in the summer of '59.
@@jennyjerome5669 how do you know?
Unfortunately, it wasn't as beautiful as this upgrade for her at that time...
I'm happy that Ms Holiday had this beauty ! ♡♡♡
Beautiful home!
THIS WOMAN LIVED LARGE... BILLIE WAS AN HONEST WOMAN... PLAINLY WAS IN PAIN, BUT SUAVE IN HER BUSINESS... THE WOMAN TOOK CARE OF BUSINESS... WE SHALL SEE HER AGAIN IN ON RESURRECTION DAY😇
No, sorry but you don’t know what you are talking about. I had 2 aunts that lived in NYC next to her, and they were friends , so I grew up hearing about Billie all my life and all the pictures my aunts had with her, yes she was honest and bold but she was drawn to men who abused her and took her money. So she did not live large and she couldn’t have with the heavy heroin and alcohol addiction she had. But she is one of greatest Jazz artist of all time.
@marilyn devon Well, not you. You won't be going there, fo sho. But, some of us will. lol
Why don't they donate this house to her living relative or a Museum about her. This house shouldn't be sold. To me its disrespectful to her legacy
She lived in a apartment in the basement
ikr i remember them saying a one bedroom not a five story....I was sitting here thinkin "REALLY"
RIGHT!
Wow!! I just seen this for the first time...come on man..this is how legends..are left 😢She didn’t own the home?.
michael morgan!! I Believe Mrs. Billie Holiday 🌼 🌼 - Had The Basement Lower Level!! Because Of What She Been Going Through With Both Of Her Husband's - And - Government Taking Her Earnings.. Because Of Her Drug Abuse 💉 Habit.. From Seeing A Body Hanging From A Tree 🌳 Earlier In Her Jazz Career!! While Touring Down In The Deep South.. P.S. The Media Say Anything Just For Likes 👍.. That's Why Lee Daniels Had To Dig Deep Into ( The United State's Vs. Billie Holiday ).. Because Of Lies Like This.. Saying She Had Money 💵 💵.. And Was Living Good When She Wasn't.
@@markbleu1744 @Mark Bleu - If You Get Time - Read My Statement!! I Say The Samething You Say.
The barn door belongs in a barn! Otherwise it's a lovely house.
Who thought that was a good idea?
I know; doesn’t go with the aesthetics of the place.
Stunningly gorgeous just like its former owner. History matters.
I bet it’s hella ghost in there too😒💅🏽🤣rip Billie
The news reporter make the most inane comments. 🙄 ”The acoustics have to be good in there for all those jazz parties!” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
😂😂😂😂😂😂 facts
Beautiful house. And right near The Museum of Natural History.
Why doesn’t her family get in touch with Ms Oprah and see if she’d help buy it for Historical Jazz Legend
Good call.
Excellent point!
That house is beautiful but mammoth. I'd drive myself crazy peeking around doors and down hallways to see what's lurking. I'm very leery of huge places.
Wow that is beautiful!
she did not live in the entire house. She had a small dingy apartment in the basement.
Oldmanriver77 dingy tho 😂
Thank you for telling it like it was!
Lies. She did not live in the basement. haha
@@biddymiller8733 💃🏽🙌🏽💖💯🎙️‼️
Dingy? Really?😒
Well she passed in July 1959 ....
Beautiful but I wouldn’t dare pay $13 million to live in an overcrowded, rat-invested crime filled city, I’m sorry just not buying the hype filled fantasy, a person could buy 25 properties in a beautiful neighborhood in a midsized town with that kind of money 💰
Rats aren't really a problem in residential buildings unless you live in the basement. Cockroaches are more of an issue.
@@MattSezer yeah go tell somebody else that fanasty, everyone who lives in NYC knows that rats proliferate like 90 miles going south from the hood to the 5 th Avenues to the fast food restaurants to the fine dining celebrity spots, those fat rats are big as a year old cat and they don’t discriminate , rich or poor, poor or rich, that’s one city I could do without, nice to visit, but visit and stay, never in a million years minus that million off the $13 million their trying to sell that brownstone for no way 😆😂😫🤣
@@toytoy3900 Again, I'm not saying that rats aren't a huge problem, just that rats generally don't travel up much vertically, so as long as you're not on the ground floor or a basement, you're good. Also, you could make 20+ studio apartments renting at $1,500+ a month out of the square footage in that building, so that's really what you're paying for, although it's still way overpriced.
@@MattSezer yeah that makes a lot of sense especially for an investor, I’d definitely like to get a property like that under contract and assign my equitable interest to a cash buyer for even 1% 😀
You are absolutely right
I want place like this
BEAUTIFUL ❤️ 😍
I always wanted to live in a brownstone house. I love the house and the windows!
This is gorgeous!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Image how much this was back then
It was sold for $9.5 Million in 2017...
Breath taking 💕
I Love it absolutely Beautiful ❤
beautiful
THANK MEGA MILLIONS
BEAUTIFUL......even If a ghost lived there......!!! I am a NY City person...I could live there....just need the $$$$$$$$...!!!
I couldn't live in a house with stories I'm nosey and scary someone could sneak in and be living on a floor especially the days before cameras everywhere
NY is crazy with its multi-leveled homes. Two stories is enough for me. Five stories is nice to visit, though.
my mother used to always tell me to Cherry Wood is one of the best Woods that you can buy because she had cherry wood furniture.
Beautiful property. I love NY.
Beautiful!!
I love Living Large. Terrence is a great broker.
I hope the man in the video is the realtor. I would hate to see this gentrified restoration go to anyone else
Ohhh you know its getting sold recertification style. Hopefully it will be a person of color idk.13million! Thats like 3 million a floor!!!
Stunning 👌
I need an elevator for all those stairs
Beautiful
She didn’t own the house. She only rented part of the house.
My friend used to live here when it was still apartments.
Wonder how much she paid for it then. 13 million now, WOW!!!! Just watched "Lady Sings The Blues" for the millionth time. And I get emotional each time. Such a tragedy. You'll remain an icon "Lady Day." 🌹🌹🌹🌹
When he died he only had a dollar or two in his bank account and fifty dollars taped to his body!
@@Startac2007
She not he
No parking
$13 million & No Parking Space😁
Shit they're ,Crazy ❗
Facts lol
TWO dual dishwashers? So.. It has four?
Wow so gorgeous
I must have it ❤️🙏🏾
That's why they kept locking her up, had to get that land/property👀👮♂️🕵
Ah hahaha!😂😂😂
sad
sad is when she died the only cash she had on her was pinned inside her clothes.
Hmm?
She didn't own this house for a fact. Sadly selled herself short as for the licences. Sad.
Billie Holiday lived in the basement.WTF !
I knew it was a lie too. She was a very good jazz dinger. Hi singer. She was shooting heroin back then in those days she did not have that kind of money to own that house.lol
@@julieshepard1616 You wrong she did own this house. My mother was a good friend of Billie.
No, she rented the ground floor apt.
Julie Shepard in those days she could have had that entire brownstone for $10,000
@@margoholmans4139 Good point. It is highly unlikely she owned the building, but rented a room in the building.
My understanding was Lady Day lived in the basement. Did she buy this building?
Gussie Williams she died practically penniless so I don’t think so.
And basement in a nyc brownstone is not really a basement
@@chloestewart1902 Right. Smh. I was waiting to see if anybody was going to educate these people who do not live in New York about the way they term the apartments here. There is a basement then there is the ground level which is called the basement. The level above the ground is called the parlor floor and so on. She have a basement apartment which was the ground level or garden apartment
Insane! Absolutely stunning ! To think she had achieved this level of success this house is amazing can only imagine what it meant in the 1950s wow! But with all of her issues and drug abuse im sure the house was in bad condition .. we are seeing the 2021 modern version of the home.. im sure Ms Holliday version wasnt this nice ...
Thats HOW SHE should HAD LIVED but UNFORUNATLEY we SEE what they did with her M in Millions she NEVER received THEN&NOW ...#StrangeFruit
Hard to believe she had the riches to afford that... like Judy Garland it seems she was running for her life going from crisis to crisis - but it’s a beautiful dream though .
Exactly
Judy did have the government after her for drugs she used
Everybody hates chris was filmed there
$13 million . . . does that come with furniture ? 😬🇺🇸
Beautiful but 13million no back yard, no front yard, and you dont own the land. Smh They're really doing too much.
Is it sold yet?
That building is freaking gorgeous 😍 and that’s saying a lot because I hate nyc lol
Why didn't keep the original stuff in there huhhhhh
Billie Holiday's former home is obviously Gorgeous ‼️ but there's no way I could live there. There's probably a good reason why it's still empty. Billie Holiday's home is probably still occupied. If I'm not mistaken, didn't she die there ⁉️. It would do me no favors to be sleeping and here someone's voice saying GET OUT, THIS IS MY HOME‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️⁉️⁉️⁉️🤦🕸️🕷️💀😵☠️🧟👹😫😱😲🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃👁️👁️👻👺😈🦴👁️👁️.
She died in the hospital.
Lmfaooooo these comments are so shady
People are so fucked up. Years later people feel special “the legendary Jazz singer Bille Holiday” they forgot to mention how she was treated like shit and killed her. Isolated her from the world tied down to a hospital bed. She died with less than a dollar to her name. $13Million my ass!
Ahora si pues , después que la gente se muere entonces todo el mundo quiere sacar provecho del nombre y sufrimiento de otro..No te digo yo...
The West Side????
I don't think so!
I wanted to like this video but I cannot. I realize that this was not Billie Holiday's mansion. She could have owned it had they not cheated her out of the millions of dollars she earned and deserved. She probably rented the basement of this beautiful building, if she had any ownership in it at all. To hell with this stuffy building, begging for gentrification, as if New York City needs more of that nonsense. Only God gave Billie Holiday what she truly deserved -- a grand and glorious mansion in Heaven. RIP our Lady of the Blues! I look forward to drinking and laughing with you one day in your heavenly mansion. Say hi to God for me please.
My husband's cousin . We must visit.
The cost was 13 million for her to live there,.. or did she own it???
Your comment shows you are out of touch with reality
Central park?....
You mean Seneca Village!
Did she really "own" the home? When she died, she had no children. Who was the estate owner? TOO many stairs and staircases.
Lis Wright!! Mrs. Billie Holiday Died In 1959.. I Don't Know If That Her Whole Home!! Or Was It Other's Celebrities That Had Appartments Or Rooms - In The Same Complex Building!! P.S. I Keep Hearing 👂.. That Mrs. Billie Holiday Rented Out The Basement To Live In!! While The Other Different Race Of. Jazz Celebrities, And The Movie Stars 🎥.. Had The Best That Is.. Due To Her Husband's Taking Her Money And The Government On Top Of Getting Onto The Seen 👀 👀.. ( My Statement - I Do Believe That ).
She owned the home. She did have a will so her husband received her estate. Her husband before dying left it to his son
No, Billie did not own this home. She and hubby rented 1B of the building. There were other tenants living on different floors. Obviously, someone bought the entire building, kicked out the tenants and RENOVATED it as a family home. I will bet you the steps to the front of the building are not even original. There were no walk-in closets or wine cellar for Lady Day. She died broke with less than $50 in cash strapped to her leg in the hospital.
Her mean ass husband who died many years after her and his later wife and son has her estate music and all. Sad
@@KS-qf8hd That's Sad!! If Mrs. Billie Holiday Have Any Living Family Member's!! They Need To Sue Louis McKay Family - To Get All Belongings Back.
I don't see it, sorry.
Not at all impressed by the way rich people live, but I’m super impressed by the way Billie Holiday lived!
13 million 🤔. I wonder who's going to pay that.
I am in love! ❤️
More lies. Shame!
Dimitri Merritt why you say lies? Billie Holiday didn’t live there? I know it didn’t have all that glass in the bathroom and stainless steel in the kitchen but, what makes you think she didn’t live there?