Jason Blum Is Selling His Brooklyn Heights Townhouse

16 Sidney Place, which last sold in 2019, is back on the market with a softer renovation and a higher asking price. Photo: Hayley Ellen Day Brooklyn Heights is known for its genteel old architecture, but when 16 Sidney Place sold to Hollywood producer Jason Blum and his wife, screenwriter Lauren Schuker Blum, in 2019, the turn-of-the-century townhouse had a stark, modern style more suited to a midtown penthouse. There was an open, glass-and-steel staircase reminiscent of the Apple store, cement floors, and gas fireplaces set flush into the walls. The kitchen was a nearly reflective white. It was a look but apparently not one the buyers loved, as they decided to undertake a full renovation. (They weren’t the only ones to find the super-sleek style off-putting; the house took two years to sell and had several price cuts.) Now the couple will soon see if their own renovation is more immediately appealing: The townhouse just hit the market, asking $14.95 million. The house has a custom triple bunk bed tucked under a slanted ceiling. Photo: Hayley Ellen Day The space looks quite a bit different now: There’s a lot more color, molding, and pattern, creating what listing broker James Lee Wall, of Leslie Garfield, describes as a kind of “West Coast warmth.” The renovation, done by L.A.-based design firm Studio Shamshiri, involved enclosing the staircase and softening the flooring (along with everything else). There’s wall-to-wall carpeting in many of the rooms and in the primary suite, leather floors. “It feels good underfoot,” says Wall. “It’s very soft and unusual.” The home has other unusual features as well, like a custom triple bunk bed tucked under a skylight that’s cut to the angle of the slanted ceiling. While the home’s 6,600 square feet would seem to make such space-saving measures unnecessary — there are five bedrooms and 4.5 baths — it’s nice to think that the Blums’ three kids like to bunk together. The house also has an elevator, a gym, a garden, and a landscaped terrace. Wall says the sellers mostly live on the West Coast and also have a house in Connecticut; they decided they didn’t need a New York City residence as well. Blum, the CEO of Blumhouse Productions, is most well known for horror movies like Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Get Out. The house, which is 22 feet wide, sold to the Blums for $9.8 million in 2019, according to the New York Post. But prices have gone up since the pandemic and renovated houses of roughly equivalent size have traded at the new asking price: 307 Hicks, a 6,000-square-foot home with a new, though less bespoke, renovation, sold for $14.95 million in February. Wall says there’s a limited number of renovated townhouses on the market in Brooklyn Heights right now: 39 Willow, done in a more traditional style, is asking $12.75 million. And 175 Clinton is trying to get $17.95 million (it’s somewhat bigger and wider, at 25 feet wide, but the location, over by the Key Food and Atlantic Avenue, isn’t as charming). Sidney Place, a block-long street in the historic district, is also where Glossier founder Emily Weiss bought a $22 million townhouse a few years ago. The primary suite, which occupies its own floor, has leather floors. Photo: Hayley Ellen Day Colors and textures have been added throughout the house, which was previously sleekly modern. Photo: Hayley Ellen Day The kitchen overlooks the landscaped backyard. Photo: Hayley Ellen Day Sidney Place is a block-long street in the historic district. Glossier founder Emily Weiss also owns a townhouse on the block. Photo: Hayley Ellen Day Jason Blum Is Selling His Brooklyn Heights Townhouse Your product is saved! You’ll receive emails when your saved products go on sale. Manage preferences.