Renowned artist Lorna Simpson is still seeking a buyer for her light-filled Brooklyn home and studio, which has been on the market for months, reports Curbed, which notes that the price has been slashed.
Located at 208 Vanderbilt Avenue in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, the property was listed with Corcoran as recently as August 2025 at $6.5 million, Artnet News reported at the time. The 3,300-square-foot townhouse, built by architect David Adjaye in 2006, features three bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and a backyard.
The Ghanaian-British architect was the subject of a Financial Times report in 2023 that included allegations that he sexually assaulted and harassed three former employees and created a toxic work culture. Museums that had brought him on to design new buildings, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, quickly distanced themselves from the architect. Adjaye called the FT report “deeply unfair,” without specifying how.
Adjaye’s name does not appear in the Corcoran listing.
Now, the price is just $5 million, a nearly twenty-five percent cut, per Corcoran’s listing. According to Corcoran’s mortgage calculator, with a $1 million down payment, on a thirty-year fixed-rate mortgage at a 6.375 percent interest rate, a buyer would pay just shy of $26,000 a month, including monthly taxes of $1,103.
Simpson is primarily known as a photographer, but her paintings were the subject of a recent exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Measuring 22 feet wide, the home was designed for Simpson and her then-husband, artist James Casebere. It offers a double-height great room whose floor-to-ceiling glass windows look out onto a garden. “Whether you need a live/work setup, a private gallery, or room to grow, this home provides the space and scale to accommodate it all,” says Corcoran’s listing, which touts a location near Fort Greene Park, BAM, “and many of Brooklyn’s best dining and shopping destinations.”
Corocoran’s listing indicates that the property is “trending” and at a “reduced price.”
