The extremely bohemian East Village loft that photographer Robert Frank and artist June Leaf called home for more than 40 years is on the market, with an asking price of $6.5 million.
That hefty sum will gain you access to no small amount of Lower Manhattan lore, as the two artists made their home/studio at 7 Bleecker Street, near the Bowery, a sort of meeting place for New York’s finest creatives of all kinds. As noted by Curbed, “Unlike other artists who showed at MoMA and sold at auction for hundreds of thousands, Frank made himself easy to find—setting out a folding chair onto the sidewalk, often alongside a second seat for his wife, the sculptor June Leaf.”
Frank died in 2019, after a long life devoted to photography (most notably in his epochal 1959 photo book The Americans) and filmmaking (most notoriously in his never-officially-released 1972 Rolling Stones documentary Cocksucker Blues). Leaf passed away in 2024, a year before a retrospective at the NYU’s Grey Art Museum paid tribute to her decades of work. She is best-known as a maker of dynamic figurative sculpture fashioned from wire and other materials.
Below, see some highlights from the listing for the townhouse from Corcoran real estate, which notes: “Currently configured as 2 residential units over an artist’s studio, this mixed-use property will be delivered vacant.”
