Augusten Burroughs who authored "Running with Scissors," "Dry," and "Wolf at the Table," wants to sell his condo. The Battery Park City studio condo of the author at 225 Rector Place is plain and neutral and void of any whistles and bells.
The property was purchased by Burroughs's past partner Dennis Pilsits for $600,767 in 2008, and transferred it over to Burroughs in 2011, presumably as a settlement of their split. According to city records, the #1 bestselling author is selling his pad for only $637,000 as reported by 6sqft news.
The 615-square-foot condo offers picturesque views of Hudson and East Rivers and the Statue of Liberty. The interior of the condo looks pretty, and the floors and kitchen still looks nice and new. The building has a roof deck, a full-service gym, and indoor pool with a steam room.
The Battery Park City condo of Burroughs is the first apartment he's ever owned.
Yair Levy, the developer of Mr. Burrough's condo at 225 Rector Place, had actually fled the country, and it is true that the ill-fated conversion process of the building has been miserable as a tale from Mr. Burrough's own famously miserable childhood.
Mr. Burroughs was worried that he had brought his bad fate to the building. In fact, when Mr. Burroughs built a house in 2005 with his former partner, Dennis Pilsits, in Amherst, Mass., he said he installed lightning protection, "because I'm the sort of person who gets struck by lightning." The house instead was flooded, wrecking the couple's first Christmas there as reported by the New York Times news.
Mr. Burroughs's apartment is a comfortable home. "It fits the person I am," he said. "Not the person I'd like to be."
Mr. Burroughs has skipped college and most of his high school, but he did spend nine months at the Control Data Institute.
Born Christopher Robison, Mr. Burroughs changed his name on his 18th birthday to Augusten Xon Burroughs, where his last name derived from a manufacturer of mainframe computers.
