Two Rooms, One Pollock, $2 Million: The Manhattan Listing Florida Will Read Twice

A pair of rooms in Manhattan's West Village has come on the market asking $2 million, and the selling point is not square footage. Jackson Pollock lived there. Before he was the Abstract Expressionist whose name now carries a room on its own, he made his home in this small condo in the first years of the 1930s, sharing it with his elder brother. Readers who split the year between Palm Beach and a Manhattan pied-à-terre will do the arithmetic quickly: two rooms, seven figures, and a provenance that no renovation can add. Down here, that kind of money usually comes with a dock, a lanai, or at minimum a parking space. In the West Village, it comes with the knowledge that one of the century's defining painters once called the place home. Miami would have put his name on the building. Palm Beach would have kept it quiet and mentioned it at dinner. New York simply put it in the listing.

With reporting from Robb Report.