Denzel Thriller’s Brooklyn Penthouse: 33rd-Floor Views Listed for $15M
Kai Montgomery here, reluctantly sharing the skyline gossip you probably didn’t need but will obsess over anyway. Look, I don’t want to gush about real estate cameos in Hollywood films, but when Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky lounge in a genuine Brooklyn penthouse that’s actually for sale, you sit up and take notes.
If you caught the trailer for Spike Lee’s new thriller Highest 2 Lowest, you spotted more than dramatic monologues and tense close-ups; you saw Penthouse A at Olympia Dumbo, the entire top of 30 Front St., making a glossy, very real appearance. No set dressing on a soundstage will fool you here: the listing confirms that the apartment occupies the whole 33rd floor and offers authentic, sweeping views of the East River and both the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.
Now for the painfully obvious headline: it’s listed at $15 million. Yes, fifteen million dollars buys you 4,266 square feet of high-ceilinged living with ceilings up to 13 feet, four bedrooms, three and a half baths, and a private terrace measuring 498 square feet. You exit a private elevator into a formal foyer that leads to living and dining spaces framed by those cinematic panoramas. Want opulence? The wet bar is wrapped in Calacatta Vagli Oro marble. The kitchen is a Workstead design fitted with Gaggenau appliances. The primary suite boasts dual walk-in closets and a stone-clad bath with twin showers, dual water closets, and a freestanding tub, because of course it does.
The building isn’t stingy on extras either. Olympia Dumbo piles on over 38,000 square feet of amenities across three levels. That includes indoor and outdoor pools, a sauna, steam room, a juice bar to make you feel virtuous after you skip a workout, spin and boxing studios, even a bowling alley and children’s play spaces. For those who like to serve aces with a view, there’s a rooftop tennis court advertised as the highest in New York City — conveniently timed for US Open chatter. Private parking is available too, which is a relief in Brooklyn if you enjoy the idea of not circling for an hour like a stressed hawk.
The unit was listed by John B Gomes of Douglas Elliman, and you might remember the neighboring top-floor residence, Penthouse B, which also appeared in the film and briefly hit the market for $17.5 million back in June before being taken off. So yes, Spike Lee’s production used real, market-ready digs rather than staging a fake upper-crust lair. The film itself, a ransom-plot thriller with Denzel playing a music mogul under threat, has already earned critical favor with a 92 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, so expect the property cameo to get noticed.
Real estate cameo or product placement? Call it clever cross-pollination. The penthouse gets screentime that doubles as high-end advertising, and a buyer gets the kind of bragging rights that come with cinematic provenance. For folks who want their next party to be both a social event and a film festival, that terrace and that skyline view do most of the heavy lifting.
So yes, the penthouse is glamorous, practical, and priced like premium air. You’ll either see it as a savvy real estate buy with celebrity pedigree or an expensive prop where Denzel once looked brooding. Either way, it’s unlikely to languish if someone with a taste for drama and deep pockets is watching the trailers.
Want to own a slice of Spike Lee scenery? Have $15 million and a fondness for marble and rooftop tennis? The offer stands. And if you don’t, enjoy the trailer and the envy it induces.
And that, dear reader, is why we can’t have nice things without a price tag.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and New York Post, Rotten Tomatoes, Douglas Elliman listing
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