A DJ and a designer profit big on a Cobble Hill row house

The deal for Athena and Victor Calderone’s townhouse is one of Brooklyn’s largest residential transactions in months

BY C. J. HUGHES

ABrooklyn couple—she’s an interior designer and author; he’s a housemusic disc jockey who’s worked with Madonna—have shown they have a knack for real estate.

Athena and Victor Calderone have sold their two-family row house at 128 Pacific St. in Cobble Hill for $11.8 million, according to public records. The deal, which closed March 10, appears to be one of the largest residential transac-

$11.8M

York attorney, Janice E. Levine, sign the deed, according to records.

Midas touch

It’s not the first dwelling to benefit from the couple’s Midas touch. Indeed, 128 Pacific St. is at least the eighth property that they have purchased, restyled and resold, ac cording to an interview that appeared in Architectural Digest magazine in 2018. Others were in Bensonhurst and Dumbo.

THE CAlDERONES pAID ABOUT $4 MIllION FOR THE STOOP-FRONTED, 25-FOOTWIDE PROPERTY IN 2015

tions in Brooklyn in months.

It’s also one that seems to have allowed the Calderones to almost triple their investment. They paid about $4 million for the stoop-fronted, 25-foot-wide property in 2015, then a four-unit rental, records show. But the couple had to undertake a top-to-bottom renovation of the Greek Revival landmark before selling it.

In addition to combining four residences into two, the makeover refurbished the home with darktoned and bookcase-lined rooms, minimalist baths and a marble-clad kitchen, along with a recording studio.

The buyer was Almostca, a limited liability company that had a New

For years pictures of the Cobble Hill address have regularly turned up on social media and on other sites. In 2020, 128 Pacific St., outfitted with an extra-long dining table, enjoyed a star turn as the setting for a celebrity-studded book party for Athena Calderone’s Live Beautiful, a coffee-table-type compendium of attractive homes, including her own.

The buzzy coverage perhaps gave the Calderones the confidence to eschew traditional marketing in order to sell their home; 128 Pacific St. found a buyer without ever being publicly listed, said Karen Heyman, the Sotheby’s agent in charge of the below-the-radar approach who otherwise had no comment. A spokeswoman for Athena Calderone had no comment.

Athena Calderone, a former model who in 2012 launched EyeSwoon, a furnishings company that sells flatware, rugs and robes, was reportedly working as a bar-