After less than two years of ownership, Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow has listed her Tribeca pied-a-terre. Bigelow purchased the unit for $3.03 million in March 2015, and recently listed it for $2.895 million; a sudden change of heart, it seems.

With an elevator entry to the open-plan dining room, living room and kitchen, the 1,665 square foot living space is compact, but very upscale. Light fixtures and windows are pleasingly unadorned, allowing the building’s character to shine through unimpeded. Appointments such as motorized shades, Carrera marble master bath, audiophile surround-sound hardwiring, and Shinnoki kitchen cabinetry make the condo pure Tribeca; as an exquisite veneer, Shinnoki is representative. Other nice touches include wide plank oak floors, living/dining room gas fireplace, heated bathroom floors, and a master suite cedar balcony. There are two bedrooms and two baths, including the master suite.

The brick building was constructed around 1920, and has the historical feel which holds much of Tribeca’s appeal; the substantial, accumulated quality—as well as incipient grit—of old-fashioned New York, and a Greenwich Village that is now the stuff of myth.

Kathryn Bigelow studied with Susan Sontag as a graduate student at Columbia University. She came to prominence after directing the 1987 vampire revision ‘Near Dark’; she took home her Oscar in 2010 for ‘The Hurt Locker.’ Her 2012 film ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ remains the most potent creative statement extant on the blurring of civilian and military sensibilities in present-day America.