Kathryn Bigelow is aggressively marketing her Tribeca pied-a-terre at this point: a $150K reduction is certainly significant for the property. The director of ‘Near Dark’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ paid about $3 million for the apartment in 2015, and is now asking $2.75 million, from an initial asking price of $2.895 million.

The apartment features high end appointments: motorized window shades, Carrera marble master bath, audiophile surround-sound hardwiring, and Shinnoki kitchen cabinetry. Wide plank oak floors, living/dining room gas fireplace, heated bathroom floors, and a master suite cedar balcony fill out the profile. There are two bedrooms and two baths, including the master suite. The apartment measures about 1,700 square feet overall, including the 32 square foot balcony.

The brick building was constructed around 1920, and much of the original design appeal has been retained: segmented windows, very open common area, and an unadorned style. The luxurious veneer added to the fashionable residences, and the lingering historic veneer of the buildings they’re located in, says everything about the desire for aesthetic reconciliation in the West Village of today. The promise of such a reconciliation may be the most intoxicating luxury of all.

Kathryn Bigelow’s examination of overlapping American and vampire myth in 1987’s ‘Near Dark’ sealed her career quickly among Hollywood greelighters, and critics too; she took home an Oscar for directing 2009’s ‘The Hurt Locker.’ Her 2012 film ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ can be seen as both a clinical and difficult examination of both emotional/professional and military/civilian contradictions, and a statement about an America coming to terms with its own collapsing idealism.