Will Smith is back in New York, and once again looking for a home. Earlier this week, he visited a $19,900-a-month penthouse at 640 Broadway, known as 640 NoHo. Smith conspicuously arrived via an Escalade convoy that carried his family and entourage in tow. The crew included Will, wife Jada, daughter Willow, an assistant, a bodyguard and a broker.
The penthouse loft features vaulted, 12-foot ceilings and a 1,000-square-foot private roof deck accessed by way of a steel and glass staircase. Smith loved the loft, set in a stunning 1896 building by Macy’s Herald Square architects DeLemos & Cordes, however, spies say it wasn’t “private” enough for him. Odd, since the last time Smith lived in New York, he outraged his SoHo neighbors by planting his double-decker movie trailer digs — a $2.5 million trailer, nicknamed “The Heat”— plus another gym trailer, on the street.
“Hard-working New Yorkers have a right to wake up in the morning and not find a cruise ship parked out in front of their house,” said Public Safety Committee chair Peter Vallone Jr. at the time. “This is New York, not Hollywood. We don’t roll that way.”
The listing broker for the 640 NoHo unit, Rory Nichols, of Town Residential, declined to comment.