A West Village Townhouse Tied to New York’s Arts Scene Lists for $18M

For decades, one Downing Street was a convivial hub for family, friends, and people in the arts. The nearly 9,000-square-foot townhouse in the heart of the was, beginning in 1999, the home of David Doubleday Holbrook, an executive at the professional services firm Marsh & McLennan and an ardent supporter of New York’s cultural life. Holbrook served as chair of the Theater Development Fund—he was instrumental in moving TKTS from a trailer to its now-famous booth tucked under a broad flight of red steps in Times Square, which bears his name—and sat on the boards of the Joffrey Ballet, the Joyce Theater, and the Noguchi Museum.

His son, Chris Holbrook, remembers the house as a stage of sorts, where family milestones and gatherings of the city’s arts and culture leaders unfolded side by side.