Lily Allen And David Harbour’s NYC Townhouse Is Listed For Sale Days After Her Album Release
Lily Allen and David Harbour have listed their Brooklyn townhouse for $8 million (£6 million), just days after the release of Allen’s devastating new album West End Girl — a tour de force that explicitly details alleged infidelity and the breakdown of their four-year marriage. The timing feels less like coincidence and more like the final chapter of a very public dissolution.
The late 19th-century brownstone in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, which the couple purchased in 2021 for $3.35 million (£2 million) and meticulously renovated with interior designer Billy Cotton and architect Ben Bischoff, now sits on the market as a five-bedroom, four-bathroom monument to a relationship that’s been thoroughly dissected across Allen’s first album in seven years.
For fans of the pair, the details of the marital home will come as no great surprise. It gained popularity in 2023 when Allen and Harbour gave Architectural Digest an intimate tour, with the Stranger Things actor praising his then-wife’s aesthetic vision. ‘Lily is someone who lives with colour in a deeper way than most. Her taste is bold, silly, fun, eccentric,’ Harbour said at the time. The home was described as a ‘weird’ and whimsical wonderland blending traditional English charm with Brooklyn sensibilities and Italian influences.
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Now, that tour has become what fans are calling ‘the most cursed AD video of all time,’ rewatched obsessively since West End Girl dropped on October 24 with lyrics that suggest the home itself witnessed betrayal.
The title track of the record references the house purchase itself, with Allen singing about feeling financially uncomfortable as her partner pushed to buy the brownstone: ‘Now I’m looking at houses with four or five floors / And you’ve found us a brownstone, said “You want it? It’s yours.”‘
More devastating is ‘Pussy Palace’, where Allen sings about discovering a partner’s West Village apartment — which she believed was a workspace — was actually being used for affairs. ‘I didn’t know it was your pussy palace,’ she sings with characteristic directness. ‘I always thought it was a dojo.’
Allen, who is believed to have filed for divorce in September after the couple separated in February 2025, has since moved back to London with her two daughters from her first marriage.
The townhouse sale completes the dismantling of what Allen once called her ‘fresh start’ in New York. She met Harbour on celebrity dating app Raya in 2019, married him in a secret Las Vegas ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator in 2020, and moved to New York so that they could build a life together.
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Naomi May is a seasoned culture journalist and editor with over ten years’ worth of experience in shaping stories and building digital communities. After graduating with a First Class Honours from City University’s prestigious Journalism course, Naomi joined the Evening Standard, where she worked across both the newspaper and website. She is now the Digital Editor at ELLE Magazine and has written features for the likes of The Guardian, Vogue, Vice and Refinery29, among many others. Naomi is also the host of the ELLE Collective book club.
