One of Taylor Swift's new songs mentions a Greenwich Village home she rented in 2016 'on Cornelia Street.' Here's a look inside the 3-story townhouse.
"Cornelia Street" is the ninth song off of "Lover," Taylor Swift's latest album — the first of her records that she owns the rights to herself.
"'I rent a place on Cornelia Street,' I say casually in the car," Swift sings in the first verse — and it's pretty literal. The pop superstar did rent 23 Cornelia Street for a few months between 2016 and 2017, according to People.
Source: People
The townhouse is located in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan in New York City, which is about 15 minutes away from Midtown by subway and just a quarter-mile west of Washington Square Park.
Source: Google Maps
Curbed reports that Swift rented the three-story property for about $39,500 a month while one of her three Tribeca apartments was undergoing renovations.
Source: Curbed, Business Insider
Per the recently sold property's listing, the renovated kitchen features a Wolf electronic oven/gas stove, a Subzero fridge, a wine fridge, a double-drawer dishwasher, and granite counter tops.
Source: Corcoran
There's also an indoor pool, which measures 30 feet by 15 feet and is surrounded by a Basalt stone tile floor.
Source: Corcoran
At the time Swift was renting it, 23 Cornelia Street was owned by David Aldea, a former executive at Soho House, a hotel chain and group of private members' clubs.
Source: People
Swift's former landlord, who sold the home for $11.5 million in early 2019 after owning it for 15 years, apparently had no idea who the songstress was when her people reached out about renting his property.
Source: People
“I’m just not a pop-culture guy, and I even said to someone, ‘I’m meeting a person named Taylor Swift who wants to rent my home,’” Aldea told Vulture earlier this week.
"Now, mind you, I knew her songs because I had them on my running playlist. I just didn't match the name to the song. I know, it's silly," he added.
And for the record, Aldea also said Swift was "an absolute delight to deal with" during the rental process and he was "so honored" she wrote a song about his former home.
"I put my heart and soul into building, designing, and decorating this house, and for somebody like Taylor to come along and see what I saw and love what I loved, love what I created, it was a total compliment and I will always be grateful to her for that," he told Vulture. "And when I heard the song came out, I just thought to myself, 'Wow, that is the most incredible sort of thank-you and nod that anyone could ever get.'"
Source: Vulture
"Cornelia Street," one of three "Lover" songs Swift wrote on her own, is about the early stages of a new relationship. In it, she sings that she'd "never walk Cornelia Street again" if the romance were to end because "that's the kinda heartbreak time could never mend."
Swift explained the song's meaning during an August 23 appearance on Elvis Duran's radio show: "It's about the things that took place and the memories that took place on that street […] all the nostalgia. Sometimes we bond our memories to the places that they happen. I wrote it alone and it ended up being one of my favorite songs."
Popular Right Now
Advertisement