The Weeknd’s former NYC penthouse rental asks $35M

A glamorous penthouse triplex where The Weeknd once lived with his then-girlfriend Bella Hadid is now on the market for $35 million. 

Canadian-born Grammy-winning star Abel Tesfaye moved into the penthouse at 443 Greenwich St. in 2018 when it was asking $60,000 a month. He extended his lease during the pandemic, Gimme Shelter reported, when he was no longer dating Hadid. 

The penthouse also comes with a coveted parking spot. There are just 12 of those in the building and they are rarely for sale. But when they are on the market, they sell for around $1.5 million apiece.

The apartment, known as penthouse D, is in a former 19th-century book-binding factory on a charming, cobblestoned Tribeca street. The conversion is by the architecture firm CetraRuddy.

443 Greenwich quickly became popular among A-listers, not just for its trendy location, but also for its privacy features. Past and present residents include Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel, Meg Ryan, Rebel Wilson, Harry Styles, Formula One champ Lewis Hamilton and Jennifer Lawrence.

This penthouse is around 5,000 square feet inside and comes with an additional 1,000 square feet of outdoor space. Inside, it features four bedrooms and 4.5 baths.  

The smart-wired home opens from a key-locked elevator to a marble foyer that leads to a great room with exposed reclaimed double height ceilings, seven large windows and a marble gas fireplace. 

Design details include a Christopher Peacock chef’s kitchen and a windowed home office, plus wide-plank white oak floors, custom closets and lots of storage. 

A primary bedroom suite on the second level comes with a dressing area and a spa-like bath with radiant heated floors. There’s also a second ensuite bedroom on this floor, plus a bonus room that could be a flex den or a fourth bedroom. 

The top floor boasts a swanky lounge framed by accordion glass doors that open to the landscaped roof terrace, complete with skyline views, an outdoor kitchen — and built-in lighting, sound and irrigation.

The building’s developer, Metro Loft’s Nathan Berman, once told Gimme that its then-most famous residents, Timberlake and Biel, scored a $7 million celeb discount on their purchase of a different penthouse unit at 443 Greenwich because “we want people like that in the building.” (Timberlake and Biel paid $20.18 million for their unit in 2017.)

Those discount days are over, said this penthouse’s listing broker Jared Schwadron, of Compass. The unit, which comes with $11,362 a month in common charges, was last asking $27.5 million in 2021 and 2022; last year it was also offered as an $80,000-a-month rental. It rented and is now vacant and staged.

The new $35 million asking price correlates “to the demand for the building,” Schwadron said.

“The apartment has had limited use since the first closings in 2016. Most of the tenants used it as a pied-à-terre,” Schwadron said.

“It’s a generational building. There are people that will never sell and they will give the apartments to their children,” Schwadron added.