The East Village cottage perched above a luxury prewar building now known as Pear Tree Place is an edifice that lit the media on fire after it, literally, caught fire last summer.
Thankfully, no one was hurt.
The 1,972-square-foot rooftop duplex, we hear, suffered “minimal” damage, and even despite the blazing drama, still closed for $4.4 million.
It’s now set to rise like a phoenix as a $17,000-a-month rental.
The fire, Gimme Shelter has learned, was apparently caused by a common hot tub on the building’s roof.
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom home comes with four woodburning fireplaces and two private garden terraces that total 795 square feet.
The home boasts nearly 12-foot ceilings, lots of restored exposed brick, hardwood oak floors and a brick archway.
There’s also an open chef’s kitchen and hand-painted Victorian-era aluminum casted balusters lining a staircase that leads up to the master bedroom suite Part of the building dates back to 1865.
It is also the site of Peter Stuyvesant’s famed pear tree (get it?), and, more recently, it’s been home to the original Kiehl’s store.
The listing broker is Tamir Shemesh, of Corcoran.