For just $49.9 mil, you can own Billy Joel's NY mansion

[Pink Freud]

The NY Times says "A teenager, then known as William Martin Joel, lived in the working-class suburb of Hicksville NY — his family so limited that they didn’t own a TV. He took a tiring minimum wage job dredging oysters.

The dredge crisscrossed the waters of Long Island Sound, including a bay that...faces some of the most expensive real estate in the United States. From the boat, he could see a stately brick mansion. 'Rich bastards,' he thought to himself. 'I’ll never live in a house like that.' "

Come 2002, he did. Now, with his daughters enrolled in school in Florida and his 100-concert MSG residency over, he's "Movin' Out". He had named the estate Middle Sea, both for its Gatsby-esque location on Oyster Bay at Cold Spring Harbour, and for the first piano note he learned to play.

$49.9 mil gets you "...26 acres with a main house, a beach house and two guesthouses, totaling 18 bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, as well as three swimming pools, a bowling alley and a helipad", which Joel used to fly 13 minutes to MSG for his local concerts.

[edwin drood]

Nice digs...
https://toptenrealestatedeals.com/weekl ... da-mansion

[Ed Fraser]

Billy Joel sucks. Hope he moves into a trailer court.

[charlesmastis]

$49.9 They didn't want to list at 50 because that would cause sticker shock.

[Pink Freud]

It sold for $42 mil.