Beginning in the early 1990s until the rest of his life, Bowie spent most of his time living in New York. Between 1992 and 2002, Bowie and Iman lived in a condominium at Essex House, the acclaimed residential hotel overlooking Central Park. At 1,877 square feet, the home might feel humble compared to his grand home in Switzerland, but there’s no doubt that the residence there had a number of luxury amenities. The home recently hit the market in 2021 and sold for $6 million.
285 Lafayette Street, New York
In 1999, Bowie and Iman bought another apartment in New York City, this time a SoHo pad for $3.81 million. The four-bedroom apartment measures 5,000 square feet, plus 1,000 square feet of outdoor space on three terraces, it is reported. The Wall Street Journal. While there could be several reasons why Bowie and Iman decided to move into this apartment, their first and only child was born in 2000 and the SoHo home definitely offered a lot more space for the family.
Upstate Home, Woodstock, New York
For a long time, Bowie and Iman’s Woodstock home was a total secret. Even today, little is known about its precise location. According to a 2021 Vogue profile of Iman, Bowie first became interested in Woodstock in 2002 after recording his album heathen at Allaire Studios, in neighboring Shokan. The couple bought the 50-acre property in 2011, attracted by its total seclusion, and Iman still owns it today. “They intended it to be their forever home, the place they would be when they were old and gray,” says Iman’s model, activist and friend Bethann Hardison. Vogue history
