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# For Sale: Synthpop Icon’s Home And ‘The Squid & The Whale’ Brownstone
- URL: https://bklyner.com/sale-synthpop-icons-home-squid-whale-brownstone/
- Published: 2017-04-14T18:00:41.000Z
- Updated: 2017-04-14T20:50:09.000Z
- Author: Pamela Wong
- Tags: celebrity, Nonsponsored, North Western Brooklyn, Park Slope, Real Estate, 167 6th Avenue, 178 Garfield Place, Jenna Lyons, Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale, Tracy Hurley Martin, Vince Clarke, #wp

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178 Garfield Street (Photo via [Core NYC](http://corenyc.com/178-garfield-place?ref=bklyner.com))

How is it I am only learning that Erasure’s Vince Clarke lived in Park Slope now that he’s moving?

Clarke (who co-founded Depeche Mode and Yaz in the early 80s) and his wife, Tracy Hurley Martin (who was a co-owner of Gowanus’ beloved [Morbid Anatomy Museum](/morbid-anatomy-museum-in-gowanus-has-closed-rebirth-promised/) which closed late last year), have put their stunning 178 Garfield Place (between 6th & 7th Avenues) townhouse on the market for just under $6 million, [Brooklyn Vegan reports](http://www.brooklynvegan.com/buy-vince-clarkes-brooklyn-house/?ref=bklyner.com#photogallery-1=10).

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178 Garfield Street (Photo via [Core NYC](http://corenyc.com/178-garfield-place?ref=bklyner.com))

The beautiful home has a pedigree—Clarke and Martin [purchased](http://ny.curbed.com/2017/2/6/14522584/brooklyn-park-slope-townhouse-roman-williams?ref=bklyner.com) the 19th-century townhouse from J. Crew’s (soon to be former) President and Creative Director Jenna Lyons in 2012\. The house made quite a splash in the home design world after [Domino magazine](http://domino.com/jenna-lyons-totally-modern-timelessness?ref=bklyner.com) featured a spread of Lyons in her well-appointed abode in 2008.

The 3,600-square-foot home features six bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a chef’s kitchen, and a landscaped and irrigated south-facing garden. I can’t help but wonder if Clarke ever had Alison Moyet and Andy Bell over for tea in the garden, or the Depeche Mode guys over for a barbecue in the backyard…

See the full listing [here](http://corenyc.com/178-garfield-place?ref=bklyner.com).

In other Park Slope real estate news, the 167 6th Avenue (between Saint Johns & Lincoln Places) brownstone that featured prominently in Noah Baumbach’s 2005 indie film, [*The Squid and the Whale*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367089/?ref=bklyner.com), is also on the market for just below $5 million.

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-14-at-1.32.44-PM.png)

167 6th Avenue (Photo via [Corcoran](http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/4742795?ref=bklyner.com))

Built in 1874, the home has five bedrooms, three baths, four fireplaces, and a yoga room with slate, radiant-heated floors!

See the listing for the movie-star brownstone [here](http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/4742795?ref=bklyner.com).