When actor-comedian, Billy Crystal performed his one-man show, “700 Sundays,” on Broadway, a three-dimensional replica of the Long Beach house that he grew up in was used as the backdrop.
Well, it's been more than 28 Sundays since Newsday first reported that Crystal’s childhood home was on the market. Imagine that — even with a famous name attached to it, this two-family house — now priced at $625,000 — sits.
But it's not alone. Apparently, the city by the sea isn’t immune to market woes. “Houses are having a difficult time,” says Joyce Coletti of Prudential Douglas Elliman, who is marketing Crystal’s former home. What’s happening in Long Beach, Coletti adds, is that appropriately priced condos and co-ops are selling in about three months, while houses take a lot longer. We're talking as long as one year. And that’s no joke.
No word on whether Crystal's been back to visit the old neighborhood, but he was spotted in Douglaston, Queens last week at the bat mitzvah of a relative.