@@emilymalden3310 Trust me, you wouldn’t want to live on 87th street! Believe me, the novelty wears off quick, and the reality of living around monsters replaces it!
If anyone has a chance to visit St Ramonds Cemetery in the Bronx. be sure to leave a stone on Billie's "FINAL" resting place. Sleep in peace dear child, your heart will go on.
AMEN!! I Don't Know Why Our Black African Celebrities Running 🏃 Around Making And Want Our Money And Our Television Rantings 📺.. But They Can't Go To Mrs. Billie Holiday Grave Site 🌼 🌼.. To See 👀 If She Needs Tomb Stone Repair Or Needs One Period.. R.I.P. Lady Day 🎼🙏 🎼 🙏.
I'm from NY and I sing a lot of her songs and have visit her grave sight but most of all im well pleased to know that she is still being honored for who she was. Im always educating young people about who she was as a psalmist and what she believed as a women of color. When I was a little girl families would keep flyers and newspaper clippings of the great musicians psalmist entertainers of color and explain to us why we should remember them and not forget about doors they are opening for us. Let's not forget our history and live in peace with one another.
It’s 62 years since we lost her on Saturday. I ordered a dozen long st roses to be delivered on Saturday to her final resting place. She liked gardenias. I couldn’t find any. We lost a lot when we lost her. I know the story and everything and I can honestly say I love every part of her.
I am born and raised in Harlem I once lived on 132nd street between 7th. AND LENOX AVENUES I WHILE LIVING THERE I MET A VERY OLD WOMAN WHO KNEW Billie Holiday and she said that Billie had lived there in that building for off and on for a while it wasn't a nice building then or now and people can attest to that! Her addiction seriously contributed to a life of uncertainties
Lady day. Is one of my favourite jazz singer. She was raw and real. Her life, was full of pain and sadness. You can hear it in her songs. She was abused by the men. Ripped off by the Business. Her voice has the power to touch you, make you cry. She was also a great songwriter. She is one of the greatest voice ever. There will never be another Billie Holiday.
Really from over 60 years ago 😩🤦🏽♀️😂 lolll not being an a-hole sorry i cant help but think that a woman who died that long ago , had probably several residents since then would have left the house untouched in over six decades
The last month of her life was spent handcuffed to a hospital bed. She was getting methadone for withdrawals (it helped) it was stopped, they stated she had pulmonary and cardiac issues. Pulmonary possibly due to smoking or (pneumonia) from bed confinement. You can argue some of the issues were caused by alcohol/tobacco and long term heroin use. In my opinion it was tithe methadone being stopped and bed confinement that did her in. They even barred visitors and took her record player and candy at her bedside. I consider this government sanctioned murder. Oh the best part everyone is dead that was involved and most records have been destroyed. I’m never going to criticize Lady Day honestly as bad as it sounds I love every part of her.
@@kcorn12kc Yes, you get a strike and can get your videos taken down if you use copyrighted music which is why creators are limited in the music they can use. I’m sure that some record label still owns her music catalogue.
Gina Friend I was going to say the same thing. Undoubtedly she rented a room long before this place was restored to the unimaginable, restored mansion we see here. If Billie had moved to France, I believe she would have lived in this kind of luxury.
They spittin on her grave n using her NAME, revenue millions of dollars. When she never GOT a M in Money or Millions n they gave a GOTDAMN DIME just to keep her depressed n surpassing the MISERABLY acts Committed against her...Let me go PLAY sum STRANGE FRUIT🤪 🥰
With foul America breathing down her back it was hard for her or on anyone but Ms Holiday still remained Lady Day🥰❤️🖤💚love you forever Billie rest in power❤️🖤💚
May Billie Holiday aka Lady day RIP! Unfortunately she didn’t own this home. She only lived on the first floor and this place was not restored, it was just renovated! Billie however should have owned this entire mansion with the way the Government and Feds treated her! SMH 🤦🏽♀️
I love Ms. Holiday but that doesn't mean I believe all this was hers at that time. As famous as she was, and as iconic and legendary as she is, she battled the heroine addiction that was extremely expensive. With that and her legal troubles, I doubt she could have afforded it. 😥
The house at 26 W. 87th St. represents the coda to Billie's story. While living in apartment #1B, she released one of her most famous albums, the haunting Lady in Satin (1958), and gradually succumbed to the effects of years of drug and alcohol abuse. In Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1991), writer Robert O'Meally described how Billie threw her last birthday party there in 1959: "Her place was on a pretty part of the street A large window overlooked a courtyard and garden. For the party she had put little tables of food in front of the window." Annie Ross (Holiday's close friend and a great jazz singer in her own right) also spoke about the apartment in Stuart Nicholson's Billie Holiday (1995): "I would go by her place not many people did, very, very few she would cook and I would play records She was on her way down and people, for whatever reason, don't like to be associated with people who aren't doing it or making it." According to a board member for the building, there was a fan- based effort several years ago to install a plaque in front, but nothing came of it.
I hate to say this, but Billie Holiday was NOT on here way down and so avoided. She was a drunk and heroin addict--ant that is NOT a pleasant person to be around--no matter their genius.
I’m still angry about what they did to her… and how they tried to cover it up by implying that she basically killed herself. Yes she struggled with addiction, but that horrible Harry Anslinger held her hostage in the hospital until she died and his actions were covered up by the media.
Billie Holiday neither owned this home nor did she live in the basement. Billie Holiday rented the ground floor 1-bedroom apartment in 1957, and lived there until her death in 1959. The apartment was small yet appeared to have been nicely appointed and furnished.
@@ladypaul7932 more than a house a Mansion! Go 'Billie' Gooooo! She is/was 'Legendary' Royalty and she lived like a Beautiful Soulful 'Queen'! God Bless Her!
Barbara k.. Something Don't Sound Right!! I Do Believe That Other Rich Jazz Celebrities, And Movie Star's Shared That Appartment Complex!! That Way Too Big - For Mrs. Billie Holiday 🌼 🌼.. To Live In.. By Knowing What Her Husband's Took From Her!! And On Top Of That - The Government On Her Back ⚖ ⚖.. As Well.. I Believed, If Anything That They Gave And Let Her Rent Out - The Basement Lower Section Of This Supposed Mansion Home 🏡.
Lady Paul not really .. many musicians especially black , shared homes back then .. the home i grew up in had a whole guess house out back , we never lived in it ... it was always used as a rental and other parts of the house rented out .. rooms etc .. so no you dont really Have the whole house
That is gorgeous. Doesn't matter if she lived on the roof. It was an incredible house. Somehow I cannot imagine the small dingy apartment in the basement (people write about). They say she believed and had the best.
THIS WOMAN LIVED LARGE... BILLIE WAS AN HONEST WOMAN... PLAINLY WAS IN PAIN, BUT SUAVE IN HER BUSINESS... THE WOMAN TOOK CARE OF BUSINESS... WE SHALL SEE HER AGAIN IN ON RESURRECTION DAY😇
No, sorry but you don’t know what you are talking about. I had 2 aunts that lived in NYC next to her, and they were friends , so I grew up hearing about Billie all my life and all the pictures my aunts had with her, yes she was honest and bold but she was drawn to men who abused her and took her money. So she did not live large and she couldn’t have with the heavy heroin and alcohol addiction she had. But she is one of greatest Jazz artist of all time.
The RU-vid production wants to give the impression that Billie Holiday owned the building and lived in the entire building. In reality, she lived in Apartment 1B, being one tenant in a building of several other tenants, And, of course, the rent would have been what, less than $100/month and the building in 1959 could have been bought for maybe $10,000.
Carolyn Gardner not n all brownstones. I live in a brownstone my entire life and always have the second floor front bay windows fireplace wood floors high ceilings. But the other part of the brownstone have other tenants. Therefore we don’t live the entire brownstone not allowed in the other parts
@@waynej2608 She was in the sunset of her life and money was very tight. That basement apartment was her last home before her hospitalization and death in the summer of '59.
michael morgan!! I Believe Mrs. Billie Holiday 🌼 🌼 - Had The Basement Lower Level!! Because Of What She Been Going Through With Both Of Her Husband's - And - Government Taking Her Earnings.. Because Of Her Drug Abuse 💉 Habit.. From Seeing A Body Hanging From A Tree 🌳 Earlier In Her Jazz Career!! While Touring Down In The Deep South.. P.S. The Media Say Anything Just For Likes 👍.. That's Why Lee Daniels Had To Dig Deep Into ( The United State's Vs. Billie Holiday ).. Because Of Lies Like This.. Saying She Had Money 💵 💵.. And Was Living Good When She Wasn't.
That house is beautiful but mammoth. I'd drive myself crazy peeking around doors and down hallways to see what's lurking. I'm very leery of huge places.
I couldn't live in a house with stories I'm nosey and scary someone could sneak in and be living on a floor especially the days before cameras everywhere
One day (within the next year) Eye'm going to go stand in front maybe smoke a jont and just feel the vibes and the scenery she used to see and feel on the daily..
Makes no sense with absolutely NO LAND. You can live In the south, have a house built that big with more land than you can handle without buildings being squeezed together like a sardine can and pay less than one million. Poor money managing....
Job economics are higher in the North and more culture. At one time this wasn’t this price. If someone bought it 15-25 years ago and restored it over time made an amazing investment.
@@navivwilkins3266 right, that was over 50 years ago....anyway I now live in Northern California in a 1100 sq ft house-2 car garage, with a huge yard..it is worth 270k....in Southern California , 600k, in Ohio around 100k...it all depends on location, and income is different in certain parts of America...here I'm blessed with beautiful weather all year long. I have lived all over the US...retired now. ;) Peace--take your vaccine when available, had mine...no problem!!
Most People born and raised in NYC don’t care nothing about land and front and back yards because they are used to apartment buildings I lived in NYC for 22 years of my early life and those things were not on my mind until I moved to the South and oh how I miss Brownstones and project apartments
Wonder how much she paid for it then. 13 million now, WOW!!!! Just watched "Lady Sings The Blues" for the millionth time. And I get emotional each time. Such a tragedy. You'll remain an icon "Lady Day." 🌹🌹🌹🌹
Beautiful but I wouldn’t dare pay $13 million to live in an overcrowded, rat-invested crime filled city, I’m sorry just not buying the hype filled fantasy, a person could buy 25 properties in a beautiful neighborhood in a midsized town with that kind of money 💰
@@MattSezer yeah go tell somebody else that fanasty, everyone who lives in NYC knows that rats proliferate like 90 miles going south from the hood to the 5 th Avenues to the fast food restaurants to the fine dining celebrity spots, those fat rats are big as a year old cat and they don’t discriminate , rich or poor, poor or rich, that’s one city I could do without, nice to visit, but visit and stay, never in a million years minus that million off the $13 million their trying to sell that brownstone for no way 😆😂😫🤣
@@toytoy3900 Again, I'm not saying that rats aren't a huge problem, just that rats generally don't travel up much vertically, so as long as you're not on the ground floor or a basement, you're good. Also, you could make 20+ studio apartments renting at $1,500+ a month out of the square footage in that building, so that's really what you're paying for, although it's still way overpriced.
@@MattSezer yeah that makes a lot of sense especially for an investor, I’d definitely like to get a property like that under contract and assign my equitable interest to a cash buyer for even 1% 😀
@@chloestewart1902 Right. Smh. I was waiting to see if anybody was going to educate these people who do not live in New York about the way they term the apartments here. There is a basement then there is the ground level which is called the basement. The level above the ground is called the parlor floor and so on. She have a basement apartment which was the ground level or garden apartment
I knew it was a lie too. She was a very good jazz dinger. Hi singer. She was shooting heroin back then in those days she did not have that kind of money to own that house.lol
Insane! Absolutely stunning ! To think she had achieved this level of success this house is amazing can only imagine what it meant in the 1950s wow! But with all of her issues and drug abuse im sure the house was in bad condition .. we are seeing the 2021 modern version of the home.. im sure Ms Holliday version wasnt this nice ...
Hard to believe she had the riches to afford that... like Judy Garland it seems she was running for her life going from crisis to crisis - but it’s a beautiful dream though .
