PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — It’s official: writer Ta-Nehisi Coates will no longer call Prospect-Lefferts Gardens home.
The famous “Between the World and Me” author and journalist has sold the townhouse he bought last spring on Lincoln Road, property records show.
Coates purchased 207 Lincoln Rd. with his wife for $2.1 million in April, but later decided he and his family could not live in the three-story townhouse following widespread media reports of the sale.
In an essay published in The Atlantic about his decision, Coates said he and his wife could “never forgive ourselves” if anything happened to either of them or their son.
“You can’t really be a black writer in this country, take certain positions and not think about your personal safety. That’s just the history,” he wrote.
The buyers of 207 Lincoln Rd. purchased the property for the same price Coates paid for it, $2.1 million, public property records show.
Coates conducted the sale through a company he created to purchase the house, “Ellen and William Craft Excursions LLC,” named for a 19th-century couple who famously escaped slavery in Georgia and recounted their harrowing journey in the 1860 book, “Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.”