Exclusive | Rare compound on NYCs famed skybridge street returns for sale seeking an $8M discount

One of the city’s most-photographed streets could be headed for a rare opportunity — with one historic Tribeca compound already up for grabs and another famous adjacent property potentially joining it.A sprawling compound at 4 Staple St.is back on the market for $22 million, down a whopping $8 million from its original asking price last November, The Post has learned.And just up the cobblestone street sits an even more recognizable property: the historic 9 Jay St.

compound linked to Away co-founder Jen Rubio and Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, complete with the neighborhood’s famous cast-iron skybridge.While 9 Jay St.is not currently listed, the couple’s recent split and recent sale of their $30 million Aspen mansion — as The Post reported last week — raise the possibility that their Tribeca property could eventually follow.Should that happen while 4 Staple St.

remains available, a deep-pocketed buyer could have the rare chance to assemble neighboring pieces of one of Manhattan’s most architecturally distinctive corners.For now, the opportunity centers on 4 Staple St., the longtime home of filmmaker Neil Burger and architect Diana Kellogg, who have spent more than two decades transforming the historic property into an unconventional downtown compound.The couple purchased the townhouse for $1.7 million in 2002 and acquired an additional commercial space across the street for approximately $840,000 in 2008.Burger, known for directing “Limitless,” “Divergent” and “The Illusionist,” and Kellogg, whose architectural projects include a celebrated girls’ school in India’s Thar Desert, used the properties as both a family residence and creative workspaces.When the compound first hit the market for $30 million in November 2025, the couple told the Wall Street Journal that their work increasingly took them away from New York, while they also expected to spend more time at their Rhode Island residence.The asking price was slashed nearly 2...