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The Morningside Heights apartment that former President Barack Obama once called home is now up for grabs. The erstwhile commander-in-chief rented the three-bedroom, two-bathroom unit at 622 West 114th Street while attending Columbia University, and now it’s on the market for $1.45 million.

The co-op has been renovated in the many years since the 44th president, who studied political science at Columbia from 1981 to 1983, resided in the apartment.

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The former commander-in-chief moved into the rental apartment during his time at Columbia University. Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images

It’s not clear precisely when Obama rented the apartment, but it was at some point during his time at the Ivy League university. The 39-unit building was all rentals when Obama lived there, but has since been converted to a co-op, per the listing shared by Brown Harris Stevens brokers Scott Harris and Dean “Riley” Moody Jr.

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Barack Obama’s Former Manhattan Apartment Is for Sale

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Before he was the president of the United States, before meeting Michelle Obama, and before Harvard Law School, Barack Obama was an undergrad with roommates at Columbia University. And now, according to People magazine, the three-bedroom, two-bathroom Manhattan apartment where he lived while studying political science there in the ’80s is on the market for $1.45 million. The Morningside Heights pad is a short five-minute walk from campus, situated on a quiet residential block. The unit is one of 39 in a co-op apartment that used to rent out to university students; it’s unclear when the building was converted into condos, and what amenities were and were not offered to students at the time. Presently, the unit includes a laundry machine and dryer (a priceless bonus for any college student), and the building has a live-in superintendent and elevator.

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Barack Obama’s Former Columbia Apartment For Sale

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MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, NY — Did anybody say presidential suite?

a living room filled with furniture and a large window: An image of the lobby of the NYC building that President Barack Obama used to live in during the eighties.

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An image of the lobby of the NYC building that President Barack Obama used to live in during the eighties.

President Barack Obama’s old rent-controlled apartment he lived in during his time studying political science at Columbia University is on the market for just under $1.5 million.

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It has now been nearly four decades since Obama called the co-op, three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at 622 West 114th Street home.

The apartment is on sale for $1,450,000 from Scott Harris of Brown Harris Stevens.

People magazine was the first publication to notice that Obama’s former dwelling was on sale.

The listing describes the apartment as “perfectly positioned on a quiet side street between Broadway and Riverside Drive, moments from Riverside Park and Columbia University. Whether taking in Broadway restaurants or commuting via the nearby subway, everything is quickly within

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Barack Obama’s old rent controlled UWS apartment on sale for $1.45m

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Barack Obama’s old apartment in the Upper West Side of New York City is for sale, though it won’t be cheap for the next owner.

The apartment, now part of a co-op at 622 West 114th Street, is for sale at $1.45million. It is located just blocks away from Columbia University, and Obama lived there after graduating from the Ivy League school.

The listing is held by Brown Harris Stevens.

Obama would likely find the apartment unrecognizable, as it has been newly renovated and is listed as being in ‘mint-condition.’

One of Barack Obama’s old apartments from his New York City days is on the market

The apartment at 622 West 114th Street is currently on sale for $1.45million

The apartment is being listed and virtually staged by Brown Harris Stevens in the city

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Barack Obama’s Memoir, “A Promised Land,” Sets Penguin Random House Record

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Barack Obama’s new book, “A Promised Land,” set records during its first week of release.

Former President of the United States Barack Obama’s new book, A Promised Land, has recorded the most first-day sales for a work published by Penguin Random House, the publishing company announced this week.

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A Promised Land sold 887,000 units across the U.S. and Canada on its first day of release and 1,710,443 units in its first week on shelves. The memoir went on-sale November 17.

“There’s no feeling like finishing a book, and I’m proud of this one,” the former President wrote on Instagram in September. “I’ve spent the last few years reflecting on my presidency, and in A Promised Land I’ve tried to provide an honest accounting of my presidential campaign and my time in office: the key events and people who shaped it, my take on what

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Barack Obama’s Memoir Breaks First Day Sales Record for Largest Publisher in the World

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Former President Barack Obama’s new memoir has broken first-day sales records for the largest publishing house in the world.

A Promised Land, sold under the Penguin Random House imprint Crown, moved more than 887,000 units in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday, the first day it was available for purchase, according to a Penguin Random House press release obtained by Newsweek.

“We are thrilled with the first day sales,” Crown publisher David Drake said in a statement. “They reflect the widespread excitement that readers have for President Obama’s highly anticipated and extraordinarily written book.”

The first-day sales figure outpaced the success of former first lady Michelle Obama, whose 2018 memoir Becoming sold 725,000 units on its first day before going on to sell more than 10 million copies despite never being released as a paperback. The former first couple reportedly signed a deal worth $65 million for publication

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Sorry, But I’m Not Buying Obama’s Portrait of Racist America

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I don’t doubt for a moment that we still have race issues to address in America. And I don’t believe that, to date, we have fully overcome the legacy of hundreds of years of slavery and segregation in our history. At the same time, I do not accept former President Obama’s claim that the 2016 election of Donald Trump was, in part, a reaction to having a Black man in the White House.

In a widely reported excerpt from his forthcoming book Promised Land, Obama claims that “millions of Americans” were “spooked by a Black man in the White House.”

To quote him more fully, he argued that Trump “promised an elixir for the racial anxiety” of “millions of Americans spooked by a black man in the White House.”

These same Americans, we are told, were prey to “the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges

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Barack Obama’s Former New York Apartment Is Listed for Sale for $1.45M

Barack Obama’s Former Manhattan Apartment Is for Sale

Barack Obama’s Former Columbia Apartment For Sale

Barack Obama’s old rent controlled UWS apartment on sale for $1.45m

Barack Obama’s Memoir, “A Promised Land,” Sets Penguin Random House Record

Barack Obama’s new book, “A Promised Land,” set records during its first week of release.

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Barack Obama’s Memoir Breaks First Day Sales Record for Largest Publisher in the World

Sorry, But I’m Not Buying Obama’s Portrait of Racist America