Exclusive | Courtney Loves former Soho loft her first NYC home is on the market for $9.49M

This Soho apartment rocks — so much so that grunge music queen Courtney Love once owned it.Now, the Hole frontwoman’s former lair has listed for $9.49 million, The Post has learned.Located at 30 Crosby St., the property offers a rare glimpse into the new grandmother’s New York chapter, which began in 2001 when she traded Beverly Hills for Manhattan.Love, the 60-year-old widow of Nirvana icon Kurt Cobain, acquired the unfinished loft in 2001 for $2.64 million, becoming its first owner following a condo conversion from a manufacturing building. The move came seven years following Cobain’s 1994 suicide, and marked a significant shift from her West Coast roots. Love, a California native, had previously lived in a four-bedroom Beverly Hills estate, purchased in 1997 from comedian Ellen DeGeneres for $3 million.That property, which she renovated to include a gym, sat on 2 acres and featured a cement pond.

Love listed it for just under $4 million before heading east.This Soho loft, spanning 4,123 square feet, boasts three bedrooms and three bathrooms. Love held the property until 2006, when financial pressures forced a sale. Public records indicate she parted ways with it for $5 million, unable to keep pace with the mortgage. Love’s departure from New York in 2006 marked her return to the West Coast, but in later years she still had a bit of New York presence.A 2011 Vanity Fair profile by Nancy Jo Sales detailed Love residing in a West Village townhouse at 27 Bank St.

for $27,000 per month — one that she filled with cupcakes, even though she declared she had only $894 in the bank — where she had allegedly done $100,000 in interior damages, according to court documents.The unit’s current owner is Stefan Sonnenfeld, a titan in the film industry known for revolutionizing digital color grading.Sonnenfeld, who paid $7.07 million for the loft in 2012, has been dubbed the “da Vinci of the movies” for his work on blockbusters like “Pirates of the Cari...