Airbnb makes you an offer you can’t refuse.
The Staten Island home at 110 Longfellow Ave., which served as the stately English Tudor home of Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) in the still-iconic 1972 film ‘The Godfather’, is now ready for rent on Airbnb for the whole month of August.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the famous mafia film, up to five guests will have private access to the 6,248 square foot spread.
Facilities include a large salt water swimming pool, basement pub, games room and gym.
Booking opens at 1 p.m. ET this Wednesday for a 30-night stay taking place August 1-31 at $50 per night.
This adds up to $1,500 for the month.
Consisting of five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, Airbnb describes the house as “best suited for two adults and three children”.
Located in the affluent neighborhood of Todt Hill, only the exterior of the house was used in the film. Most memorable was the opening scene, which showed the garden party wedding reception of Vito’s daughter, Connie Corleone (played by Talia Shire). It was supposed to be Corleone’s house on Long Island in the movie.
Built in 1930, it last sold in 2016 for $2.4 million.
The house belonged to Edward and Mary Norton for more than half a century until they sold it in 2012 for $1.7 million. From 2012 to 2016, the house underwent a complete renovation.
Next door at 120 Longfellow is a residence that served as the home of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino).
Originally from Brooklyn, Elaine and Peter Albert, the latter working as a urologist, had lived in this house since 1977, when they bought it for $195,000. After 43 years at the residence where they raised their three children — in May 2020 — the couple said goodbye to their beloved abode and sold the estate for $1.22 million to Philip Pilato.
Fans of the movie will remember that just steps from this front door, petty crook Carlo Rizzi was punched by a member of the Corleone crime family. (The film crew used a total of three houses in that immediate area for the film, building an artificial gate there to create the impression of a compound, as well as neighborhood children as extras.)
Gianni Russo, who played Rizzi in the Oscar-winning film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, told the Post in 2019 that he remembered being “dead” outside the Alberts’ house. His character is strangled in the front seat of a car, as he fights to the end.
“Francis wanted me to go through the windshield of the car,” Russo told the Post.
Russo, whose first film was “The Godfather”, recalled that the Albert house was used as a dressing room and meeting place for the actors.
“The actors were challenging each other to see who could do the best improv,” Russo said. “In that living room, I saw Al Pacino do a one-legged golfer improvisation. He bent down to put the ball on the tee and he fell.
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