The road to recovery may have hit a pothole on the Upper East Side.
It turns out Sonja Morgan isn’t the only one shocked to learn her former townhouse is now sober living facility in the tony Manhattan neighborhood.
The Bravo star’s former Upper East Side neighbors say they’re shocked, and that the luxe Release Recovery is causing quite the stir in the neighborhood.
“There are so many different people going in and out, at first we didn’t know what was going on. Several neighbors have been talking about it, even the doormen,” one local told Page Six.
One neighbor told Page Six: “When you walk by the [window to the] foyer, there is a shoe rack with tons of shoes, now it all makes sense.” The insider added it’s “a disappointment” for people who have to walk their dogs by it daily.
One local, who recently put their townhouse on the market, fears the sober house may affect the price, according to sources.
Additionally, “it has become an issue in the neighborhood. The house is like Grand Central! Sonja should move back,” they said.
Morgan told Page Six that a rehab had approached her about renting her place — which she shared with her J.P. Morgan scion husband, John Adams Morgan, before their 2006 split — and converting it into a treatment center. But she said she turned it down because “I couldn’t do that to my neighbors.”
“The residents association wouldn’t have been too happy about it,” she told us.
The notorious reality star boozer listed the 63rd Street property for $11 million in 2019. She eventually settled for $4.5 million in 2024, from a buyer she says told her he was planning to live there with his wife.
The facility did not comment when we reached out.
Page Six previously reported that the former “Real Housewives of New York City” star listed her five-story home in 2019 for $11 million.
But it was only after remodeling and multiple reductions that is sold for $4.5 million in 2024.
A website highlights its elegant accommodations, some of which may look familiar to viewers of the Bravo smash hit, in which Morgan starred from 2010 until 2021 when the entire original cast was replaced.
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