Tracy Morgan bought his house in Alpine, New Jersey, in October 2015 for $13.9 million. The purchase came sixteen months after a highway crash that nearly killed him and a few weeks after his wedding. The house is a two-acre colonial estate with a bowling alley, a racquetball court, and an elevator, and it has since become better known for something no listing mentioned: the sharks.
Morgan has filled the property with aquariums, including a shark tank built by a television crew, and in 2026 his co-star Daniel Radcliffe described the place on air as something out of a Bond film.
This guide covers where the house is, what it contains, how the purchase fits his life after the crash, and whether he still owns it.
Tracy Morgan’s Alpine house at a glance
| Location | Alpine, Bergen County, New Jersey |
|---|---|
| Bought | October 2015 for $13.9 million, the full asking price |
| Built | 1998 |
| Size | About 21,000 sq ft in 2015 sale coverage; public records list about 11,040 sq ft of living space |
| Bedrooms and bathrooms | Seven bedrooms, ten bathrooms |
| Land | Two acres |
| Status | No sale recorded since 2015 |
Who is Tracy Morgan?
Tracy Morgan is an American comedian and actor from Brooklyn, known for seven seasons on Saturday Night Live, for playing Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock and later for TBS’s The Last O.G. In 2026, he returned to network television in NBC’s The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, opposite Daniel Radcliffe.
On 7 June 2014, a Walmart tractor-trailer struck the limo-bus he was travelling in from behind on the New Jersey Turnpike near Cranbury. His friend and fellow comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair was killed. Morgan suffered a traumatic brain injury, a broken leg, broken ribs, and a broken nose, and spent months in recovery. He settled his lawsuit against Walmart in 2015 for an undisclosed sum.
The house came at the end of that year. He married Megan Wollover, the mother of his daughter Maven, in August 2015 and closed on Alpine that October, so it is fair to read the purchase as a fresh start. The marriage did not last: the couple announced in July 2020 that they were divorcing. He also has three adult sons from his first marriage.
Why Alpine
Alpine is a small borough on the Palisades above the Hudson, about 20 miles from Midtown Manhattan, and it regularly ranks among the most expensive ZIP codes in the United States. Its appeal to performers is simple: large lots, very little through traffic, and a drive into the New York studios. Neighbouring Englewood has the same pull; Eddie Murphy owned his Bubble Hill estate there for decades before selling it in 2012.
For Morgan, the move was short. He grew up in public housing in Bedford-Stuyvesant, later lived in Riverdale in the Bronx, and was already living in Bergen County before he bought in Alpine.
What the house has
Coverage of the 2015 sale, drawn from the listing, described a colonial-style house of about 21,000 square feet with seven bedrooms and ten bathrooms. Public records give a much smaller figure, about 11,040 square feet, which likely counts only the main finished living area. Some later articles quote 22,000 square feet or swap the bedroom and bathroom counts; the 2015 figures are the ones closest to a primary source.
The recreation spaces are what set it apart: a two-lane bowling alley, a racquetball court, a screening room and a gym, with an elevator, front and rear staircases and a six-car garage. More formal rooms, including a library, a drawing room and a bar, give it a traditional layout alongside the leisure wing, and outside there is a pool.
The garage suits a keen buyer of expensive cars. In June 2019, Morgan crashed a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport in Manhattan within about half an hour of buying it. No one was hurt, and the minor collision made the news mainly because of the car’s price, about $2 million.
The house was built in 1998 and changed hands twice before Morgan bought it. It was listed in January 2015 at $13.9 million, and he paid exactly that, which at that price level is less common than it sounds.
The shark tanks
Morgan’s enthusiasm for aquariums predates Alpine. In 2012, Animal Planet’s Tanked built him a Jaws-themed shark tank in the basement of his previous New Jersey home. The same team came back in 2018 and converted his pool house into a single aquarium of around 14,000 gallons for his sharks. Some later coverage puts the backyard tank at 20,000 gallons; the figure given on the programme is the smaller one. As for what it cost, Morgan discussed having spent more than a million dollars on his in-home shark tank on The Dan Patrick Show in 2023; the lower totals that circulate on fan sites have no source.
The tanks are what visitors remember. Appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show in March 2026, Radcliffe listed eleven large fish tanks, a shark tank holding five sharks, a pool table with piranhas swimming beneath it, and an animatronic lion in a hallway, and said the whole effect was of a Bond villain’s home. It was played for laughs, but it matches everything else on record.
Does Tracy Morgan still live there?
On the evidence available, yes. Public records show no sale of the house since October 2015; it has not been listed, and no sale followed the 2020 divorce. Radcliffe’s 2026 account describes it as the house Morgan lives in now.
It is assessed for property tax at about $10.2 million, with an annual bill of roughly $85,000. The values attached to it online, from $14 million to more than $16 million, do not come from an appraisal or a sale. Redfin’s automated estimate is lower, at about $11.2 million. Any of these is a guess until the house is actually sold.
Sources
- Today, on the 2015 purchase at $13.9 million, the house’s size, layout and features, and the listing agents.
- Redfin public-record sale and tax history for the property: the January 2015 listing, the October 2015 sale, the 1998 build year, and the current assessment.
- Hello! On Daniel Radcliffe’s March 2026 description of the house on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
- Animal Planet on the Tanked pool-house conversion, and HuffPost on the earlier basement shark tank.
- The Dan Patrick Show on the cost of his Shark Tank.
- CNN on the June 2019 Bugatti crash.
- The Hollywood Reporter on the July 2020 announcement of his divorce from Megan Wollover.
- Wikipedia for his career, the June 2014 crash, and the Walmart settlement.
