This Long Island estate at 189 Terrace Lane in Upper Brookville was once owned by English novelist Ian Fleming’s dear friend Ivar Felix C. Bryce — a real-life British spy and, in Fleming’s James Bond books, 007’s best friend, Felix.
(“Just relax. I have a friend named Felix who can fix anything,” Bond says in the 1971 film “Diamonds Are Forever.”)
The 6,800-square-foot, five-bedroom brick mansion was built in 1917 as a carriage house for the 90-acre Mill River Farm estate. Fully restored, it’s now on the market for $2.99 million. The Bryces bought the estate in 1936 and renamed it Farlands Estate.
In reality, Bryce was married to A&P supermarket heiress Josephine Hartford.
They owned another property, Black Hole Hollow Farm, which borders Vermont, that was the setting for “For Your Eyes Only.”
Bryce’s brother-in-law, Huntington Hartford, also heir to the A&P fortune, reportedly inherited $90 million — and blew $80 million of it on women and commercial ventures.
His losses included Paradise Island in the Bahamas, currently known as the home of the famed Atlantis resort.
There’s a Bond connection there as well, as the films “Thunderball” and “Casino Royale” were partially shot on the island, as was the Beatles’ film, “Help!”
The listing brokers are Corcoran’s Carol Graham, Tim Stanard and John Wescott.