Queen Latifah is kissing the Jersey City headquarters of her production company goodbye, selling the historic firehouse for $2.25 million.

The restored firehouse at 155 Morgan St., which housed Latifah's Flavor Unit Entertaiment since 1996, was sold for $2,250,000 on Monday, said Janie Spataro and Luis Negron of Robert De Ruggiero Realtors in Union City, who handled the sale.

The building, which dates back to the late 1800s, is currently being rented by a software consultant and is now property of N.J. Dragon Property LLC, an international recycling company, Spataro said. Flavor Unit, on the other hand, is now based in Miami Beach.

Latifah is one of the Garden State's finest -- she was raised in East Orange and, Spataro says, lived in the Jersey City Heights on Webster Avenue.

The 4,000-square-foot building sold for about $162,000 more than Latifah's 7,000-square-foot Colts Neck home which she sold at a loss of $50,000 in March.

The firehouse has been deemed historically significant as the site of Engine Company No. 1 and one of the first firehouses in JC and cannot be modified without permission from the city's Historic Preservation Commission, Spataro said.

"The way she had the building, it was so beautifully decorated and she pretty much left it in its original state," said Spataro. "Unfortunately a lot of buildings like this, the wrecking ball hit them, but they can't do that in many Jersey City areas any longer."

Spataro and Negron have been licensed since 1993 and 2007, respectively, and have worked together to sell other significant properties in the areas like Kennedy Lofts at 87 Newkirk Street and 366 West Side Ave., an apartment building by the West Side Avenue Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Station.