Looking at Socialite Olivia Palermo's "Sweet Spot"

Page Six Magazine yesterday took a close-up look at 22-year-old socialite Olivia Palermo's new one-bedroom Tribeca apartment in a piece titled "Living: Socialite Olivia Palermo's Sweet Spot."

The lead:

“I’m so excited to be living in my own home,” says socialite Olivia Palermo, surrounded by clothes racks, shoes and handbags in her colorful, 63-square-foot walk-in closet accented with a zebra-print rug. Olivia is photographing outfits she has selected for a short trip to Los Angeles so she’ll know exactly what she wants to wear while she’s there. “This is the space I love the most. You can see it the second you walk in,” she says. “It represents me.”

Inspired by pictures of Mariah Carey’s spacious NYC home . . ..

This is the point that I stopped reading the article. If you'd like to continue....

[Photo: Karin Kohlberg, Page Six Magazine New York Post]

“The hotel guests also used to be culturally hip people. Now we get Mom and Dad from Cedar Rapids. It’s like living at Motel 6.”

Page Six Magazine on the Hotel Chelsea:

“It’s chaos here,” says one resident....many tenants haven’t paid rent (because there’s no one around to pay it to), and there’s been no super on duty for repairs. Tenants also say they are worried that, at some point, their rents will double. While the building is rent stabilized, the apartments aren’t registered with the city, and a lot of the leases aren’t on the books.

For further reading:

Hotel Chelsea Blog

[Photo: Katie Orlinsky, Page Six Magazine, New York Post]

Ninth Street Espresso coming to 10th Street

This summer, at the site of the former Tompkins Square Bakery next to Life. [Update: There seems to be some confusion... thanks to the commenter for the note. The bakery's address was 341 E. 10th St., now home to the real-estate office... The Ninth Street Espresso's Web site said they are moving into 341 E. 1oth St. I'll get this right eventually. And none of this will be on the midterm. Regardless, there will be a new Ninth Street Espresso location on 10th Street...]

A storefront and sign that I like

At the Stapleton Shoe Company, on Trinity Place at Rector, just south of the American Stock Exchange.

Stopped by Houston and Avenue D to pay my final respects

Meanwhile, on Avenue D between Third Street and Fourth Street:

Directed toward the Mamma Mia! crowd, obviously

At thew Loews Village 7, 11th Street and Third Avenue.

Save the date: August 2

Morningwood this afternoon

Morningwood is playing a free show today at 1:30 at Stanton and Orchard. (Bring a fan.)
And I still like their video for "Nth Degree," which you can see here.

Is this the leakiest (drippiest?) AC in the EV?

Oh, probably not. But don't be surprised if a car wash opens for business here outside the Christodora.

Why EV Grieve could never be in advertising

Because my tagline for these ads would be, "Hey, it's your colon."

A short history of subtle butt-in-the-air billboards downtown

The owl and the pig

Near 12th Street and Second Avenue.

Dumpster of the day

On 10th Street and Second Avenue, near the soon-to-be-departed Mill Quality Cleaners.

Random piece of movie dialogue about New York City of the day

"I'm tellin' ya, the crime rate in New York will kill ya. There's so many problems, you never feel like you're accomplishing anything. Violence, rip-offs, muggings. The kids can't leave the house. You gotta walk 'em to school. But in Amity, one man can make a difference. In 25 years, there's never been a shooting or a murder in this town." -- Amity Police Chief Martin Brody, Jaws (1975)