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NYC Star Map Feeds Your Healthy Celebrity Worship
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Christopher Robbins
Published Feb 22, 2012
Modified Feb 22, 2012
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Bedbug history and square-footage is important, but the most crucial aspect of choosing an apartment is its proximity to celebrities. The closer the better, as you never know how much a few fingernail clippings or an old band-aid will fetch at auction. Thankfully, the apartment rental search Rentenna has compiled a star map of Manhattan's neighborhoods. Ooh! How long will it be until we start seeing John Mayer and Dakota Fanning canoodling in DeSalvio Playground?*
While surely this isn't the most exhaustive list (where's Usher?) there is a definite concentration of celebrities downtown and near Central Park, while Midtown is dead, except for um, "celebrity" American Idol winner Katharine McPhee. Also: Lady Gaga no longer resides in the Lower East Side, and David Schwimmer's East Village home doesn't even exist yet. Brooklyn gets a tiny addendum but no DUMBO love?
Anyone wishing to deliver a Ghostbusters III script to Bill Murray has to hike all the way to East 96th Street so it'd better be good.
*This will precipitate the End of Days
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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