Celebrity neighbor

September 3, 2008 – 9:59 am

By Petya Kirkova

It’s late in the evening but no too late. You live on the Upper East Side, and you decided to make crème brûlée. The recipe calls for 6 eggs, but you did make Eggs Benedict for your improvised brunch today, so unfortunately you have only 4 eggs left. Hmmm, would you alter the recipe, it’s your first crème brûlée and you have the urge to follow it to the dot, or you would just wait until tomorrow and buy the missing ingredient? Or you would knock on your neighbor’s door and borrow 2 eggs? After all it’s late but not the way- too-late-to-knock-on-peoples’-doors kind of late, so you go down one flight and knock on the door of L-2. Who do you think opens the door - Renee Zelleweger. It’s not a coincidence of names. It’s the same Renee Zellweger who you watched with your girlfriends in the Bridget Jones Diaries. I know what you think now. This story sounds too unreal. People living on Madison Avenue can most likely afford a chef, even if they cook themselves they don’t borrow eggs from their neighbors, and last but not least Renee Zellweger…

Ok, the crème brûlée recipe was a stretch, but if you do live on Madison Avenue and 82nd Street, you just acquired a new celebrity neighbor. According to the New York Observer, recently Renee Zellweger bought a $2,800,000 co-op unit on the Upper East Side. Not only she got her self an upscale "home sweet home", but apparently she has more than one in the same building. There is still some confusion whether she has two or three units, but the fact is that her Manhattan mail now is addressed to Madison Avenue or 82nd Street. Again a little confusion, but the property in question has two known addresses. Well, if you happen to live in the heart of New York City, you grasped the idea of more than one address very easily. Buildings have more than one entrance, hence the difference. Just don’t give up your idea of the well-desired zip code. You’ll get used to having more than one way out of your casa; let it not spoil your dream of moving into the City.