Sex and the Brooklyn
It makes you wonder: Now that much of Manhattan has turned into a theme park version of “Sex and the City,” would Carrie Bradshaw and the gang still live on the island? Probably not, since Manhattan is as played out as a pair of last season’s Manolos. “It’s expensive, and it’s not what it used…
It makes you wonder: Now that much of Manhattan has turned into a theme park version of “Sex and the City,” would Carrie Bradshaw and the gang still live on the island? Probably not, since Manhattan is as played out as a pair of last season’s Manolos. “It’s expensive, and it’s not what it used to be,” Sarah Jessica Parker tells the Daily News. “That’s why the outer boroughs are so desirable. The outer boroughs are pretty sexy. It’s just a matter of time before they have their own shows.” According to the article, “If ‘Sex’ were starting over today, Carrie would rock out Carroll Gardens. BFF Miranda started out in Park Slope, but later, she’s bound to settle down with Steve, Brady and a brand new car in spacious Red Hook,” while Samantha would roost in Long Island City and Charlotte would play house in Riverdale. The article has quotes from Brooklyn residents who say stuff like, “Carroll Gardens or Williamsburg have a little bit of the hip edge that Carrie has, so she’d be able to get away with her funky outfits and no one would think twice about it.” Hip, edgy, less expensive than Manhattan: You heard it here first, folks. Also, the apocalypse is nigh.
Trendsetters Set Their Sights on Hip Alterna-Nabes [NY Daily News]
Photo by spinachdip.
http://cobblehillblog.com/2008/03/05/real-housewives-of-new-york-premiere-open-thread
Old money doesn’t do reality TV.
That axiom – nay, ironclad fact – underlies both the fallacy and the delicious schadenfreude that is the heart of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City (8 p.m. Tuesdays), a knockoff only in the sense that the participants are thin and, ostensibly, female. None will ever be confused with a Vanderbilt or an Astor. If any of them owns a copy of Emily Post, it’s only for smacking the help upside the head. Their arriviste natures, laden with money but only a smattering of the disregard the truly entitled show for it, make for repellent and fascinating watching. The most fun: Watching several of the women desperately trying to climb the social ladder, not realizing that if you have to climb, you will never reach the top. The suspects:
Alex McCord
This Kansas transplant is trying so hard you can smell the flop sweat through the TV screen. She and her Australian husband, Simon – a man not unaware that everyone, including the audience, thinks he’s gay – are busily trying to get their two children, Johann and Francois, into private school. Also, Johann and Francois have a nanny to teach them French, although neither parent speaks French to them. Because in the 2008 United States, nothing is so important as French.
* The evidence that they are far from upper crust: They live in Brooklyn. They drop nearly $100,000 on a single shopping trip in St. Barth’s (old money wears old clothes). They’re down to their 16th choice of private schools. Also: They’re from Kansas and Australia.
* Telling quote: (Simon, examining a new purchase) “It’s a Hungarian designer. Zac de’ . . . oh, that’s the cleaning instructions.”
Charlotte would so live in Brooklyn Heights.
Regarding Carroll Gardens becoming more hip and less Italian: Hello, Prada!
1:56 – if you get that impression from a badly photoshopped image put out by the producers I understand why you make that comment but you’d be wrong if you basing your statement on seeing her in person or even on TV.
Listen I can’t nor want to get in to too much discussion; I refuse to post on other boards and would like to keep Brownstoner my show free zone. For those of you who live near us, feel free to stop us on the street and talk.
Please do not post as guest anymore – I’d like to be able to instantly ignore your posts
You have to be an a$$hole for some period of time – in order to edit it so that it looks like your an a$$hole all the time.
And I wont judge you on your TV show – only saw one episode – I have determined you and your wife are a$$holes based on your “family website”
the article says carrie has a “hip edge.”
Your Wife has a man’s jaw
Put it this way I just laugh at those of you who take it all way too seriously and think you know us or can judge us based on a few minutes (out of several thousand) of highly edited footage. It’s entertainment; no more no less and should be taken as such.
If you see me (or my wife) on the street or in Jake Walk and we’ve been there together too) we’re most approachable and would be happy to explain more in person.