Where Did Angelina Jolie Go Apartment Hunting?

February 18, 2009 at 8:49 AM | by egw | 0 Comments

Angelina Jolie caused a camera-snapping ruckus on Monday in New York when she came to look at an apartment building. So where will the Pitt crew be settling down? Not on the tony Upper East Side!

Meet the Riviera -- a grande-dame apartment building on Riverside Drive near the Hudson River, in the Washington Heights neighborhood made famous by last year's Tony winner "In the Heights."

Perhaps a bizarre choice given that last time they were in town Maddox attended the Lyc�e Fran�ais on East 75th Street, some 8.3 miles away, but you can get way more for your money than on Madison or Park (although a 3-bedroom, 2-bath place will still set you back about $1.4 million -- and this brood needs two!) When it opened in 1911, the architects advertised every apartment would come with its own clothes dryer.

Funny thing is, Jolie may be just window-shopping: In January she, Pitt, and all the babies rented a Long Island mansion previously on the market for $60 million. The Tudor-style megapad was supposed to be the clan's home while Jolie films a CIA thriller currently titled "Salt," but maybe they got itchy for a more urban lifestyle.

And now, a moment of pedantry: Many blogs are claiming Angie was looking at "the Upper West Side," a mistake that will differentiate you from people who actually live here. That neighborhood runs along Central Park, whose northern border is about forty blocks south of where Jolie is considering planting her clan. Wash Heights is slightly more cutting-edge -- there's a cemetery down the street! -- but this swatch is trying to rebrand itself as Audubon Terrace or Audubon Park, for the well-known naturalist who owned large tracts of land up here in the 19th century. Just don't call it "upper West."

[Photo: Celebrity-Gossip.net]

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