
Oh, look who just snapped up the huge townhouse on the East Broadway. Once owned by tattoo artist Jonathan Shaw, the 19th-century mansion was just hacked to none other than Tatiana Von Furstenberg, daughter of fashion icon Diane Von Furstenberg. For $2.4 million.
Tatiana, who is married to a prince, is in her thirties, and has a six-year-old (info via wiki) is really sick of Gramercy. Gramercy is so full of thirty-something princesses pushing around strollers. She's really ready for something arty and sultry. She wants to live in a land where the spillover from Chinatown and Williamsburg have created a wonderful sea of Asians and Jews roaming free.
“Basically, I’m just really attracted to this neighborhood,” said Ms. von Furstenberg. “It’s not, like, in the hip part of the Lower East Side. There’s a lot of diversity, it just feels like the New York that I left.”
Which New York was that?
“I lived on Gramercy Park for most of my 20’s,” she said. “Everybody was thirty-something with a stroller.” And now? “Down there, they really honor immigrants and senior citizens, it’s really multi-cultured and multi-generational—but I really hate to use those words.”
Yeah, we bet the "immigrants" (does she mean the people who's families came here in like 1912?) hate words like "mulit-cultural" too. Mainly because it means more white people moving into $2 million homes in their neighborhoods.
Tattoo You, Tatiana! [Max Abelson, New York Observer]