Later personal

You guessed it. It's income inequality night on HGTV - "Selling LA" and "Selling New York." Rub our faces in it. (The top .1% must be glued to their TVs.) The apartment here was going for, I think, $27 million, and had 7-8 bedrooms and 9 1/2 bathrooms. Who really needs that much space to live in? Who stays in all those bedrooms? Who uses all those bathrooms? (The Wall Street banker's 2.5 kids must have some elaborate sleep-overs.) A plus - it was right across the street from the Metropolitan Museum (and Central Park, of course).

The place on top of the hill in Malibu was spectacular, going for $14 million. Enormous piece of property, with a vineyard even. (A famous soccer player from Verona, Italy, was interested in it.) (Cute guy.)

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Looking forward to my long weekend. I'd arranged to take PTO on Monday and Tuesday, and then we have Friday off as a firm holiday (when I'll be going to the dentist to get a chipped tooth fixed).

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The Upper East Side may be snootier but the buildings on the Upper West Side are cooler (giving the Upper East Siders a cooler view across the park, however).

The San Remo (and, at far left, The Dakota, where John Lennon lived - and died)

The Eldorado