We're finally dedicated fans of HGTV's new reality show, Selling New York. The show's not amazing, but it provides the best fix of enviable apartments since Gossip Girl (curse the day the characters learned to have sex).
The first episode, The Big Event, doesn't offer much in the way of eye candy, but it does a fairly good job of capturing the silly chaos in which brokers get involved. We appreciated the contrived drama surrounding the unfinished pool, which was supposed to be the centerpiece of the Bowery development's 'pool party.' And we also liked watching brokers crowd around Japanese food like Fraternity brothers at dinner time - although we aren't sure why that required more than four days of planning.
The episode does a fine job of reaffirming the stereotypical Uptown and Downtown client: the Uptown client was an older lady fresh out the 'burbs, while the Downtown clients were young, loosely fashionable, and - unsurprisingly - in the real estate industry.
The Bowery property looked great once staged, but we can't pass up the opportunity to ridicule the steel beam that literally cut through the eat-in kitchen OR to let the producers know we get it: Bowery Hotel; John Varvatos; trendy neighborhood. Neither Park Ave apartment really struck a chord, although the Prewar one did look loads better once Michele Kleier moved that godforsaken chair! Go figure.
Until next week!
The Bowery property looked great once staged, but we can't pass up the opportunity to ridicule the steel beam that literally cut through the eat-in kitchen OR to let the producers know we get it: Bowery Hotel; John Varvatos; trendy neighborhood. Neither Park Ave apartment really struck a chord, although the Prewar one did look loads better once Michele Kleier moved that godforsaken chair! Go figure.
Until next week!
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