Darling, I Love You, but Give me Park Avenue!

Like many New Yorkers, I have a guilty pleasure. Every once and a while, I stroll up and down Park Avenue and fantasize about living in a luxury penthouse apartment.

Don't get me wrong. My current Chelsea apartment affords me plenty of luxury. But Park Avenue is the stuff of New York apartment dreams! When I think of having an address in the most exclusive zip code in the country (10021, which runs from East 42nd-97th streets) with millionaires and celebrities, Star Jones and Kim Cattrall as my neighbors, I get chills. An Upper East Side Apartment is something to desire, something to be envied!

And oh, the shopping! Nowhere else in the world will you find as many stores of such high caliber in such close proximity. Bloomindales and Saks, of course; but designer names as well, such as Gucci, Hermes, Chanel, Cartier, Christian Louboutin, Yves Saint Laurent and hundreds of others make me grip tightly to my purse!

But the Upper East Side offers more than just nannies taking their charges to the park, black tie charity dinners and trust fund babies; it's also blocks away from some of the best museums and universities in the world. It would take any New Yorker more than a lifetime to view each piece of artwork at the MoMA, The Whitney, The Met and the Guggenheim; but a girl with an Upper East Side apartment could certainly try!

The more I dream about it, the more I can't settle for anything less than the most enviable real estate in New York. I can picture myself rising at noon, greeting the doorman coolly as I leave the building for my afternoon stroll in the park, returning in time for a glass of wine on the balcony at sunset before getting ready for some high-society function...Park Avenue, you're the life for me! Even Madison Avenue just won't do. Darling, I love you, but give me Park Avenue!