Classically trained jazz musician: Twenty-four years old, from a \u201cgood home\u201d in New Hampshire; has a roommate who is currently on tour with Natalie Merchant, and has lived in New York for two exciting years, since graduating from Berklee.<\/p>\n
Location: Greenpoint<\/p>\n
Model: Amana<\/p>\n
Contents:
\u2022 Trader Joe\u2019s saag paneer
\u2022 Trader Joe\u2019s chicken tikka masala
\u2022 A forgotten half-onion, Saran-wrapped and aluminum-foiled the way that Grandma suggested
\u2022 Cranberry juice for girlfriend Chloe\u2019s U.T.I.
\u2022 Small wicker basket of nuts and dried fruits that Mom sent to celebrate him meeting Jon Batiste, along with a note: \u201cWhen are you going to send the photo, sweetheart??\u201d<\/p>\n
Exterior-door d\u00e9cor: Eiffel Tower magnet from Paris, Smalls Jazz Club\u2019s April schedule.<\/p>\n
Finance bro: Thirty-two years old, single, no kids\u2014\u201cbut will def have kids at some point, no rush, I\u2019m not a woman, bro.\u201d<\/p>\n
Location: West Village<\/p>\n
Model: LG two-door<\/p>\n
Contents:
\u2022 A bottle of Brunello (until wine fridge from Sharper Image arrives)
\u2022 Parmesan crisps
\u2022 An XL bottle of sake that the killer omakase-sushi dude on Hudson recommended
\u2022 Two large triangles of Brie, both unwrapped
\u2022 Jar of sun-dried tomatoes
\u2022 Takeout box from Via Carota (cacio e pepe)
\u2022 Family pack of Oreos<\/p>\n
Exterior-door d\u00e9cor: Photo-booth print from Soho House\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve party, Equinox MetCon3-class schedule.<\/p>\n
C.E.O. of the Williams Capital family office and of his own actual (perfect) family: Fifty-one years old, full head of hair, strikingly handsome, with three young kids (Tyler, Skyler, and Zoe) and wife (Donna, attorney).<\/p>\n
Location: Tribeca<\/p>\n
Model: Sub-Zero<\/p>\n
Contents:
\u2022 A box of Amaretti di Saronno
\u2022 A large ball of mozzarella di bufala from Eataly
\u2022 A filet mignon from a butcher who used to hang with Anthony Bourdain, but who wasn\u2019t there for him toward the end
\u2022 Farm-raised chicken drumsticks for the kids
\u2022 Labneh delivered from that Middle Eastern store in Carroll Gardens that his C.F.O. Sebastian told him about
\u2022 Fresh hummus from Miznon in Chelsea Market
\u2022 Hand-crushed peanut butter and hand-smushed strawberry jelly the kids made in Sagaponack over the summer, which they refuse to throw out (Donna is an enabler)<\/p>\n
Exterior-door d\u00e9cor: Spotless\u2014void of any items, fingerprints, or signs of humanity (all inter-spousal messages or the occasionally decent kids\u2019 art works are kept on a dedicated note board on the other side of the kitchen).<\/p>\n
Sad dad: Fifty-five years old, recently divorced, two teen-age kids who live with their mom at the house in Scarsdale.<\/p>\n
Location: Yonkers, thanks to that shitty divorce lawyer<\/p>\n
Model: Refurbished KitchenAid (It\u2019s a rental, what can you do?)<\/p>\n
Contents:
\u2022 Olives
\u2022 A half-eaten Annie\u2019s mac and cheese
\u2022 A half-eaten Kraft mac and cheese
\u2022 A bottle of Maker\u2019s Mark
\u2022 Pepperidge Farm raisin bread (the kind his ex-wife used to buy before she decided to blow up the family unit)
\u2022 Non-organic produce, overripe, sad<\/p>\n
Exterior-door d\u00e9cor: Post-its with the phone numbers for C.B.T.\/ketamine therapist and a \u201cbetter\u201d divorce attorney that Sean used, and he got the house and Christmas this year; photo from a vacation in the Bahamas with wife and the kids when they were babies, as a constant reminder of how utterly devastating life is now.<\/p>\n
Single Dude: Forties, unemployed and still blames the pandemic for the bad job market; has two roommates to help cover the rent.<\/p>\n
Location: Sixth-floor walkup on Eldridge<\/p>\n
Model: Mini-fridge with no discernible brand, situated in bedroom corner near sink that functions as kitchen and bathroom sink, topped with a dish towel that doubles as bathroom towel (hands and face)<\/p>\n
Contents:
\u2022 Hard to tell because the bulb doesn\u2019t work
\u2022 Stuffed grape leaves that Martha, the downstairs neighbor, brought over a few months ago as a thanks for watering her plants for two days while she was visiting her daughter in Philadelphia, who never comes to visit her
\u2022 Mini milk carton, precariously shoved into side door at an angle
\u2022 A pint of tasteless blueberries that doubles as a petri dish
\u2022 String cheese (generic)
\u2022 Remnants of an egg-and-cheese bagel
\u2022 A banana (somehow both not ripe and brown)<\/p>\n
Exterior-door d\u00e9cor: Like life, a work in progress.<\/p>\n
Happy dad: In his late forties, C.B.T.\/D.B.T. therapist and Reiki practitioner, married to Naama (also a C.B.T.\/D.B.T. therapist), with whom he shares a practice, in this really cute sunlit space which doubles as a ceramics studio\/food co-op that\u2019s adjacent to a smoke shop that is kind of an eyesore but the owner is a super sweet guy.<\/p>\n
Location: Prospect Heights<\/p>\n
Model: Smeg<\/p>\n
Contents:
\u2022 Labneh from Said\u2019s in Carroll Gardens\u2014Said is also a super sweet guy!
\u2022 Four bottles of our Syrah for the big dinner party next weekend\u2014you should totally come, and of course the kids are invited! Always!
\u2022 A bottle of rosuvastatin from a mom-and-pop pharmacy on Fulton\u2014yeah, high cholesterol is apparently genetic, but it\u2019s all about preventive medicine, not overmedicating
\u2022 Misshapen produce that nobody else wants but that tastes just as good
\u2022 Four bushels of leeks\u2014Naama is on a leek kick this month and won\u2019t stop scrolling the Times recipe app at all hours of the night, LOL!<\/p>\n
Exterior-door d\u00e9cor: Food-co-op shift schedule; a \u201cBahai is coming to Brooklyn!\u201d brochure (so intriguing, right?); group photo of this amazing super sweet group of D.B.T. practitioners from all over the world at the third annual D.B.T. conference in Porto.\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Classically trained jazz musician: Twenty-four years old, from a \u201cgood home\u201d in New Hampshire; has a roommate who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5610,8563,8562,9,11,10,8561,8564,990],"class_list":["post-10477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-_sensitivecontent","tag-disable-inline-signup-unit","tag-humor","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-shouts-murmurs","tag-textaboveleftsmallwithrule","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}