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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio recently purchased a unit at the David Rockwell-designed Riverhouse building in Battery Park City. The building is designed to be ecologically friendly while still luxurious. Details about the film star's specific residence weren't disclosed, but the Riverhouse has 264 units, including three bedroom duplexes that are still available.
DiCaprio is well known for his eco-consciousness and speaks out on pro-environmental issues frequently. Riverhouse has its own water treatment and air filtration systems, along with solar panels, and low-emission paint, so people can live extravagantly with a clean conscience. The building will also house a branch of the New York Public Library, a City Bakery, a dog spa, a 50 foot lap pool, an eco-lounge for the kids, and all sorts of other amenities, like a hybrid vehicle limousine service.
Photo of DiCaprio by AP/Tungstar
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see you at the green library.
Hilarious how the ultra-rich are given kudos for spending obscene amounts of money what amounts to a fairly small gesture.
It's not even a gesture.
And yet, sadly, it's a waste of money. Precisely because it's occupied only by the well-off, Battery Park City is sterile and boring. Every inch of ground is under strict control. Meanwhile, the accompanying gentrification of lower Manhattan is scraping the nearby streets clean of every form of authentic life, unless you like bars packed with aging frat boys. Enjoy what's left, if anything, before it turns into another Soho.
Don't forget how much gasoline they wasted to build the thing in the first place.
Yeah, All this douche does is fly 100 times a year and his carbon footprint is enormous. This is probably his fifth apartment too. This is the equivalent of a fat fuck gorging himself at Mcdonald's and then ordering a diet coke to make himself feel better.
DiCaprio buys a green house and then will drive his gas drinking SUV.
yes but why the crustache?
Because he can't muster the testosterone to grow a real mustache. If he just stopped with all the greasy kid stuff on his hair, half our oil problem would be solved. I have no idea why anyone thinks this guy is sexy, or even a capable actor. He looks like he's been on a week long binge, needs to be scrubbed with lye soap, and any role he's done, could've been handled a lot better by any freshman member of the drama club in my old junior high.
He is looking rather old, now that you mention it. Older than his 34 years. I guess he's going straight from skinny youngster to pudgy middle age.
You all sound pretty green yourself -- with envy, that is! BPC is the only waterfront neighborhood in the city that doesn't have a highway in front of it. I am looking out now on the river. It is SO QUIET. I can't hear the west side highway blocks behind me.
except when the floods come, look out!
Forget floods. When the next decent earthquake hits (don't laugh, the experts say earthquakes aren't as rare and improbable in NYC as you think), the WTC construction landfill under BPC will undergo liquefaction and all those fancy buildings will just slide right into the Hudson.
Let's celebrate Di Caprio's new crib! I'm swilling a Bellini and rubbing fresh gel into my receding hairline out of joy over his new home. We should all march arm in arm down to BPC to serenade the moving trucks and tie our good wishes to the nearest 'green' tree.