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After NJ pols and Englewood residents raised a firestorm over Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi staying at his Englewood residence, we now hear from the Post that Gadhafi has been kicked out of the swank Pierre Hotel as well. This time it was the guests who put up the fuss. One patron of the Fifth Avenue establishment, where rooms cost upwards of $1,400 a night said,"It's outrageous. How can they let this happen? I'll definitely be staying at another hotel next time." Gadhafi will be staying at the Libyan Mission to the U.N., in less sumptuous quarters.

There's a long feature in the Times' City section about the Pierre Hotel's triplex penthouse. It's been on the market for $70 million since 2004 at Brown Harris Stevens, and if you had $70 million, you'd get 360-degree views of Manhattan from midtown, 16 rooms (including a huge ballroom with 23 foot high ceiling and 20 foot doors), 5 fireplaces and a housekeeper and houseman. But you'd need to pay the whole thing in cash and get past the board, not to mention pay $464,000 in annual maintenance fees.

The Daily News reports that a 70 year-old Japanese tourist was lost for two days on the Upper East Side until another Japanese couple found her. Not only did Takako Maedo not remember that she was staying at the Pierre Hotel on Fifth Avenue, she had no money and couldn't speak English to get buy. Maedo's daughter said that they were separated at St. Patrick's, and had filed a police report. However, it was only when Maedo walked into Satoru and Tomoe Kuwajima Upper East Side building, surviving by drinking water "left on the street next to a pay phone" (*shudder*) that the mystery was solved; the Kuwajimas were the first Japanese-speaking people Maedo had come across (she didn't think the police could help her) and after giving her some green tea and bread, they called the Japanese Consulate, who probably has an APB for missing Japanese elders in NYC.

Panic Room, the movie, has been called a member of the "Manhattan luxury real estate thriller" genre by A.O. Scott, who also include Single White Female and Rosemary's Baby in it...plus Eyes Wide Shut, even though these NYC apartments were figments of Kubrick's mind. Gothamist would like to add Ransom, Sliver, and Laura. For the less luxury but still scary apartments, Gothamist recommends Wait Until Dark and the NYC apartment movie thriller to end all NYC apartment thrillers, Rear Window.

The staff at the Pierre denies any fine: