Woman Attributes Apartment Find To Being Special-er

Now that she is comfortably settled in her sweet-deal-of-a-one-bedroom in Brooklyn Heights, actress-turned-interior designer, Catherine Brophy, tells the New York Times that it was her unique ability to sense the feng shui, or the flow of energy through the apartments she saw during her hunt that guided her to her present gem.

“[The apartment she sought] had to have the perfect energy and good bones.”

But other than satisfy Ms. Brophy’s ghoulish demand for bones, it would seem her special sensibilities did little to guide her that smart, NYC apartment hunters’ common sense could not.

For example, Ms. Brophy says she applied to a cute, inexpensive apartment because the northwest facing front door indicated good feng shui. And yet, the apartment’s mysterious mojo—the working fireplace? the claw-foot tub?—wasn’t lost on the many other applicants who probably wouldn’t have cared if the front door faced a portal to hell, and one of whom is living there now since the management company “lost” Ms. Brophy’s application.

Most apartment hunters' street smarts were probably also equally matched against Ms. Brophy's ability to read feng shui when it came to dodging overpriced-hell-hole bullets. Luckily for her, among the apartments that didn't pass feng shui muster were apartments that were: out her price range, way too far away from work, in scary places to come home to at night, overlooking garbage, within an arm's length of subway tracks, really ugly, or dangerous.

But where Ms. Brophy seems most satisfied that her specialness merited her the awesome apartment she lives in now, was in her ability to know that she had finally found "the one." Of course it would be extremely difficult to demonstrate that this was not the case. After all, without a search warrant or probable cause, no one will ever know exactly how many good bones she has away in there.

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