Parker Doesn't Pose Here Anymore

Unelected, but somehow anointed “East Village Mascot,” Parker Posey, just traded in her final shred of bohemian street cred when she sold her 1845 brownstone on East 10th Street and purchased a “big girl”, one-bedroom co-op on Fifth Avenue.

Ms. Posey’s relocation, might confirm some observers’ belief that—despite her prolific career in low-budget, independent films in the early- and mid-nineties—at best, she was only ever a sanitized, Hollywood version of an East Village hipster. But then again, some other purists might contend, isn’t the East Village itself—like so many other NYC neighborhoods—becoming a more sanitized, Hollywood version of itself?

Not as long as Chloë Sevigny lives there. No amount of Hollywood scrubbing will ever fade the indelible smudge her role in The Brown Bunny left on her resume (and Vincent Gallo's 501s), but those are the career faux-pas that will guarantee Ms. Sevigny East Village citizenship for life.