• Fashion magazines getting thinner. Nervous friends watch as they push salad around on their plate. [WSJ]

• Vendy award finalists announced! [MidtownLunch]

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[Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick share an onset kiss. All photos via Getty] After spending the last two weeks cavorting around Soho, the cast of Gossip Girl is back filming on the Upper East Side. Blake Lively and Leighton Meester were spotted shooting scenes in front of the Met, while Meester and Ed Westwick filmed a different kind of scene. Everyone’s favorite snooty, yet oh so vulnerable and misunderstood couple, Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass got all lovey-dovey while shooting a scene. Who cares, you ask? Well, thanks to these photos, we give you the Chuck Bass Guide To Kissing. Check it out… More»

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Custom couture cleaner Madame Paulette celebrated its 50 year anniversary with the unveiling of a newly renovated Upper East Side boutique and three nights of exclusive parties.Cristina Greeven Cuomo, R. Couri Hay and Amanda Hearst were among the many guests who showed up in appreciation of the masters of spot removal, and also lend support to the company’s new fashion donation program. More»

• The Hills and The City have really infiltrated our ‘real world’…we talk about our ‘friends’ much too often…I mean did you see what Whitney was wearing?…Anyhow LC has some reality show life lessons for us! [HuffingtonPost]

• You don’t have to walk around like a crazy person to find a cab….if you are on the Upper East Side that is. And if you want to carpool for 6 bucks and up [DailyIntel]

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• Dude, 4/20 was so three days ago.  Not so, according to three men who were arrested for transporting what must have been tons of marijuana via a mobile-home in Staten Island [Gothamist]

• Dior “Beauty Ambassador” Tinsley Mortimer gives make-overs to foster children - because that’s the one thing foster kids all over the world dream about… [NY Mag]

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• We can’t get enough of Larry David, but can his “Curbed” along with that first popular show of his return our country back to its glory days?  [EW]

• So all of Julia Allison’s exes make millions as soon as they get rid of her, huh? Whose next in line to be a multi-millionaire then? Maybe a business-ex? [Gawker]

• Apparently, money can buy happiness. And just about anything else for that matter, thanks to a concierge lifestyle service that can do just about everything - at the right price [NY Post]

• In a rush? Think twice before using that emergency exit next time you’re leaving the subway. Unless you want to spend the night in the slammer that is [Gothamist]

• Not happy? Move to Staten Island. Or at least that’s what the results of this poll entitled How Happy is Your ‘Hood? indicate. But hey, if you’re not feeling Staten Island, you can always try the Upper East Side [Curbed]

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Around 8:30 this morning, the AP began reporting about ANOTHER crane collapse on the East Side, at 91st and 1st Avenue. This follows the crane collapse that killed seven people two months ago on 52nd and 2nd Avenue, which now leaves less confidence than ever with New York’s adherence to construction codes, particularly on the East Side. (And the collapses seem to be creeping closer and closer to my apartment, which also does not inspire confidence with all the luxury condo buildings going up in the area, which was bad enough in guaranteeing the near-constant skull-numbing noise of jackhammering.)

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