Bookmark: Princesses of Manhattan

As spectator sports go in our fair city, we’ve got a healthy line-up of mythic and brawn-staffed franchises. Any night of the week we can be out cheering them on–complete with ballpark food, chest painting and tepid beer: 2 (American) football teams, 2 baseball teams, 2 hockey teams, 1 very deplorable basketball team…and more!

But the really intense competition occurs among New York’s elite, the richest of the rich.

Everything about them, their lives and their perfectly coiffed antics usually result in a metro-outing within the Society pages of our (many, many) publications, blogs and local news stations — including, of course, Gawker.com.

Socialite gazing and gossiping! Scoooore!

Who showed up where, in what designer outfit, with what NY dandy on her arm, how much she paid to get her Chihuahua massaged…and lately, who is showing up in advertisments for famous clothing and jewelry designers.

There are Astors and Guggenhiem’s and Getty’s galore…there’s Keira, and Lindsay and Gwyneth et al…and can you guess the most famous socialite of them all…is it Paris Hilton?

Here is a blog you MUST bookmark, and chat about around the water cooler or phone your friends. It is Social Rank (www.socialrank.wordpress.com). Perfectly good cyber space used for ranking socialites!.
Their mantra is:

• Next time…you think about skipping that certain gala, wearing that unknown designer, dating some weird band member, beware. We’re watching. And your ranking is on the line…

I understand it can pretty competitive among the debutantes who do visit the site. Yummy!

This is simply fabulous if you want an irreverent, hilarious and sometimes catty view of the upper-crust (less) club in Manhattan. Check them out. One of my favorites is a recent post, “What We Love For June“.

Interested in buying a small island?

By the way, the socialite’s male counter-part is not overlooked either: The Male Debutante.