In Warhol's days everyone was famous for 15 minutes, now everyone is famous for 15 blocks. Two twentysomethings have recently risen the bar, however, by getting a NYMag piece profiling their neighborhood "fame."
These two ladies (typically stationed at 90 Charles Street) aren't helping out the community, or even talking to anyone but themselves, they're simply sitting on a stoop. All day, every day, winter, spring, summer and fall.
The long-time friends moved here on their parents dime from Alabama and Pennsylvania last year "for kicks," and while one attends classes -- the other presumably does nothing. Yet as they sit there talking, smoking cigs, playing with their pups...the neighbors watch, fascinated. They email each other, they talk about it...they "miss them when they walk away."
Last year a bunch of LES scenesters got press for hanging out by a bench, so this really isn't surprising.
Photo via Brainware3000's Flickr.
