Justin Long Says Hello to the Lower East Side

• Justin Long, the former Mac Guy and current beau of Drew Barrymore, is paying $2.43 million for a two-bedroom apartment at Blue, the Bernard Tschumi-designed building on the Lower East Side. [NY Sun]
• Outgoing Met Museum director Philippe de Montebello and his wife Edith sold their two-bedroom apartment at 2 East 86th Street for $2.195 million this week. They've already made the move to a larger apartment a few blocks up. [NYO]
• Morgan Stanley's new president of global wealth management, Ellyn McColgan, closed on a three-bedroom, eighth-floor apartment at 91 Central Park West for $7.25 million. She won't have much trouble settling in: In a recent interview, McColgan mentioned that she paid $25,000 out of her own pocket to hire a "moving manager" to place every last item of clothing in her drawers.

• Investment analyst Thomas Wei, named one of the best stock pickers of 2006 by Forbes, has closed on an Upper West Side townhouse for $7.95 million. The four-bedroom home at 12 West 83rd Street features a small garden in the front and fireplaces throughout.
• Handbag designer Charmaine Ho bought a West Village townhouse for $8.1 million. Her Hong Kong-based parents paid for the three-floor townhouse. When she's not designing handbags, Ho is a student at Parsons. But the Hos will undoubtedly be happy to hear she plans on getting a roommate and renting out the bottom two floors of the house. [NYO]

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