That, And Blair Waldorf Still Won’t Think You’re Good Enough To Be At Constance Billard

And aren’t some of the schools that cost this much places that snobs sneer at anyway? In other words, it’s more expensive to attend these places than it is to enroll at Harvard, with a fraction of the prestige:

Over the past 10 years, the median price of first grade in the city has gone up by 48 percent, adjusted for inflation, compared with a 35 percent increase at private schools nationally — and just 24 percent at an Ivy League college — according to tuition data provided by 41 New York City K-12 private schools to the National Association of Independent Schools.

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“Within one to two years, every independent school will cost more than $40,000,” said one board member at a top school who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the school had not yet set tuition.

The NICU Is Closed For A Private Event

The problem with New York isn’t so much that celebrities and rich people get special treatment but rather that the service sector money-grubs, whores itself and indulges celebrities and rich people:

[A new father], 38, of Brooklyn said the stress of his wife delivering two premature girls was tripled by Beyoncé’s bodyguards treating Lenox Hill Hospital like an exclusive nightclub.

[The father] griped that he’s been repeatedly barred from the sixth-floor neonatal intensive care unit, once for 20 minutes, by the superstar couple’s private security.

He said bodyguards wearing headsets even cleared the sixth floor waiting room, booting his relatives out.

“Three times they stopped me from entering or exiting the NICU (Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit) and it happened once on Friday — just because they wanted to use the hallway,” said [the father].

Not One Goddamn Word About The Leopard-Print Arm Chair In The Whole Lousy Article

Even the fountain pen is bourgeois in this place but those leopard-print arm chairs — geez, people never notice anything.

How Gentrification Sounds

“‘I’m your friend, I’m not your enemy, but you’ve got to leave.'”

Buried Lede: How Did They Get Those Seats For Only $375?

So much for Aura and Mystique — I thought those tickets were like $1200 or something during the regular season:

It was any Yankee fan’s dream: Late October, the playoffs, the Yankees leading the game, and plenty of food paid by expense accounts and $11 beers being delivered by waiters. After some chat about business and baseball, the inevitable question was raised: when to head for the exit.

It was the fourth inning.

Nonetheless, with evening approaching, ballpark cheers gave way to the siren song of Manhattan and the comforts of an evening of luxury, a short Lincoln Town Car ride away.

Despite paying $375 per ticket on StubHub, the men had no qualms about leaving early, the very idea of which, if introduced in certain other ballparks in certain other cities, might result in a Budweiser bath.

Location Scout: Yankee Stadium.