Dinah Lord: Gaddafi's upcoming trip to NYC - Doggone! Will he end up living in his car?

Gaddafi's upcoming trip to NYC - Doggone! Will he end up living in his car?

UPDATE - 9/22: Gaddafi pitches his tent anyway? Next to Martha Stewart? On Donald Trump's property?

It looks like he's having a hard time finding a place...

(This property located at 5 E. 78th St. was the property they were interested in and it does have a bit of a history in local real estate lore.)

Get lost, Khadafy!

Keep on moving, Moammar.

Agents for the terrorist-coddling Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy were met with a strong-arm from a real-estate broker they approached to rent a posh Upper East Side townhouse for his visit to the city this week.

The broker, with characteristic New York chutzpah, told them to take a hike back to the desert.

"They kept asking, 'What would be the price? What would be the price?' I thought about it and said, 'Why don't you send Megrahi back to Scotland, and then maybe we can work something out.' They hung up on me immediately," said Jason Haber, a broker for Prudential Douglas Elliman.

As far as Gaddafi - he won't end up living in his car. It looks like the Libyans have settled with putting him up at the country's 48th Street mission.

Where he was promptly welcomed by Maggie the dog...

"A politically incorrect pooch delivered a stream of consciousness protest Saturday as Libyan officials rolled out the red carpet for dictator Moammar Khadafy"

"Maggie the dog was out for a walk when she responded to the pomp by taking a pee on the lush rug outside the Libyan Mission - a gesture appreciated by many New Yorkers with little use for the notorious colonel."

""The dog had excellent taste," said Mark Birnbaum, 57, a Mission neighbor who watched the whole thing. "She's a sweetheart.""

"Aggravated Libyan officials were forced to cut away a section of the carpet that stretched across the E. 48th St." sidewalk from the curbs to the steps."

Heh.

September 20, 2009 at 10:53 AM | Permalink