As an ambassador of New York City, Taylor Swift should be getting to know how the rest of us saps live. Maybe she could take up residence in a micro-apartment or something, at least for a little while, during this difficult time when her $19 million Tribeca penthouse gets renovated and probably cleansed with smoldering sage following her last break-up.
But while we may want to know how the other half lives, the other half is certainly not interested in how we live—so instead of hitting up Craigslist for a rental in the Cemetery Belt, Swift has rented a $40,000/month, four-story carriage house in the West Village. A New York City carriage house is the New York City real estate dream, so who can really blame her.