Former LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne tried to buy Babe Ruth’s old apartment but, guess what? She got blocked and Upper West Side co-op board! Can you imagine living in the same building as the Great Babe Ruth himself? That would be legendary!
According to some locals, Dunne is too sparkly for the neighborhood and that she doesn’t belong there.
Other locals said even if Dunne didn’t take a tumble in her $1.59 million bid to buy Yankees great Babe Ruth’s former apartment, the social media phenom would simply have been too “sparkly” for the subdued neighborhood.
“I think she’s making a lot of stuff up to get people to feel sorry for her,” a longtime worker in the West 88th Street building who’s familiar with the matter told The Post.
Many said the Sport Illustrated Swimsuit model’s perpetually online personality would be out of balance in the residential blocks near Riverside Park.
“She’s sparkly! She doesn’t belong here,” joked Monica Rosenberg, who has lived on the block for six years.
“Maybe she likes standing out, but eventually, if this is going to be her home, and she wants to be accepted by her neighbors and be accepted as part of the community, there’s nothing in it for her,” Rosenberg added. “She can walk her dog in Riverside Park five times a day, and then she’ll say this is very boring.”
Boring or not, Dunne apparently had her heart set on buying Babe Ruth’s old home, but hit a foul ball with a very New York City adversary: the co-op board.
Co-op boards notoriously aren’t obligated to say why they reject prospective buyers — a practice that advocates argue fuels racial discrimination and violates the city’s human rights law.
I mean, I get it – it would have been cool to have a famous baseball player’s former pad as your own, but hey, sometimes things don’t go as planned. Who knows what kind of craziness could’ve gone down if Olivia had moved in?
