This Week On The Runway: Crash Pad

Tim Gunn, the universally beloved mentor of Project Runway, paid house visits to the final four in last night's episode, part one of the season three finale. He finds Michael in the ATL, Uli in a stunning beachfront Miami apartment, Jeffrey with his weirldy mohawked wife and unmohawked son and Laura, with her five kids (did she mention she has five kids? Well she does) in a ridiculously huge Manhattan loft. Viewers outside New York might not realize how ridiculously decadent her house is but with price per ft² around $1,083 her rambling apartment must be in the 1.5-2 million range. Check out this comparable property Funny then that she bemoans she never had enough dough to start her own line. The episode, a prelude really, doesn't contain many suprises (we all knew Bennett was well off) except an allegation that Jeffrey outsourced his labor. The teaser for the next episode? A shot of Jeffrey sobbing. Tears of rage? Tears of grief? Tears of joy?

This week also saw an unexpected home visitor in the form of a Cirrus SR20, a four-seat propeller plane, that crashed into an Upper East Side apartment building. The plane, piloted by Yankee's pitcher Cory Lidle caused a four-alarm fire and the deaths of Mr. Lidle and his flight instructor. After crashing into Apt. 40ABG of 524 East 72nd Street the plane exploded, sending giant chunks of debris onto the street below. Amazingly the woman who was in the apartment at the time, escaped unhurt.

Manhattan Plane Crash Kills Yankee Pitcher [NYT]
Property Comparable to Laura Bennett's home

Previously On the Runway: Relaxing the Rules, Returns, Complete Failure, Product Placement, Idiocy and the Mother of Idiocy