WASHINGTON.
BILL CLINTON got used to living near his office over the last eight years, and he’s finding it hard to give up the easy commute.
So after the soon-to-be-former president signed a lease for office space at Metropolitan Tower at 142 W. 57th Street, he went house-hunting only two doors down.
Sources tell The Post’s Braden Keil that Clinton checked out a two-bedroom, million-dollar-plus pad on a high floor at Metropolitan Tower at 146 East 57th St.
If he feels like a snack while walking to work, the two buildings are separated by the Russian Tea Room, a favorite eatery of the Clintons, where Bill celebrated his birthday in 1999.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, joining with other New York lawmakers in a noble, long-running fight to win protection for Governors Island, recently signed a letter with Sen. Charles Schumer urging its protection.
To whom did they mail the letter? Why, her husband, of course, the one man with the power to wave a wand and designate the island as a historic treasure.
“You can ensure that its historic forts are protected as a national monument, which would fulfill half of the plan outlined by [former] Sen. [Pat] Moynihan, Gov. Pataki, [Assembly] Speaker [Sheldon] Silver and Mayor Giuliani last January,” went the letter.
We can only imagine the end-of-the-day conversation between Clinton and Clinton on that one.
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Today marks another landmark of sorts for newly minted Sen. Clinton: her first chance to cross-examine a Cabinet appointee.
New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, selected by George W. Bush to oversee the Environmental Protection Agency, today heads to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, on which Clinton sits.
It’s Clinton’s first confirmation hearing, and will be eagerly studied by Congress-watchers curious about how the first lady will handle herself.