The Bushes are moving into my neighborhood!

[Westegg]

...A Shrub cousin just bought a place about 75 yards from my front door. I'd like to bring a "Welcome, neighbor!" gift. Any ideas?

"George Herbert Walker IV, President Bush's second cousin, paid $13.95 million for a townhouse at 6 East 10th Street in Greenwich Village.

Walker became a partner at Goldman Sachs at age 29. He raised enough money for his famous cousin to earn the rank of a Bush Pioneer.

"I'm very proud of my family, but I don't talk about them," he told the Village Voice in 2003. "That's not something that is going to make our clients money."

After serving as the head of Goldman's Hedge Fund Strategies, Walker left to become Lehman Brothers' the global head of its $188 billion Investment Management Division in 2006. He lives at 45 Greene Street in Soho.

The 7,000-square-foot, seven-bedroom townhouse has a swimming pool. It had previously been separate apartments. The sellers, Anthony Oldfield and Jennifer Lister Oldfield, bought the century-old building for just $7.5 million in two years ago."

[FloridaJudy]

1. Got any dead rats?

I'm sure the place needs a few, just to give it some class.

[Westegg]

4. Dead? No. Live? Many. It's irnonic to me...

...that George Herbert Walker IV is moving onto the same block that was once home to people like Willa Cather, Mark Twain, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere-- not to mention his new neighbors, the still-lively "Pen and Brush Club," a women's arts organization whose members have included Eleanor Roosevelt, Ida Tarbell and Pearl Buck.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. An Obama yard sign...perfect.

You poor, poor thing.

[Westegg]

3. I just saw an Obama sign about two buildings down...

...from the "Shrub Hub" (which I'm now calling it). The Obama poster is very large, really nice, and in the front window. Perfect!

[crimsonblue]

5. buy a curious george book...

[dembotoz]

6. with invasive plant species ruining wilder areas perhaps a flyer on removing noxious bushes