Pippa Middleton's New York Trip Involves Apartment Hunting (PHOTOS)

ZOMG. Everyone, stay calm.

But we have some news, and by news we mean speculation, and by speculation we mean the best thing you've heard all day: Pippa Middleton is moving to New York City.

We first got our hopes up in May, when Grazia reported that the famous Middleton sis was jumping the pond. We debated with our British colleagues why she belonged in Manhattan (or even Brooklyn) over London and which neighborhood she'd select (would she stay stylish in Soho, channel her royal connections uptown or revamp her image on the Lower East Side?).

But May passed and the summer came and went without Pippa gracing our shores... until now. The youngest Middleton sister spent Labor Day weekend at Andre Balazs' hotel Sunset Beach in the Hamptons, dining and playing table tennis with the hotelier. Later she got a view of the real thing at the U.S. Open, taking in a match with Harvard grad and tennis star Spencer Vegosen. She's also rumored to be on plenty of Fashion Week guest lists.

But none of that is as exciting as what Pippa did today. In new paparazzi shots, Pips is seen out and about on Madison Avenue "hunting for apartments" (according to Splash News) with a woman Splash describes as a realtor. For her outing Pippa wore a cropped red pants, a blue blouse and some pretty out-there white sunnies (even though it's gray as can be here un NYC today) -- because when you're a British socialite laying down the foundation for your fabulous new NYC life, you've got to play the part.

We're not sure if Pippa found any flats to her liking. But if she does spring for a place here in NYC, you can bet we'll be keeping our eyes peeled for Pippa sightings like it's our job. Because, well, it kind of is.

Read more about Pippa's weekend exploits with Andre Balazs here and check out her apartment-hunting in the pics below. Do you think Pips should make the move to NYC?

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See Pippa Middleton's style evolution!

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Comments

[gnibaby]

09:01 AM on 09/08/2012

First off shes not royal.... second off who cares? and third... moving to NY will not help her find a rich husband... we do not have the royal system here and all the other wanna-be's are taken or too young.

[ReckingBall]

12:44 AM on 09/08/2012

I for one, welcome her to America.

[larrymanbandana]

08:53 PM on 09/07/2012

Who is Pippa and why should I care?

[ABXNOMORE]

11:38 PM on 09/07/2012

You should care because Huff Po thinks that you should, even tho she is a nobody.

[winilisha]

05:19 PM on 09/07/2012

There are some nice places in the bronx. STOP WITH THE FAKE TAN !

[blondebeblonde]

03:02 PM on 09/07/2012

Wouldn't it be wonderful to be that young and pretty and have that kind of wealth and mobility? She's dated an awful lot of "A" list fellas in Britain, so look out New York City gals!

[Huah]

01:31 PM on 09/07/2012

Lovely woman, NYC will love her like a native daughter.

[Scream75]

01:30 PM on 09/07/2012

Is Pippa a resident (green card holder) of NYC. Why is she not subject to the same immigration laws like every other person? So far as I know she is not royalty and just an ordinary person.

[ABXNOMORE]

11:42 PM on 09/07/2012

Any one can buy property and live here for as long as their tourist visa allows (usually three months but that varies from country to country) and then you can reenter after you have left for a few days. To reside here legally she would have to file for residency and it's not a process that comes that easily unless your job brings you over.

[gnibaby]

09:04 AM on 09/08/2012

Thats not true - in order to buy a home in the US it has to be a primary home and you must occupy for at least a year as your primary. And you must qualify for a home. Of course unless someone buys it for her under their name in the US as a favor... and then flips it over to her...

[Scream75]

12:13 PM on 09/08/2012

Thank you ABXNOMORE. Never heard of a tourist visa. Searched the immigration site and couldn;t find same.

[KingGlorious]

01:10 PM on 09/07/2012

Waterside Plaza is a nice place.

Battery Park City, rocks.

[Cadillac Jack]

12:57 PM on 09/07/2012

Pippa is hoping to be noticed by Larry Flynt.

[ABXNOMORE]

11:43 PM on 09/07/2012

He wouldn't want her. He'd be more interested in her cousin Katrina Darling.

[Drake Mallard]

12:28 PM on 09/07/2012

To the British taxpayer

What's the difference between a Royal Family and a family that's on welfare?

Everything the royal family has was stolen form their peasants (George William Frederick )

to William Arthur Philip Louisy and Henry Charles Albert David putting on a burger king paper crown does not make you royalty. Stop living off the taxpayer and get a real job

There is no such thing as royalty. Your decedents of England's dictators are not special people. I can't believe you are gullible enough to willingly pretend like they are better than you. We escaped that absurd circus 240 years ago, and you can too. Be free!

[deluk]

04:52 PM on 09/08/2012

All the indices show that the British are far freer than Americans, as are all the Northern European monarchies, yours is a nation with the highest ratio of people physically imprisoned in the world, a nation in thrall to the mental imprisonment of religion and puritanism, a nation that sends armed policemen into schools, and passes more laws governing the actions of it's citizens than any other, actually the list is endless, oh and the two individuals you mention have jobs and receive no money from the taxpayer.  No American is ever in a position to exort others to "Be Free", the idea is laughable.  YOU ditch your self deluded propaganda, Be Free!  it's been going on for centuries and it is one of the factors contributing to the demise of your nation.  You can't survive in the real world if you live in a fantasy world.  "America, land of the free?"

[pete cole]

06:19 PM on 09/08/2012

The Patriot Act alone proves you have no real idea of freedom, there wouldn't be a cat in hell's chance of passing a law like that in the UK we treasure our freedom too much

[mairs]

12:11 PM on 09/07/2012

Pippa meet Bristol Palin. I can see it now.... "Pippa Tripps Over America".

[melissa3113]

10:50 AM on 09/07/2012

YAYYYY!!!!!! WOOOOHOOOO! Best news I could have rec'd today.

[G Beez]

07:48 AM on 09/07/2012

Did she grace NYC with a royal fart? And if so, did she speak of it with Lord Henry the 70th. Pippa is special. What a name and so fitting of royalty. Welcome to NYC Duchess Pippa Poopa. Here you will find our democratic leaders aren't so democratic either.

[arseclath]

02:49 AM on 09/07/2012

Does this "isn't quite a princess" with the fake bottom still paying a PR company to flahs her ugly image on the tabloids? What does she do? what has she done?

[Ashley Ames Dylenski]

12:16 AM on 09/07/2012

Pippa, welcome into our open arms! Not all New Yorkers are as miserable as these posters would lead you to believe!