Leonardo DiCaprio Buys Ecofriendly Battery Park Apartment

Yet more evidence that Leonardo DiCaprio, arguably Hollywood’s most attractive green ambassador, lives by his word. The actor, in Boston with Martin Scorsese filming Shutter Island, just bought a Hudson River–facing apartment at Riverhouse, an ecofriendly Battery Park City development that’s been LEED-certified gold (the second-highest rating for green buildings). He was spotted numerous times arriving at the site’s sales office on his bike. It’s a great fit for DiCaprio, one of the first megawatt celebrities to go green: The builders will use only non-pollutant materials and finishes, and residents will be provided with twice-filtered air and solar-powered energy. The do-gooding Action Center to End World Hunger has already signed up for a ground-floor retail space in the building. Through his publicist, DiCaprio, who’s executive-producing the upcoming Discovery Channel series Eco-Town, would only say this: “Riverhouse is a prime example of how green technology is both accessible and achievable for new residential developments—it is a groundbreaking building.”