From Lloyd Grove's Lowdown, New York Daily News:
Do Star Jones and Al Reynolds
have a neighborhood etiquette emergency?
According to entertainment publicist Chris Hulbert, residents of the Reynolds' upper East Side street watched in horror Monday night as an ambulance with lights flashing and sirens blaring had to waste precious minutes maneuvering around a double-parked van, apparently abandoned by the Reynolds' driver in front of their posh apartment building.
Yesterday, a PR rep for the Reynolds' responded: "This is clearly an exaggeration that Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds were unaware of. Their driver was in the van the entire time when the ambulance drove by. He was not asked to move, nor was he given a citation, because the ambulance drove past without incident."
Eyewitness Hulbert told Lowdown: "Their driver just left it idling there, illegally double-parked on a narrow one-way street for 45 minutes. He was nowhere to be seen. Six people had to come out and help guide the ambulance through - there was an inch of clearance on each side. It took a good five minutes, at least."
Hulbert added: "I ran over to their doorman and said, 'Do something!' He called up to Star and Al and tried to get them the hell down there. He just shrugged at me. The driver came down five minutes later, taking his sweet time. By then we had gotten the ambulance through."
According to Hulbert - who was unable to remember the name painted on the emergency vehicle - Star and Al Reynolds appeared about 15 minutes later in their party garb and climbed into the van.
"They made no apologies," said Hulbert. "I was talking to people who said this has happened over and over again. They said her car is always double-parked there."
Star's flack retorted: "Mrs. Reynolds' neighbor should spend his time enjoying this beautiful weather instead of exaggerating about her personal life."