Renovations and neighbors—even famous ones—don’t mix well; Lady Gaga’s LES launch-pad is for rent; Helen Hunt leaves the West Side for the West Coast; SATC townhouse changes hands for the price of many Manolos.

Curbed NY digs up the ten best celebrity renovations, based on scope, results and how annoyed the neighbors were. Among the winners were Tyra Banks, whose neighbors at Battery Park City’s Riverhouse were less excited than she about the mega-duplex she created out of four apartments, and Anderson Cooper’s carefully-watched complete renovation of a historic firehouse at 84 West 3rd Street.

Lady Gaga’s former apartment in the Lower East Side is for rent. The one-bedroom apartment at 176 Stanton Street is going for $1,850 a month. The performer, who grew up on the Upper West Side near Lincoln Center, chose to spend her pre-stardom years in the downtown neighborhood alone with her music, reading poetry and being, “overly dramatic about everything.” (US Magazine). Coincidentally, the apartment’s location isn’t far from Madonna’s first New York City launch pad at 232 East 4th Street.

Actress Helen Hunt, who is no longer Mad About New York City and has been spending most of her time in Los Angeles, has put her Upper West Side home on the market for $2.75 million. The circa-1915 three-bedroom, three-bath co-op on West 86th Street has a semi-private elevator entrance (Zillow Blog).

Rumor has it that fashion designer Tina Knowles is moving into pop star daughter Beyonce’s apartment at One Beacon Court at 151 East 58th Street. Tina recently sold her apartment on a lower floor of the East Midtown building for $5.6 million (she bought it for $2.9 million in 2005) and is moving to a higher-floor apartment that Beyonce owns (though she doesn’t live there) (TRD).

Sometimes buildings themselves are the movie stars: The Greenwich Village townhouse at 64 Perry Street that was filmed as Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment in the first three seasons of Sex and the City was just sold for $9 million. The townhouse was built in 1866 and has 10 rooms, six fireplaces, a backyard and a front courtyard (IBT).