Image via Vanity Fair.

Yesterday saw a (perhaps inevitable) development in the Occupy Wall Street protests: Gawker posted a map locating the homes of the most prominent members of the so-called 1% (i.e., the 1% of Americans who control about a quarter of the nation’s wealth). This information is readily available to anyone who knows how to use Google, but the provocation to protest the one-percenters in their neighborhoods — rather than in a park near their downtown offices — belongs to Gawker.

Looking at the map, it occurs to us that Steve Jobs might have lived by the words “Stay hungry. Stay foolish,” but Tea Party fundraisers live by “Buy real estate on Central Park East.”

Here are a few images of the buildings.

Si Newhouse’s property, next to the United Nations.

Unsurprisingly, the buildings tend to fall into the categories of “historic tower” (the UN Plaza Towers, above) or “solid pre-War neoclassical.” As you can see from Gawker’s map, there’s a kind of Bermuda Triangle of Billionaires above East 67th Street.

What’s really interesting, though, is that New York is still the great leveler: despite being the primary fundraiser for the Tea Party, or the CEO of Goldman Sachs, there’s only so much you can do to broadcast your wealth — architecturally speaking — in one of the densest cities in the world.

Tea Party fundraiser Ed Koch’s digs.

Mort Zuckerman, owner of the Daily News, lives on this stoic corner.

The building where shamed Newscorp Chairman Rupert Murdoch owns property.

Carl Icahn lives adjacent to the MoMA.

Donald Trump lives (duh) at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.

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15 Central Park West – home to several on the list.

Bonus! The facade of the hotel where fellow “one-percenter” Dominique Strauss-Kahn didn’t assault a hotel cleaning lady:

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