Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images Construction continues on the One57 luxury condominium building in Manhattan on Jan. 7, 2013 
 
 Think you’re spoiling your child? Think again. A CCTV story is making international headlines after a New York City real estate agent revealed that a Chinese mother purchased a $6.5 million apartment for her toddler. 
 
 Sotheby’s senior vice president Kevin Brown told China’s CCTV that he showed apartments all over Manhattan to the buyer, who is remaining anonymous: 
 
 And she said, well, her daughter was going to go to Columbia, or NYU, or maybe Harvard, and so she needed to be in the center of the city and that was why she was picking this one particular apartment. So I said: ‘Oh, how old is your daughter?’ And she said: ‘Well, she’s 2’. And I was just shocked. 
 
 The woman ended up buying in the luxury Manhattan building One57. The 90-story building, which is still unfinished, was designed by a Pritzker Prize–winning architect and will have a library with a pool table and 7.3-m aquarium, a private concert hall and a “pet washroom” along with an enviable location on 57th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. 
 
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 While some may scoff at the over-the-top purchase, the anonymous mother could be a very savvy real estate investor. According to Brown, less than two years after her purchase at One57, the condo’s value has already shot up to $8.9 million. 
 
 In China, the purchase has tongues wagging about where the money could have come from. According to the Telegraph, comments left on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, suggested that the woman must have been related to a corrupt government official. In a country where income inequality is widening and anger at the extravagant ways of Communist Party officials is growing, the country’s new President Xi Jinping has made combating corruption and official abuse of power a priority. 
 
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 A “discriminating and racist” Harvard University staffer is apologizing after video footage caught her confronting a mother and her toddler for playing outside their own home. 
 
 “I want to be accountable for my actions in a situation where I fell far short of my values and what I expect of myself,” Theresa Lund, executive director of the Harvard University Humanitarian Initiative, wrote in an email to the Boston Globe Monday. “This clearly wasn’t my best moment, and I have work to do to more consistently be my best self.” 
 
 Lund added that she was “terribly sorry” for the “inappropriate and wrong” incident. Her LinkedIn page and her Harvard profile have also been deleted, per the paper. 
 
 On Saturday, a woman named Alyson Laliberte shared a Facebook video of her interaction with Lund, shot outside the women’s neighboring homes in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
 
 “Y’all here is another Permit Patty trying to kick me off my own property because she’s having a hard time getting her kids to take a nap at 3:30 in the afternoon on a Saturday,” Laliberte captioned the July 14th video that received 9K views, 5.5K comments, and 16K shares. 
 
 She continued, “I’m outside enjoying the afternoon with my daughter when this woman came downstairs and asked me if I would move so her kids can nap. Mind you it’s midday and we weren’t even being loud at all drawing with chalk. She followed me around and harassed me trying to get my information and apartment number as if she had a right to know. When I wouldn’t tell her she proceeded to ask me if I lived in the ‘affordable apartments’ of the building for Cambridge residents or if I lived in one of the Harvard owned apartments (which is all the same building anyways).” 
 
 
 
 
 
 Y’all here is another Permit Patty trying to kick me off my own property because she’s having a hard time getting her kids to take a nap at 3:30 in the afternoon on a Saturday. I’m outside enjoying the afternoon with my daughter when this women came downstairs and asked me if I would move so her kids can nap. Mind you it’s mid day and we weren’t even being loud at all drawing with chalk. She followed me around and harassed me trying to get my information and apartment number as if she had a right to know. When I wouldn’t tell her she proceeded to ask me if I lived in the “affordable apartments” of the building for Cambridge residents or if I lived in one of the Harvard owned apartments (which is all the same building anyways). It was totally discriminating and racist of her.. or maybe it was because my daughter is biracial who knows. I have no idea who this woman is and the fact that she thinks she has some kind of authority over me is crazy! She wanted to know what apartment number I lived at so she can yell outside my window to see if I like it (real mature) as you hear her say in the video. This woman’s house is no bigger than mine even if she lives in one of the apartments that are owned by Harvard. Despite color, where I live, how much money I have she will be buried 6 feet under just like me… Why do people think they are literally better than others? Why does she think she has a right to make us move? If she really did not want to be disturbed she would own a one family house instead of deciding on moving in to a condominium with a bunch of neighbors. I’ve lived in this complex for 15 years. Not one other person complained about my daughter and I. I have no idea who this woman is but if someone knows her please tag her and share this if you agree!!!! Posted by Alyson Laliberte on Saturday, July 14, 2018 
 
 Laliberte added, “It was totally discriminating and racist of her…or maybe it was because my daughter is biracial who knows. I have no idea who this woman is and the fact that she thinks she has some kind of authority over me is crazy! She wanted to know what apartment number I lived at so she can yell outside my window to see if I like it (real mature) as you hear her say in the video. This woman’s house is no bigger than mine even if she lives in one of the apartments that are owned by Harvard. Despite color, where I live, how much money I have she will be buried 6 feet under just like me… Why do people think they are literally better than others? Why does she think she has a right to make us move? If she really did not want to be disturbed she would own a one family house instead of deciding on moving into a condominium with a bunch of neighbors. I’ve lived in this complex for 15 years. Not one other person complained about my daughter and I.”
– We get it, parents. You want the best for your kid. Sometimes, that means feeding them nutritious food, reading to them, and being there for them. And sometimes, it means buying them a $6.5 million high-rise apartment in a city on the other side of the planet. That's what one Chinese mother did recently, a top New York City real estate executive told a Chinese TV station, in a story spotted by Time. When he asked her why she was apartment-shopping, "She said, well, her daughter was going to go to Columbia, or NYU, or maybe Harvard, and so she needed to be in the center of the city," says the agent. "So I said, 'Oh, how old is your daughter?' And she said, 'Well, she's 2.'" The move might actually be financially savvy—the apartment's value is already up to $8.9 million—although someone should really tell her that Harvard is in Boston. Chinese social media is already abuzz with speculation that the anonymous buyer might be tied to a corrupt government official.