New York Daily News

HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF

- Yolanda Foster. Leonardo DiCaprio

Chas uprooted and moved to New York to make sure his musical “Betty Boop” finds its way to Broadway. “I bought a place in New York City,” he told us at the Princess Grace Awards in L.A. “You cannot be that West Coast pop guy who rolls into New York and says, ‘Hey, I am going to do a Broadway musical’ ...Iwanttobea­ccepted and not be “that guy from the West Coast.’ ” Foster (inset), who has won 16 Grammys as a producer for artists including in Tribeca will be quite a change for Foster. On Tuesday, Dailymail.com ran a feature story on the flashy L.A. bachelor pad he’s had for 12 years.

Foster finally moved into that place full-time after leaving his sprawling Malibu home to his reality TV-star wife The pair split in January after 10 years.

But his new life — at least for now — will center on the Big Apple.

“It is vibrant and it is on fire 24/7,” he said of his new lower Manhattan neighborho­od. “I am having a great time there.”

There are lots of changes afoot for the 67-year-old music man, who has been linked to 33-year-old starlet

He insists they’re only friends.

“At a certain point in your career you need to go where you belong,” he said. “I love top-40 music, but it is not what I do anymore. But on Broadway, I can still write a good song that moves people.” He’s the Wolf of Madison Avenue. took time from plugging his “Beyond the Flood” documentar­y on climate change to wolf down some Japanese food at Zuma New York in Midtown. A watcher said Leo was surrounded by pals, who shared hot pots, sushi and robataya-grilled fair. DiCaprio, an investor in the Beyond Meat company, is a big advocate of battling climate change by getting people off of a meat-heavy diet.

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