MY WEEKEND: Lucy DeVito

“Wikipedia is wrong!” Lucy DeVito says. “I was born in Los Angeles, not New York, but my parents and I would come here a lot, so I feel like a New Yorker.” The oldest of Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman’s three children finally made it official 10 years ago, when she moved here. Now 34, she’s starring in off-Broadway’s “Hot Mess.” From Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill, where she lives with her cat, Sylvester, in a brownstone full of friends (“It’s like a dorm!”), she tells BARBARA HOFFMANabout her weekends.

I love walking down Clinton Hill’s Greene Avenue. It’s very neighborhoody. There’s a great place there called Mekelburg’s, a kind of fancy grocery store, and in the back there’s a bar. I go in there and buy fancy ice cream — mint chocolate chip.

I like consignment stores. Su’juk is part vintage clothes store, part hair salon. They also do tarot card readings, and I’ve gotten my cards read there. I always buy driftwood-scented candles and I once found a striped designer button-down shirt from the ’80s there. I think I paid $24 for it.

On Gates Avenue, there’s an amazing Italian restaurant: Locanda Vini e Olii. It’s in an old pharmacy — the front of it still has the pharmacy’s name on it — and they have all these little tchotchkes and knickknacks and things behind glass. Whenever my parents come to Brooklyn, I take them there. It’s warm and cozy, and they have a whole Negroni menu — there’s, like, six options! We usually get a bottle of white wine. They [serve] an amazing truffle pasta that comes wrapped in brown parchment paper. When you unwrap it, it feels like a little gift.

Usually when my dad comes, someone offers him an after-dinner Limoncello and we get a little toasted. My father’s ancestors were near Bari [in Italy] and my mom’s side is Russian and Polish, so I’m also a fan of Zabar’s and Russ & Daughters. I can never pass up a good schmear!

My sister, Gracie, is an artist, so when she’s in town we go to the galleries in Chelsea. She always knows what to see. We’ll also go to the Frick, which I love. It feels like a little gem within the city. It’s very serene. I love the way you can feel transported, sitting around Old Masters, and then getting up close to see the colors and textures.