Whitney Pal: She Needs to Be a "Confident New Yorker"

Move over, Lauren Conrad: Whitney Port has a new pal looking to give her advice about her New York City life.

On this week's episode of MTV's The City, Port's coworker, NYC socialite Olivia Palermo, advises Port on how she should go about finding her first apartment — without the help of her boyfriend, Jay Lyon. (Watch the clip above.)

"Whitney's been wanting advice about apartments and asking what areas she should look [in], and I gave her suggestions, but said 'Don't get the first place you see,'" Palermo recounts to her cousin Nevan on tonight's episode. "We were at a photoshoot the other day and [Whitney] got a call from Jay that he had found her a place. She scooted out early from work to check it out and I covered for her. It was the first apartment [she looked at] and she got it! I told her not to."

While Palermo is bummed Port passed on her advice, her cousin raises a valid point: "At least her boyfriend's not living at the apartment!"

"I know she's new at all of this -- and I'm trying to guide her -- but hopefully she'll start to take some of my advice at some point," Palermo continues. "She has to be the confident New Yorker, not the L.A. girl."