“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 HOFFMAN about her weekends.