The Melting Pot, In A Vial

The Post’s Lindsay Powers investigates local sperm bank options and sees New York itself:

But I scroll on to more local options, including No. 356 from the Sperm Bank of New York Inc. An 18-page description ($12) and a baby picture (also $12) reveal an Italian-Irish man who works in public relations, is a vegetarian and never gets upset when he has to wait in line. He looks quite dapper as a kid, in a gingham bow tie and straw-colored hair.

But what about the guy with the Ivy League degree on Idant Laboratories’ Web site? He’s a Jew of Russian heritage who studied at a prestigious Midwestern university.

JACKPOT! He went to Dalton, the super-exclusive Upper East Side high school. But could I use that to get our kid in?

Intrigued, I click to spend an extra $8 and view a handwritten 10-page profile, where I learn that this guy — a lab technician calls him “a really rich and good-looking lawyer” — has self-described “excellent, thick” hair.

But let’s be honest. I’m a blonde. And women want their kids to resemble them a bit.

“You won’t have a 5-foot-2 Chinese woman saying to us, ‘I want a blond, tall donor,'” said Rodgaard.

My eyes drift over to an Italian-German-Hungarian, at the Park Avenue Fertility Group, who loves Chinese and Italian food and does laundry in his spare time.

“We used to only sell lumberjack types from Minnesota,” said Joanne, the office manager there. “But we started using local samples to appeal to a more Upper East Side, Jewish and WASPy clientele.”