lofts for less in a less labeled land The Manhattan loft nabe I called Big Sky country a month ago was featured in the NY Post two weeks ago as a land of less expensive lofts, but reporter Max…
Month: September 2006
nahhh, don
remember those two new public schools for downtown? The TriBeCa Tribune is reporting that two of the new schools slated for construction downtown are delayed, due to what the Mayor’s office terms “delayed funding”. (Not much of an explanation,…
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more not-staying-the-same, East Village edition / will a developer develop?
maybe they are diversifying down?Gothamist is calling the new nabe Extell-land, referring to the East Village area bounded by 10th and 14th Sts, 2d Av and Av B, since the Extell Development Corporation bought 17 buildings in that grid. The…
a classic loft, warts and all / limitations of the form
415 W 55 St has a beautiful loft, but…Unit 3C at 415 W 55 St (offered by Karen Fornash at Corcoran) is the archetype of a (small-ish) loft: the building has some kind of industrial background, ceilings are 12 ft…
September 11 / 343 firefighters
Another powerful number from the World Trade Center on September 11. 343 New York City firefighters died on September 11, 2001. Think about that. Three hundred and forty-three. How many cities in this country even have 343…
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five falling prices /
‘tis the season There is a new market after Labor Day, or at least new energy. Both buyers and sellers are “back” from the summer, whether they have been physically elsewhere or not. Many sellers decide to change the…
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yikes they did it again / NY Times recent sales report suggests optimism?
This week’s set of 5 Manhattan sales in the Sunday Residential Sales Around the Region again reflects (a) a coincidence or (b) an editorial view to breed optimism about he market. As with the last time I commented on…
September 11
It turns out that I am most definitely not able to post much of anything today, and still unable to read (let alone watch) what passes for media coverage of the fifth anniversary. Please click on http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/ for…
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and the answer is
WSJ’s Stewart gets smug Jonathan Miller started a thread on Matrix about market timing, in response to James Stewart in the Wall Street Journal expression of relief about not having to listen to more people brag about their real…
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