do Manhattan private school vs. suburban public school anecdotes make a story or just sell papers? Fascinating piece in Monday’s NY Times about parents leaving Manhattan for the idyllic schools of ‘burbville and then end up springing for private…
Year: 2006
a run on turtles / NY Post also discovers Turtle Bay lofts
like a Time & Newsweek cover coincidence, almost In addition to Sunday’s NY Times ‘On The Market’ that featured #15M at 319 E 46 St, which I mentioned yesterday (real loft discovered in Turtle Bay / NY Times features…
from tennis elbow to PDA pain
signs of the times: massage therapy for tired thumbs Attention Masters of the Universe (and other Blackberry, Treo and similar PDA users): it can hurt to over-use your device, as you may already know. But if you stay at…
(no irritating Ps but) more seller psychology / are loft-sellers more prone to ego errors?
the Lake Wobegon effect? My P-filled post about sellers not adjusting to the current market (pseller psychology pstuck pso psales psuffer?) leads to wondering about Manhattan loft sellers. Although my prior post talked a lot about ego-driven decisions…
real loft discovered in Turtle Bay / NY Times features small loft in funny place
2d Av loft building – go figure Today’s NY Times ‘On The Market’ features a loft that is unusual in at least three ways (not counting the green walls): it is just off 2d Av, it is under $1mm,…
pseller psychology pstuck pso psales psuffer?
Sellers are slow to adapt to current conditions, say some Jonathan Miller on Matrix started a chat about seller psychology, expressing the view that (in general) sellers have not accepted the current market facts. One of the interesting…
elections can be rough / not *those* elections
LincolnTowers coop board election generates defamation suit The Daily News reported on a defamation suit brought by a candidate for the coop board in one of the Lincoln Towers, showing that electoral hardball is not confined to traditional politics.…
glass is much more than half-full / glass building fashion is reviewed
Newsday’s review of all the glass-this-and-glass-that in lofts and condos I am not going to add more commentary to Newsday’s review, as they are much more comprehensive and concise than I can be about architecture. I will just note…
Tagged with: 255 Hudson, 40 Mercer, 497 Greenwich, 505 Greenwich, Blue Condo, Gwathmey, Urban Glass House
more rich data and
4 completed sales this year help with ‘comps’ With three lofts offered for sale, four sold between June and October 2006, three sold in 2005 and two sold in 2004, the 40-unit 718 Broadway may be undergoing something of…
dreadful irony / demise of a lovely garbage website
I have considered http://www.garbagescout.com/ to be one of the more unusual god-bless-‘em-entrepeneurial sites. They posted tips from folks who saw (or put) ‘stuff’ on the Manhattan sidewalk for trash pick-ups, in some cases starting races for the ‘stuff’ with…
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