NY Times tells tales of intrigue, hubrisTerrific piece by VToy in today’s Sunday real estate section of the New York Times, Is That A Bulldozer I Hear? The subtle take-away is that New York City apartment or loft owners who…
Month: October 2011
diligence due + negligence committed as West 15 Street lofts + East 15 Street apartments lose views
Tagged with: City Council, Community Board, Coop Board, Diligence, East 15, New Development, Ny Times, Views, Vtoy, West 15
Saturday diversion / Soho as “Hell's Hundred Acres” (Tribeca too!)
(pre-A.I.R., no less)Did you know that the New York Public Library staff blogs? I didn’t, either. This is from an April 22, 2011 post, A Helluva Town: The Origins of New York’s Hellish Place Names: (h/t @NabeWise on Twittter; someone…
nominee for dumbest 'analysis' by the media of a Manhattan real estate sale
I think we have a winnerI hope that regular Manhattan Loft Guy readers realize that I appreciate the coverage of the Manhattan real estate business in The Real Deal; they often cover things other local media do not and seem…
Tagged with: Awards, Heritage, Malpractice, Real Estate Industrial Complex, Riverside, Roberts, The Real Deal
everybody is talking about cancer today
with the news about The Big Man from CupertinoAll I will say here about Steve Jobs is that he seems to have lived well (productively, certainly) with a death sentence of uncertain duration. There is grace in that, yet I…
Diamond Duane mini-loft sells above 2008 after adding space(!)
you don’t see that every dayThe Manhattan loft #4C at 137 Duane Street that just sold for $949,000 was marketed with a floor plan that was billed as “approximately 825 square feet” (bless that babbled modifier!), but when it was…
Tagged with: Anniversary, Birthday, Developer, Diamond Duane, Duane, Efficient, Kitchen, Rational, Square Feet, White Box
motivated (proud?) seller picked the wrong price at 315 West 23 Street loft, again + again
new kitchen had to be some help, right?One story for the Manhattan loft #12A at 315 West 23 Street (the Broadmoor), which cleared the market at $1.135mm on August 24 is that was down nearly 20% from The Peak, but…
366 Broadway loft sells up 10% over 2004 but flat to 2007
almost prize-winning seller wins by selling at almost his purchase priceSticking with that theme from last week of how is the Manhattan loft market niche doing compared to 2007?, the Manhattan loft #7B at 366 Broadway (the Collect Pond House)…
Tagged with: 1980s, 1997, 2004, 2007, broadway, Collect Pond, Five Points, Glass Brick, Renovation, Scorcese
out-of-season Sunday diversion / “football” in a baseball weekend
it is not really about footballOn a crisp fall day like today, the time is right for … post-season baseball. Two NL games today, and I believe that the Tigers are also playing somebody today. So today’s diversion comes (well)…
little loft, big price for 720 Greenwich Street loft
a Pinched Long-and-Narrow??I am not going to say that the footprint to the “740 sq ft” mini loft #4C at 720 Greenwich Street is the strangest for a Manhattan loft, because I am still young and there are so many…
Tagged with: 2005, Babble, Greenwich, Kitchen, Longandnarrow, Miniloft, Mortgage Costs, Renovation, Rent, West 12
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