Year: 2011

did Bouley learn to clean up after himself on Duane Street?

or did the rental market improve on its own?One implication of an item from yesterday’s New York Daily News Best Places Voyeur is that restaurateur David Bouley has cleaned up his act; another may be that lawyers who use a

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maple beats oak, handily, and 9th beats 10th, as 21 East 22 Street loft close up 26% since 2007

neighbor, not so handyFor fans of neighbor-on-neighbor competition, it does not get much better than this. Two Manhattan lofts with identical footprints that share a ceiling/floor come to market in “stunning” condition or better within a few weeks of each

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secrets of the Master List: 16 Manhattan lofts that HIT The Market

colors on the spreadsheetOne recurring topic of my frequent notes to self is to use the aggregate data about Manhattan loft transactions that I collect in the Master List of Manhattan Lofts Sold Since November 2008 (N.B., lofts downtown that

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(Part 2) riffing with Toy + NY Times about higher prices “sprinkled” through Manhattan, including in the loft market

  [having discovered that my draft post was WAY too long for this platform, the end of my Part 1 post follows, with the last paragraph repeated…] … With this building sales history as context, the exemplar July 2011 sale

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riffing with Toy + NY Times about higher prices “sprinkled” through Manhattan, including in the loft market (Part 1)

a different approach to outliersI daresay that the Sunday real estate section lead article in yesterday’s New York Times by Vivian Toy, In New York, a Sprinkling of Higher Prices, will get a lot of play on the inter tubes.

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Sunday diversion / lovers pix

(with bonus zombie)What’s up with kids today, with their zombies and their technology? http://mlkshk.com/p/69H1 h/t Daily Kos © Sandy Mattingly 2011  

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Saturday diversion / 50 years ago today at Yankee Stadium

not with a bang, certainlyWith a h/t to Hall of Famer @DWinfield_ESPN, here is a story about the final game played by the Negro Leagues, an All-Star game the year after the last season ended. On a related note, I

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224 West 18 Street lofts up 13% in a year, down 12% since Peak?

so it seems, but wait (there’s more!)Yesterday’s Just sold! feature in the New York Post featured a Manhattan loft that had (yes!) recently sold. (Why can’t the New York Times do that?) It always interests me when a Manhattan loft

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much diligence due over planned hotel in West 37 Street

how tall is a 300 unit hotel, anyway?Part of the charm of living in loft neighborhoods (in Manhattan and elsewhere), for me and I suspect for many people, is that they may be ‘developing’ neighborhoods, with a certain vitality missing

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painful renovation of 22 Wooster Street loft nets $550k over Peak

errr … “painstaking”I loved the huge 2-bedroom (“3,200 sq ft”) Manhattan loft #4C at 22 Wooster Street when I saw it with some buyers when it was asking $4.35mm, but not so much that my people bid on it. The

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