Month: March 2013

just another wordy day for a wordy Manhattan Loft Guy, but a milestone post

if you keep doing this long enough you will do a lot of theseI wonder if any readers who noted the Countdown thing at the bottom of the last ten posts were readers back in August 2009, the last time

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42 White Street penthouse loft sells with 1 bedroom, 5 outdoor spaces at $2,786/ft (before adjustment)

living large (and alone) for $4.65mmI can read the broker babble (“2 bed”) as well as the next guy, but the floor plan and pictures associated with the “1,669 sq ft” Manhattan loft #6 at 42 White Street make it

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our long national nightmare is over, as 57 Bond Street loft sells with strangest history you will see today

every party needs a pooperThis post may only be for the fanatic spectators of the Manhattan residential real estate game who collect odd price histories. I am going to ruin the suspense by telling you that the “2,110 sq ft”

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when beautiful things happen to high ceilings / 720 Greenwich Street loft sells big after mezzanine re-do

it’s nice when it worksHow big does the footprint of the Manhattan loft #1J at 720 Greenwich Street (floor plan here) look to you? Put aside for the moment the high ceilings that permit a mezzanine and do the math;

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Sunday diversion / London in 48,000 images, 320 gigapixels

big city, HUGE photoFrom one metropolis to another … I can’t remember where I saw this link, but it is a cool story and a visual treat for you folks who know London well. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2282054/320-gigapixel-interactive-picture-London-lets-20-MILES-zoom-people-street.html (Countdown … 10 … 9

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diversion / when Manhattan skyscrapers and sky were further apart, circa 1900

Manhattan skyline and skyscrapers from 100 years agoThis will take some clicking around, but there is a reward. If, that is, you’d like to see what "skyscrapers" looked like in Manhattan back when such things were being born. This discussion

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noisy neighbors / what if it’s you they are complaining about?

some advice, freely given, worth …?I had one of those friend-of-a-friend-of-a-client conversations this week about a noise-related New York real estate issue that the FOAFOAC has. I was then thinking about sending the guy (let’s call him “M” to make

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