if you are old enough, you will remember what happened then at Kent State University. (If not, Wiki is your friend.) Could my memory be right? I have a strong recollection of learning about it that afternoon from looking over…
Category: caution no real estate content
best cold day EVER
it’s a brand new dayI am writing this Monday, for posting on Tuesday at the precise moment the new President takes the oath of office. By that time (this time) I will have been standing at 12th Street and Pennsylvania…
quote of the day / avoid PR war with a PO'd writer
is this a fair fight?Today’s NY Post provides a quote that almost put coffee on my screen. Nothing to do with real estate (that would be Glengarry Glen Ross), but the story about Jeremy Piven’s ‘health’ issues keeping him off…
R I P Herbert Watnik 9.21.1921 to 11.25.2008
Personal note here, that feels appropriate to ‘express’ on *my* blog though this must surely violate someone’s notions of etiquette …. My father-in-law died last evening at 10:21 PM of (in my lay terms) complications from pneumonia after having…
fuggedabowdit (or not) / polite New Yorkers?
another stereotype bites There are few generalizations about the ‘character’ of New York (and its denizens) that are more (… well …) general than the image of the irascible New Yorker — too busy running slow-moving out-of-town pedestrians over to…
Tagged with: Courtesy, Helsinki, London, Moscow, Mumbai, Paris, Politeness, Readers Digest, Rudeness, Zurich
when in the course…
BIG Holiday! ‘See’ you Sunday or Monday. In the meantime … When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among…
40 years ago
This was about 45 years ago in Washington, but I am not going to link to The Event of 40 years ago today in Memphis. R.I.P. brother Martin.
Tagged with: Martin Luther King
mea culpa
MLG withdrawalI hope I am not the only one who has been suffering from Manhattan Loft Guy withdrawal this week…. I am just back from a family trip to Florida (wife’s Spring Break; daughter’s new job and apartment; father-in-law’s brother),…
happy holiday, especially to the women …
… baseball fans, as the Pitchers and Catchers of ten major league baseball teams report to Spring Training today, including the Yankees. (The full reporting date schedule can be accessed here.) Happy baseball! What … you thought I had a…
tree on the elevator / 1 year + 400 posts ago – merry merry
133 West 14 Street one year ago was my Christmas post: happy condos to all, and to all a good night; it still works for me. One year ago this was a construction site, with a Christmas tree riding on…
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