staying away from baseball today (way up, up, up and away)How many times have you heard “New York as you’ve never seen it”? Maybe it is true in all cases; maybe not. Unless you are in the habit of hanging…
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I cannot deal with the media orgy today
not sure why, after ten yearsAs of about a week ago, I thought this year would be different. That I would be able to read stories and look at video and images from ten years ago, and even to (finally)…
Tagged with: Firefighters, Media, Ny Times, Pennsylvania, Pentagon, September 11, World Trade Center
a Tuesday diversion / vintage Manhattan photos 1941, 1942
driving me crazy, and you?Don’t click here if you don’t have a few minutes, because you will be late to your next appointment or call. It is a collection of 63 color photographs taken by a visiting businessman, nearly all…
Sunday diversion / Manhattan has a (quick) pulse
a famously quicker pulseAre you tired of time-lapsing Manhattan yet? Me neither! A fellow named MindRelic did this a couple of months ago, hitting 11 hotels (and miscellaneous sidewalks) in 6 weeks. It was well worth 4 minutes of my…
OYAToMLG / 31 West 21 Street movie loft edition (Hollywood also loves Manhattan lofts!)
One Year Ago Today on Manhattan Loft GuyI wrote a year ago about a Manhattan loft about to be featured in a Big Time Movie: Shia LaBeouf doesn’t really live at 31 West 21 Street. That post contains what I…
Tagged with: Charlie Sheen, History, Hollywood, Movies, Oyatomlg, Penthouse, Shia Labeouf, Wall Street, West 21
weekend diversion / Manhattan maps … we got 200+ years of maps
slicing and dicing a sliver of an islandThere has been a lot in the blogosphere to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Manhattan street grid, but this compilation from the Wall Street Journal’s New York blog on March 22 is…
the perils of real estate porn, in Brooklyn about houses or even in Manhattan about lofts
NY Times reader frustrated with (lack of) context for neighborhood change (‘improvement’)There is a fascinating letter to the editor in Thursday’s Home & Garden section of the New York Times, responding to a Location feature in the prior week’s H&G…
Tagged with: Brooklyn, Class, Context, Development, Displacement, History, Ny Times, Portn, Red Hook, Sociology
sellers of awesome Riverdale mansion in yesterday's WSJ want a Manhattan loft!
real estate remains a spectator sportI was out with a long-time friend last night, catching up on families, friends, lives (etc, etc, etc) and (even) real estate. He is a partner in a major Manhattan law firm, lives in Manhattan,…
more on that $100,000 view in small loft at 150 Nassau Street, with a Landmarks bonus
different values to different buyersI am not going to say that The Guy I profiled yesterday who traded one small loft at 150 Nassau Street for $876/ft for another small loft on the same floor at $1,020/ft kept me up…
Tagged with: 19th Century, Beekman, City Hall, Currier Ives, History, Landmarks, Nassau, Skyscrapers, Spruce, Views
NoMad as new “it” micro-nabe? don’t hold your breath
from the Manhattan Loft Guy ‘to do’ listI noted this article from the Wall Street Journal when it hit the inter-tubes on October 8 (North of Madison Square Is Starting to Gel), cogitating on it, as it is a non-residential-neighborhood…
Tagged with: Club, Fifth, Madison, Madison Square, Meatpacking, Museum, Nomad, Park, Restaurant, Sixth
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