though the focus recently is on Brooklyn A perennial never-get-to on my Don’t Do list is a thought piece on how neighborhoods change, including my personal history as a residential pioneer in the then newly-minted Tribeca (truly TriBeCa in…
Tag: Brooklyn
diversion about real estate (any discussion of Gentrification is tangentially about Manhattan loft neighborhoods)
Tagged with: Brooklyn, Change, Diversion, Gentrification, History, New York Observer, Tribeca, Utne, Williamsburg
stubborn flower district loft seller holds for sale at 133 West 28 Street with rooftop garden
Conventional Wisdom takes another (small) hitWe’ve been here before: sometimes the Conventional Wisdom (“conventional” because it is common; “wisdom” because it is … errr … wise) is wrong. Conventional Wisdom holds that a professional, broadly exposed, marketing campaign of 3…
Tagged with: 2006, Brooklyn, Conventional Wisdom, Floor Plan, Flower District, Roof Deck, Townhouse, West 28
when a condo board sues a developer, must resales die?
the cat may already have left the bagThe Christine Haughney Appraisal story in today’s New York Times touches (again) on the consequences to owners who would like to sell when there is a dispute about the condition of the building.…
Tagged with: Appraisal, Assessment, Brooklyn, Developer, Dirty Laundry, Due Diigence, Haughney, Lawsuit, Ny Times, Repairs
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
Observer observes 262 Mott Street loft sale without overlap
quote of the (snowy) dayThe New York Observer posted a piece on-line last night about the recent sale of the Manhattan loft #203 at 262 Mott Street, a pre-Civil War loft with an Olde New York view over Old Saint…
rebels in REBNY may repel web listing portal
who at REBNY wants this thing, and why? I blogged about the Nov 1 announcement by the Real Estate Board of New York about plans in the Spring to establish an internet portal for REBNY-member firm listings (A Giant…
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