tangled webs woven by Manhattan Media wing of the Real Estate Industrial Complex I’d like to think I’m more a skeptic than a cynic, as I habitually click through background data to better understand newspaper (or other) stories about real…
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weird fluff piece: “flip queen” may have actually lost money for mother-in-law
Tagged with: Bushwick, Closing Costs, Flipping, Jonathan Miller, Light, Ny Post, Outdoor Space, Renovation, Roof Deck, Views
time travel? a first person account of Early Loft Days in New York
parallels between 1970s Soho and 2010 BushwickThere is a fascinating first person account of someone who looks forward (kinda, sorta, perhaps) to being under the new loft law on a Brooklyn blog that Brownstoner linked to yesterday. In broad outline,…
can a “loft” in Manhattan change your way of thinking?
or, just provoke a gentrification rant?I missed this last Thursday (I was on vacation), but there is a fascinating web-only New York Times piece in the Living Rooms section of the Opinionator blog, Our Buildings, Ourselves by Elizabeth Hawes. It…
Tagged with: Bushwick, Change, Gentrification, Loft Law, Ny Times, Soho, Tribeca, Williamsburg, Yuppie
loft law extension / what's the big deal? UPDATED w maps
passed!Of course I have been following the reports over the last week about the "extension" bill just passed (and to-be-immediately-amended) New York State Loft Law. But it has been very difficult to understand what is has really been at stake…
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