One Year Ago Today on Manhattan Loft Guy You were warned in my July 4 post that you’ve got a couple of weeks of archived Manhattan Loft Guy material coming up. In my July 6, 2012, watching Tribeca grow…
Tag: Change
diversion about real estate (any discussion of Gentrification is tangentially about Manhattan loft neighborhoods)
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…
Tagged with: Brooklyn, Change, Diversion, Gentrification, History, New York Observer, Tribeca, Utne, Williamsburg
OYAToMLG downtown artist loses views of her muse, is sad but not angry
grace, personified A quick (last!) one from New Orleans, kinda sorta like a diversion, but certainly Manhattan real estate related. One Year Ago Today on Manhattan Loft Guy I posted about an artist featured in a New York Times…
indispensable source tracks commercial upgrades on Murray Street
ch … ch … ch … changes (slowly, perhaps surely)The go-to guy for hyper-local street level news in Tribeca, the intrepid Tribeca Citizen, this week has hit a few instances of the changing storefronts on Murray Street in southeast Tribeca.…
watching Tribeca grow up: another loft neighborhood pioneer profiled
lovely piece from a great resourceI’ve been meaning to write about The Broadsheet Daily, which I never look for in hard copy (published bi-weekly and available in residential building lobbies in Battery Park City and elsewhere in lower Manhattan) because…
Tagged with: 1980s, Battery Park City, Broadsheet Daily, Change, History, Memory Lane, Pediatrics, Pioneer
bromancing the restaurateur: an homage to Danny Meyer
if not The Man Who Made (modern) Madison Square, at least The Man Who PushedI’ve been sitting on a “Living Around” feature about Madison Square and environs from the Sunday New York Times Real Estate section nearly two months, A…
NY Post goes into the way back machine: Flower District in 1979
fur on the walls, gardenias in the airWonderful piece in today’s New York Post real estate section about an artist / mystery writer and wife who moved into a Flower District loft in 1979 that had last been a furrier’s…
Tagged with: 1979, Change, Flower District, Gentrification, Groff Studios, History, Longandnarrow, Ny Post, Pioneer, West 28
Wall Street Journal flogs north Tribeca for no apparent reason
too much time on their hands?Believe me, I get that one purpose of the media wing of the Manhattan Real Estate Industrial Complex is to create ‘news’ about little neighborhoods, in part to follow a narrative of up-and-coming. This Wall…
Tagged with: Beach, Change, Hubert, Laight, New Developments, North West Tribeca, River Lofts, Sugar Warehouse, Wall Street Journal, Washington
107 West 25 Street loft sells at $956/ft as old Flower District morphs into Chelsea
changing of the guardTwo things jumped out at me about the sale of the Manhattan loft #6D at 107 West 25 Street at $1.1mm on October 17: the first is how the geographic descriptions in the broker babble omit the…
Tagged with: Change, Flower District, Garment District, Light, Ny Observer, Ny Times, Sewing, Starter Loft, Turnover, West 25
nothing stays the same, a/k/a the gentrification issue in Chelsea + Lower East Side
car repair shop editionOh the serendipity of juxtaposition! If you looked at The Real Deal this morning (which is still in full spasm mode over the 100th edition celebrations) you’d have seen two items just 5 posts apart dealing with…
Tagged with: Auto Repair, Canute, Change, Delancey Pitt, Gentrification, Lodown, Ny Post, The Real Deal, West 29
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