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…
Tag: History
OYAToMLG / 31 West 21 Street movie loft edition (Hollywood also loves Manhattan lofts!)
Tagged with: Charlie Sheen, History, Hollywood, Movies, Oyatomlg, Penthouse, Shia Labeouf, Wall Street, West 21
OYAToMLG / two million dollar Manhattan loft views edition
One Year Ago Today on Manhattan Loft Guy, more views, much moneyAbout a Madison Square view that really really really seems to have been provably worth a great deal of money: a $2 million view on Madison Square? comping at…
Manhattan loft porn at 16 Jay Street / you know you want it
Apartment Therapy was my enabler, this timeI put the link about a beautifully done loft at 16 Jay Street (below) aside when it was featured on the Curbed March 9 Linkage (in good company!), intending to drool publicly about it…
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
OYAToMLG / people under 3 feet high + Tribeca history edition
One Year Ago Today on Manhattan Loft Guy (an occasional series)My post a year ago today was about the template of news articles that get recycled every few years, “the population of Tribeca has grown xx% since YY…”: Quote For…
what is the opposite of Soho?
this post is not about Soho (much), though it does involve Soho artistsAfter playing in the Soho artist-in-residence/real estate sandbox yesterday and again on Saturday, Manhattan Loft Guy takes a break to hit a town in Texas that might just…
Greene Street block as a lab for … global economic development??
yupI don’t want to leave the impression that I regularly peruse economics blogs about global development issues, but I did come across this February 22 small blog post by an econ prof with NYU’s Development Research Institute that focused on…
#1 is 279 today (well, would be)
happy birthday, Dad!George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 (d. Dec 14, 1799). Unless you are over-tired from commemorating Presidents yesterday, take a second to consider The First on his birthday. Many thanks, old man. © Sandy Mattingly 2011…
345 West 13 Street loft sale shows neighborhood change from 1999
you said meatpacking district, they say MePaWhen the Manhattan loft #5E at 345 West 13 Street closed on January 20 at $4.95mm it not only just squeezed in under the (arbitrary) $5mm upper limit I set when I started the…
Tagged with: 1999, Boutiques, Gansevoort, Gottlieb, History, Hotel, Meatpacking, Restaurants, Village Voice, West 13
revisiting Manhattan lofts memory lane: MLG on January 3, 2008 + 151 Hudson Street from 27 years ago + a modern update
serendipity is a wonderful thingI no longer recall what I was searching for in the Manhattan Loft Guy archives last week (or whether I even found it!), but I did come across this nugget from January 3, 2008, tales of…
Tagged with: 1980s, Harassment, History, Holland Tunnel, Hudson, Loft Board, New Development, Primitive
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