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…
Tag: History
more on that $100,000 view in small loft at 150 Nassau Street, with a Landmarks bonus
Tagged with: 19th Century, Beekman, City Hall, Currier Ives, History, Landmarks, Nassau, Skyscrapers, Spruce, Views
Manhattan as sublime +/or a stockyard / the Quote Of The Day
so much to read, so little timeToday’s QOTD comes from Lapham’s Quarterly / a magazine of history and ideas (h/t Andrew Sullivan), into which I have barely dipped a toe. His October 3 Preamble includes this insight (one small part…
back into the Soho time machine, to Spring Street lofts circa 1972
The History Channel, againWe seem to be in the history cycle on Manhattan Loft Guy, and there is no telling when it will end. Today’s installment wanders back to 1972 Soho, when a few pioneers got together to buy a…
the Lower West Side before “Tribeca”
great site, great pixIf you have not been to Kevin Walsh’s website Forgotten New York, you owe it to yourself to click around there. I came across it (again) in the course of trolling the inter-tubes for some depth and…
Tagged with: Bicentennial, Forgotten New York, History, Lamp Post, Lower West Side, Rector, West Side Highway, World Trade Center
no skyscrapers in Manhattan loft neighborhoods, but why not?
[UPDATE 1.18.12: this topic is ‘news’ again because the Working Paper I talk about below has just been published in an academic journal, which got some press through the New York Observer, Uncanny Valley: The Real Reason There Are No…
Tagged with: Bedrock, Construction, Downtown, Factories, Financial District, History, Jackson, Skyscraper, Tenement, Yglesias
tales of Olde Tribeca, circa 2010
vintage, authentic, classic, etcWe spent a lovely evening a while back in a friend’s Tribeca loft, with an experience that was like going back to the days when only a few people had any idea what (or where) the TRIangle…
another birthday but no sales today
readers of a certain age, unite!Recalling that last weekend’s extravaganza of furniture, auto and General Miscellaneous sales was premised on the birthday observances of Presidents, today is the actual birthday of an actual president. Not just any President, of course,…
pretty efficient (depressed) market at 505 Greenwich Street as both 6F and 7F sell, off 25%
compare and contrast, upstairs and down, now and thenHere’s another take on the theme of my neighborly competition thread (more links below): two all-but-identical Manhattan lofts at 505 Greenwich Street had overlapping marketing histories, prices and success, suggesting that even…
55 White Street #4C closed, finally, around $1,000/ft
those price drops can work pretty well…The Manhattan loft at 55 White Street #4C just closed for $2.045mm (updated in our system November 6, deed filed October 28, but no clearing price available until now). The recent listing history is…
tales of Olde Tribeca / 1980s nastiness at 151 Hudson Street
ACRIS is a wonderful thingIn the course of checking past sales and city records for an earlier lsiting at 151 Hudson Street, I clicked on a fascinating document in the city records that is rich with TriBeCa history. (Those of…
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