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so a man walks into a restaurant with his kidney, and their spouses … ? Happy 2nd Kidneversary!

two years ago todayWent out to dinner at a nice Greek restaurant in Astoria last night, with my wife (of course) and my left kidney and her husband. Huh? Long-time readers of Manhattan Loft Guy know that “my left kidney”

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mystery loft sale at 39 Crosby Street leads to burning silk hats + pianos

serendipitous unsuccessful searchTomorrow’s news today! The New York Times Sunday real estate feature, Residential Sales Around the Region, has a mysterious loft sale that caught my eye even though it is a little out of my usual price range (the

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(Part 2) riffing with Toy + NY Times about higher prices “sprinkled” through Manhattan, including in the loft market

  [having discovered that my draft post was WAY too long for this platform, the end of my Part 1 post follows, with the last paragraph repeated…] … With this building sales history as context, the exemplar July 2011 sale

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riffing with Toy + NY Times about higher prices “sprinkled” through Manhattan, including in the loft market (Part 1)

a different approach to outliersI daresay that the Sunday real estate section lead article in yesterday’s New York Times by Vivian Toy, In New York, a Sprinkling of Higher Prices, will get a lot of play on the inter tubes.

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Soho in 1983: $211,000 for 3,300 sq ft; still an artist's loft

nice bit in the Times todayManhattan Loft Guy bait in the Habitats feature by Constance Rosenblum on the front page of today’s New York Times real estate section, with a back-in-the-day piece that touches on both Tribeca in the 1970s

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542 LaGuardia Place sale from February is news to New York Times readers

putting the lame in the LSMWe’ve been here before: I still assume there are people who still spend some quality weekend time poring over the Sunday New York Times real estate feature Residential Sales Around The Region to see what’s

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is publicity hurting 95 Greene Street resales?

[UPDATE – I changed the title and first sub-head just after posting, when I realized my main point was a different one … the perils of blogging!] [a substantive update from June 27 below] even as #4A closes up 13%

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weekend diversion / feel-good edition

a painless way for you to do good might involve some pain for your familyI put aside this article from the May 17 New York Times, One Death Provides New Life For Many, for a sunny day diversion. Isn’t it

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a sacred secular day of memory

we cannot remember what we do not knowWe all have individual family, friends and others to remember today, which is good. Good, too, is a lesson about how this holiday came to be, some of which was familiar to me

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ever so rare before and after shots of 39 Worth Street loft

that (almost) never happens (hooray!)Long-time Manhattan Loft Guy readers may have noted the pregnant parenthetical that closed my post on April 15, 66 Crosby Street loft sells for $868/ft as a very tall project, wishing that we (well, I) could

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