I knew him but never met himLong-time Manhattan Loft Guy readers will not be surprised to know that I am a big baseball fan*, given the number of occasional baseball-themed discursions over the years. I was going to write something…
Tag: Ny Times
same floor lofts sell at 46 Mercer Street, in same condition but at different prices
East meets West, West winsThe Residential Sales Around The Region feature in yesterday’s New York Times featured one Manhattan loft, 46 Mercer Street (also known as 473 Broadway, aka the Hohner Building), at $3.01mm after 17 weeks on the market.…
the (low) morals of the Real Estate Industrial Complex, politics division
the (non) Quote Of The DayIf there’s a word “antidote”, should there be a word “antiquote”? I feel as though we need that word today, in looking at this quote in last night’s piece, Espada, an ally of the real…
loft living or penology? Quote Of The Day
you can’t make this stuff upToday’s QOTD comes via the New York Times’ own Hunt Grunt, Joyce Cohen, and requires Manhattan Loft Guy readers to cross the river. Not far, but still …. In The Hunt feature in today’s real…
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
another celebrity who hates Tribeca
cognitive dissonance is in the eye of the beholderOK, OK, I don’t know that Mike Love of the Beach Boys really hates Tribeca, but this is supposed to be a Manhattan loft blog, so I need a hook. I do…
Times article disconnect / why developers should build schools UPDATED
is it about the links?Yesterday’s NY Times article by Christine Haughney in The Appraisal feature, Parents’ Real Estate Strategy: Schools Come First, got a lot of attention in the blogosphere, and probably in the real world, also (of course, the…
Tagged with: Haughney, New Development, Ny Times, Ps 199, Ps 234, Ps 87, Public School, Rushmore, Tribeca
the very first Second Quarter Manhattan real estate market report numbers out
ahead of The Times, with what, exactly?As we are counting down to the last days of the Second Quarter, the number crunchers at Miller Samuel, Terra, Corcoran and elsewhere are in their counting houses, counting up their sales. Traditionally, the…
Tagged with: 2009, Ny Times, Quarterly Report, Second Quarter, Transactions, Volume, Wall Street, Wsj
sale at 97 Crosby Street is a Big Deal for NY Times (for wrong reason)
Old Grey Lady shoots for hip, missesDid anyone else find this piece in the Big Deal feature of Sunday’s real estate section of the NY Times weird? In Rachel Comey Buys SoHo Loft, reporter Liz Harris emphasizes her lack of…
that staggeringly beautiful 5 Beekman Street
late to bandwagon, but in the paradeWhat the heck … I figure there is probably a 3% chance that any Manhattan Loft Guy reader has not already seen the Nick Carr photos of the City Hall neighbor 5 Beekman Street,…
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