Tag: Ny Times

Quote of the Day, Olympics edition

  Today’s NY Times: U.S. Hockey Team Starts to Believe Again.I don’t know Jeff Klein and have not previously noted his by-line, but my hat is off to him today for a decsription of a bad tacticl choice by the

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celebrity sale at 43 West 13 Street, with history

why I need the NY Times and Curbed.comYesterday’s NY Times ran a piece about a 2 BR loft in Greenwich Village that took only two weeks to find a contract at the full asking price ($2.5mm, in 19 days, but

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NY Times “recent” residential sales? not so much (at 252 Seventh Avenue)

standards at Old Grey Lady go all to hellYou’d think that the regular Sunday real estate feature in the New York Times, Residential Sales Around the Region, would be … you know … "recent", as the sub-head always is: "a

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for rejected coop buyer: screwed? yes; recourse? not so much

Manhattan real estate is not a benevolent universeI referred a week ago (Jan 20, adventures in nephrology / about that kidney donation….) to a long phone conversation with a long-time Manhattan Loft Guy reader as something "for another post". Here’s

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more Manhattan lofts sold, but very, very slowly

like the overall Manhattan market, mostlyFollowing up on my post yesterday about the New York Times article about the Big Three market Manhattan real estate reports for the fourth quarter, here’s a nugget about the loft market from the Miller

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the reports are coming, the reports are coming!!

company choreographyToday’s NY Times has a preview of the major firms’ Manhattan real estate market reports for the fourth quarter of 2009, which are to be released today. The dance is that the numbers were delivered to the press a

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(bad) quote of the day / lawyer stumbles in NYT real estate Q&A

was the nuance edited out?The Sunday Real Estate section of the New York Times regular feature by Jay Romano, Real Estate Q&A last week posed a complex question and provided an overly simple answer from a lawyer who represents the

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the numbers are coming! the numbers are coming! 1Q market report season begins

links + teaseThe headline of the Josh Barbanel  piece in this morning’s New York Times pretty much says it all about the major firms’ First Quarter Manhattan residential real estate market reports: Apartments Sell for Less if They Are Sold

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gutting Broome Street for $160/ft

bringing light but hiding windows?Yesterday’s New York Times On Location Home & Garden feature Bringing Light to a New York Loft profiled a Broome Street total renovation ("gutted to its floor joists and beams and totally rebuilt — with plumbing,

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50 Walker Street closes well off August ask after being publicly negotiable + serving bourbon

not like yesterdayThe full history of the Manhattan loft #6A at 50 Walker Street will reveal just how different this marketing campaign was from the loft addressed yesterday (why be that negotiable in secret? 25 Ann Street closed nearly 25%

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