2 things dear to my heartI missed this piece in yesterday’s NY Times (h/t The Real Deal): Lower East Side Has Less to Offer Jesuits Who Teach the Poor. Manhattan Loft Guy is Jesuit educated, I am in close contact…
Tag: Tribeca
Jesuits adapt to Lower East Side gentrification by moving; will lofts follow?
Tagged with: Bronx, Forsyth, Gentrification, Jesuits, Lower East Side, Mott Haven, School, Soho, Tribeca
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
food deals in Tribeca
oh joyful and happy hour!Manhattan Loft Guy has to get out (on the web) more, especially with finds like this. I can’t even remember where I started, but clicking from one ‘interesting’ post, to another ‘interesting’ blog, to another ‘interesting’…
Quote For The Day, 2000 edition
the goodsBefore I tell you how I found it, here’s a long-time Tribeca resident talking about the change in Tribeca’s population in the 20 years they lived there, way back in 2000: You’ve never seen so many people under three…
Tagged with: Change, Curbed, Downtown Express, Duane, Ny Times, Park, Population, Store, Tribeca, Trucks
revisiting Trouble in Tribeca, while stopping in Soho
a promise, kept (rare!)When I hit the Manhattan loft #3S at 155 Franklin Street (the Sugar Loaf) as a June 2009 sale 16% off the 2006 clearing price (August 5, 155 Franklin Street crashes past 2006 to close up 28%…
set price off low comp or high comp? too pushy (or not) in Tribeca gets neighborly
comping is hardFascinating new listing for a Tribeca loft in a fairly recent high-end Manhattan loft conversion. They are asking above $1,250/ft for space that sold in the conversion at around $850/ft, probably with many of the same proper proper…
drip, drip, drip in Tribeca / the sound of price dropping (bird NOT chirping?)
was too pushy, for sure There was a time when some Manhattan lofts were sold as white boxes — minimal finishing to qualify for a Certificate of Occupancy, but no interior walls, probably only one bath, and (often) a…
too pushy…?? thread Vol 3 / Tribeca build-out
reaching for a dream? Am I getting carried away with this thread? Perhaps, but yet another candidate for the Goldilocks question came to market recently, raising the question of whether the seller is being too pushy about price in…
2 new Tribeca lofts too pushy or just pushy enough??
anonymous lofts I normally don’t comment on new listings (you know why: end of an era for Manhattan Loft Guy / a new day dawns? from April 9) but I sometimes do so obscurely. I hope this is opaque…
loft = designer clothes / the award for most interesting description of loft living goes to
… the eco-conscious Tribeca mom with the guilty conscience (and the Prius) One nugget from Sunday’s ‘Habitats’ section of the NY Times Real Estate section. The mom with the automobile commute to the Upper East Side with the…
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