though the focus recently is on Brooklyn A perennial never-get-to on my Don’t Do list is a thought piece on how neighborhoods change, including my personal history as a residential pioneer in the then newly-minted Tribeca (truly TriBeCa in…
Tag: Williamsburg
diversion about real estate (any discussion of Gentrification is tangentially about Manhattan loft neighborhoods)
Tagged with: Brooklyn, Change, Diversion, Gentrification, History, New York Observer, Tribeca, Utne, Williamsburg
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
loft law extension / what's the big deal? UPDATED w maps
passed!Of course I have been following the reports over the last week about the "extension" bill just passed (and to-be-immediately-amended) New York State Loft Law. But it has been very difficult to understand what is has really been at stake…
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