the good news: loft #6A overcame an awkward footprint to sell over ask The sale a month ago of the “2,100 sq ft” Manhattan loft #6A at 40 West 15 Street is a fascinating window on a variety of topics,…
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Manhattan Loft Lab at 40 West 15 Street features building record, failed marketing, opposite styles, + more!
Tagged with: 2008, 2009, Ceilings, Comps, Empire State Building, Floor Plan, Kitchen, Kitchens, Light, Loft Style, Neighbors, Renovation, The Peak, The Thaw, Views, World Trade Center
Cobblestone Lofts seller surprised, disappointed that market at 28 Laight Street is so rational
… while fact-based outsiders smile The folks who just sold the “3,216 sq ft” Manhattan loft #3A at 28 Laight Street (Cobblestone Lofts) in the spillway of the Holland Tunnel in northernmost Tribeca thought a year ago they were selling…
Tagged with: Brick, Classic, Cobbelstone Lofts, Comps, Fireplace, Floor Plan, Laight, Layout, Light, Neighborly Competition, Neighbors, Rational, View, World Trade Center
nice flip at 73 Worth Street, but why is a foundation doing that??
there’s a wrong way to flip, and there’s this way After picking on a guy with so much money that he didn’t really care if his aborted flip burned a barrel of cash or not (in my February 26, 155 Franklin…
Tagged with: Comps, Flip, Floor, foundation, Kitchen, Neighbor, Noise, Renovation, Sound, streeteasy index, View, World Trade Center, Worth
this day comes again, mournfully as always
why does it always catch me by surprise (and by the throat)? Turns out that I am a broken record. In thinking about posting today I was going to start something like “As recently as this past weekend, I…
Tagged with: Memorial, Names, National Catholic Reporter, September 11, Tribute In Light, World Trade Center
still, a sad day, remarkably so
so just a bunch of linksNice and short piece (especially nice, for being so short) in The Broadsheet Daily yesterday, heading a list of events that memorialize September 11, 2001. I hope he won’t mind me quoting the paragraph, in…
130 Fulton Street loft with incomparable light comps out 3% above 2006 after 13 months of a boring price
stubborn is as stubborn doesThe last time I hit the near-Gehry Manhattan loft building 130 Fulton Street, I talked about a stubborn seller (in my August 11, 2011, stubborn seller of 130 Fulton Street loft takes 10% haircut). That July…
I cannot deal with the media orgy today
not sure why, after ten yearsAs of about a week ago, I thought this year would be different. That I would be able to read stories and look at video and images from ten years ago, and even to (finally)…
Tagged with: Firefighters, Media, Ny Times, Pennsylvania, Pentagon, September 11, World Trade Center
the Lower West Side before “Tribeca”
great site, great pixIf you have not been to Kevin Walsh’s website Forgotten New York, you owe it to yourself to click around there. I came across it (again) in the course of trolling the inter-tubes for some depth and…
Tagged with: Bicentennial, Forgotten New York, History, Lamp Post, Lower West Side, Rector, West Side Highway, World Trade Center
8 years, still fresh
quote of the dayRudy Giuliani, whom I loathe, read this morning from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whom I revere. Let’s just say that Rudy made a nice choice: “Everybody can be great,” he said, “because anybody can…
September 11, again
I will re-post what I said on this date two years ago, slightly updated: It turns out that I am most definitely not able to post much of anything today, and still unable to read (let alone watch) what…
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