America’s current economic woes have finally reached that seasonal haunt of the idle/ self-idolized rich and famous: the Hamptons, where the ghosts of Jay Gatsby and his Daisy forever play. Despite the fact that hard times in that privileged land of devil-may-care displays would be as detectable as costume jewelry in a Tiffany’s show window, [...]
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A recent article in New York Magazine titled “Old New York” features nine nineteenth- century properties which tap into NYC’s real estate history…as well as into its current fashion-crazed, financial cavalierness. In the world of real estate, history comes at a price (a very dear price) and nostalgia is merely a selling point for those [...]
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An Atlantic Yards opponent (and there are many here in Brooklyn) hacked into a digital traffic sign and flashed his point of view to passing motorists. Instead of illuminated traffic warnings, an illuminated expletive directed to real estate tycoon Bruce Ratner appeared on the sign. “Fuck Ratner” read the short if not so sweet message. [...]
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In an effort to reimburse victims of the Prince of Thieves, the government has finally sold one of Bernie Madoff’s erstwhile properties here in New York City. His Manhattan penthouse (photo gallery), originally listed at a spine-tingling $9.9 million clams, then reduced to an equally hair-raising $8.9 million bucks, has ultimately sold for an undisclosed [...]
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Among the variety of life’s peculiar spices, there are certain spices I just love to hate with a delightful sense of passionate heartburn: the “Pink House” of Park Slope for example. Back in the 1960s, when a more colorful because more radical style pervaded the air (superficially, at least) a man by the name of [...]
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The chic and fanciful Fifth Avenue Disney Store that came into NYC during the sudden exuberance of the 1990s is now exiting chic and fanciful Fifth Avenue during its sudden despair. Disney delivered the depressing news to NY state officials earlier this week that it was closing its 30,000-square-foot World of Disney emporium and, as [...]
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In the event that you’re feeling that you aren’t living unless you’re living in New York City, here’s a bit of good news: real estate prices here are dropping. The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that the biggest drop is occurring in DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), Boerum Hill, and Downtown Brooklyn where the [...]
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In Manhattan, a Chelsea resident digs for groceries out of a dumpster rather than the local gourmet market while a SoHo resident is packing leftovers instead of doing lunch at Chili’s. In Park Slope, Brooklyn, a neighbor of mine has once again resorted to carrying mugger money (spare cash to keep a potential thief happy) [...]
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Gone are those happy vagabond times in New York City when the starving artist lifestyle was where it was at for those lost in search of themselves. In that idealistic utopia of body and soul, anyone who helped themselves but took too much risked ostracized despair. To starve was a badge of defiance and it [...]
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The delightfully boisterous and uniquely gravel-voiced Charlie Rangel, Democratic congressman and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has been a New York City fixture since first being elected to Congress in 1970. He’s been a constant and longtime advocate of the usual populist and minority causes which are almost guaranteed to win re-election [...]
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Browsing through the Brooklyn Paper, what a pleasant surprise it was to learn that CUNY (The City University of New York) has boldly ventured into the real estate business. (Now that’s education!!!) Together with developer Bruce Ratner, an ambiguous personage to further complement CUNY’s ambiguous plans, they’ve partnered to ambitiously build a residential tower in [...]
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Despite their social privileges, Homer and Langley never formed any friendships nor did they venture far from home; and despite their educational accomplishments, never sought employment. They created their own world of dreams and idle pretensions: Homer usually playing the piano while Langley busied himself with reading. When their father died, they lived off their [...]
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