Monthly Archives: July 2009
Dawn Harbor contracts?
Reader RR has heard that both Dawn Harbor properties currently for sale, land and house, have gone to contract and wonders if that’s so. I have seen nothing reported yet but I believe they have – there may be some … Continue reading
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This should be interesting to watch
105 Rockwood Lane, a 1954 colonial on two acres, has just been listed for $3.2 million. That price surprised me – I’d have thought two acres here would be worth about $2 million – but when I checked the records … Continue reading
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Husted Lane sale
This was a nice old (1935) house renovated in 1997 and listed for sale in May of last year for $5.250. Sold today for $3.9 million which is respectable and evidence that there are indeed buyers out there. Over an … Continue reading
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Did Patriot Bank find a last-minute savior?
That’s the rumor I’m hearing – someone has been persuaded to inject $55 million into the operation. That would pretty much turn control of the bank over to him, I’d assume. If the rumor’s true, the bank’s still left with … Continue reading
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A Greenwich tale, imported from England
Shopaholic dies under weight of purchases.
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Obama: “It’s Bush’s fault!”
I sympathise with the man, but he’s got to recognize that the American public’s collective memory has a half-life of 12 days (do you even remember what costume Michael Jackson was buried in, for instance?). Right now, many Obama supporters … Continue reading
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It’s baaack!
This is a decent house on a desirable street but like everything else in its price range, it’s having trouble selling. The owners paid $5.125 million for it in 2004, added a pool, stonewalls, landscaping and did a ton of … Continue reading
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Bernie Madoff gives first interview
It’s his first because no one wants to visit him. But this lawyer who’s suing the Madoff clan did, and Bernie opened up. Here’s a big d’oh: Bernie says he got away with it because the SEC was so dumb. You … Continue reading
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Group think and global warming hype
Long article here. Here’s an excerpt: The consensus of climatologists about “global warming” certainly seems a ripe candidate for error-prone conformism. It’s not really possible to become a climatologist if you are a global warming skeptic, which means the consensus … Continue reading
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Calling out-of-town brokers
21 Perna Lane, a nice enough house, was originally priced at $1.098 million in September, 2006 and sold in May the next year for $930,000. Now it’s back, unchanged, at $1.150 million and I wonder why? I have seen no … Continue reading
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Dialstone South
49 Willow Road The angry builder who ran me off his spec project on Dialstone Lane last week for predicting that he’d price his house at $3.4 and eventually sell it for $2.6 was particularly galled that I’d written that … Continue reading
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The quality of teaching in our schools
I am berated by at least one reader for knowing nothing about education. Well I have my experience to draw on, so perhaps I know something. Looking back over my own public education here in Greenwich at a time the … Continue reading
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Democrat party bosses whupped last night
Congressman Jim Himes got his way and his Gilliam Lane supporter will be placed on the ballot for School Board, thus providing an actual choice in these fixed “elections” for the first time in this writer’s memory. In fact, it … Continue reading
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Here’s why every modern person needs a law degree
Landlord sues tenant for twittering nasty things about her apartment. Sun-Times: Jeffrey Michael, whose family has run Horizon for more than 25 years, said: “The statements are obviously false, and it’s our intention to prove that.” He said that while … Continue reading
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Why don’t we try this with Congress?
NYC buys homeless one-way tickets out. Write when you find work!
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Obama going to the Vineyard
You know what? Good for him. I’ve already heard grumblings that his choice of the island will set him off from the common man, whoever the heck that is, but I’ve loved the Vineyard since three friends and I rode … Continue reading
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Obama 2004: The Patriot Act was bad because it got rammed through by Bush without time to read and debate it
Transcript and broadcast here. Of course, it was bad when that Debbil’ Bush was running things because he was, you know, really evil. With the Messiah running things it’s all good so we can relax and go along. To disagree is … Continue reading
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No more guinea pigs on a stick in Cos Cob
Fondle My Paloma, Cos Cob’s mysteriously popular approximation of a Mexican restaurant, is listed for sale today on the Greenwich MLS (a strange listing forum, but never mind). Asking price is $3.195 to which I say, this is not Belle … Continue reading
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Belle Haven open house report
So I went off to see 67 Harbor Drive in Belle Haven today and I thought it was terrific. As I mentioned yesterday, this is a 1936 house, last attended to in 1988, on 1.89 acres overlooking the Sound. A … Continue reading
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If you lift your cheeks, I will tax your seat
Congress: impose a 10% tariff on cosmetic surgery to pay for Obama Care. The procedures are already non-deductile so tummy-tuckers are paying with after tax dollars to begin with. Now they’ll be taxed again? Leona must be spinning in her grave.
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