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Monthly Archives: May 2008
(Photo from Wikipedia) I borrowed the title of my post today from Lawrence Ferlinghetti. I always thought that was a great title for a book. I grew up mostly in the West, and I thought Coney Island must be amazingly liberating for a hip San Fransisco poet to use it as his main metaphor for life. When I moved permanently…
I haven\’t been inspired lately to add to this blog. Things have been quiet on the rental front, until I saw this eye-catching graph in the New York Observer: And here\’s more not so good news from the article by Tom Acitelli: It’s on again: the spring hunt for Manhattan apartments, and, according to the numbers, this season should be…
You know how your epidermis theoretically replaces itself every 7 years? Well, I think Manhattan replaces itself every 20 years. First the Market Diner is being renovated into something fancy with no parking lot, then Danceteria closed to turn into luxury condos, and now Florent is closing. What\’s next? Pyramid? The 80s are disappearing right before my eyes. (Great evocative…
This is not an aerial photo of New York. It\’s the largest architectural model in the world. It was built at a scale of 1 inch to 100 feet and has every building in the City of New York. It was built for the 1964 World\’s Fair held in Flushing Meadow, and is now on display at the Queens Museum…
We in the Listings Dept at RDNY.com always ask for clarification when someone tells us an apartment has been \”renovated.\” We think it\’s an over-used term but we have to take the landlord\’s word if he/she tells us they renovated a unit. I think we should ask when the unit was last painted because landlords aren\’t required by law to…
Sarah Jessica Parker, of Sex and the City, is on the cover of New York magazine this week. (Great photo by Andrew Eccles.) It\’s an interesting article, and Ms. Parker points out the same thing that I thought was the least believable part of the series: those women had entirely too much time to hang with each other. I don\’t…