For those readers desperate for real estate news, here's the only action reported today

16 Upland Street East, Pemberwick, $925,000. Not to exciting, but at least it was involved in a bidding war: listing price was $895,000. Westchester winner.

Riverside’s own Fran Ward was the listing agent, which shows real pluck and determination and devotion to the battle: there are some of us who rarely dare venture so far west into the wilderness, but Fran covers all of Greenwich: Byram to Old Greenwich, or, as her business cards once read (discontinued after Oct. 7) “From the River to the Sea!”.

(I made that last part up)