Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
17 Hendrie Drive, Old Greenwich, was on the market for most of 2018-2019, priced at $4.420 million and, eventually, $3.995. No soap. Jump to this year, when it was listed at $3.995, and has now sold for $4.420.
Mind you, it sold for $4.250 in 2010, so there’s not a huge difference, looked at over eleven years, but the leap from 2019’s market to today’s is impressive.
(high tide)
Investors in Fleisher’s butcher shop in Cos Cob asked them to remove the BLM and Gay Pride signage, and the staff walked.
The last time the Red Guard was unleashed to rid the country of the “Four Olds” : Old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas, it cost somewhere between 23-30 million lives. Let’s hope this cycle goes better.
“We’re all looking forward to it”, Sacheen Littlefeather, nee Helen Berkowitz, told FWIW. “I mean, it takes a fuck of a long time to recite ‘In this house, we believe black lives matter, women’s rights are human rights, no human is illegal, science is real, love is love, kindness is everything’, when you’re just greeting your goddamn Kombucha delivery boy. Now we can go back to the one mask that binds us all: anti-Trump, pro-abortion, pro-gun confiscation, you name it, it’s all there behind that little face diaper. Cool, huh?”
61 Summit Road, Riverside, new construction priced at $2.995 and probably going for more, is reported as pending.
The railroad tracks this property backs up to are down below grade in the rock-cut, so noise is mitigated, to an extent.
Which I believe is the real estate version of “for a fat girl, she doesn’t sweat all that much”.
434 Riversville Road, $8.9 million.
Reading an article in yesterday’s NY Post about a woman summering on a yacht off the Hamptons who is paying a $300 daily retainer to keep a manicurist on call (at $600 per), I was reminded, again, that there’s a certain wealth level where cost really doesn’t matter: you want what you want, period, and the price is irrelevant. Overpaying by $3 million for what’s probably a fifth house? Who cares?
It’s the retail equivalent of government spending.
28 Hidden Brook, Riverside, asking $2.195 million, reports a contract. It was listed June 23rd for $2.545, but it must have met market resistance, and listing agent Jackie Chamandy, nobody’s fool, quickly dropped it to this price on July 9th, and got the job done.
24 Thunder Mountain Road, newish construction, has sold for $6.7 million, down from its July, 2020 opening price of $7.495, but still a good price for the sellers, I suspect; they paid $1.2 for the land some years back, so there should have been some substantial room for price negotiations.
CDC is bringing back admittedly useless paper masks. They literally want entire families to wear masks in their own homes. Who’s behind this, and why?
Similar to that lying doctor whose Facebook post about treating (non-existent) young, unvaccinated COVID patients went viral before being exposed as an utter falsehood, we’re now being swamped with a Twitter storm with more fake news. Where’s the White House on this? I’d guess the answer is “behind it”.
If the words of that “doctor” who “just left the ER” and has a message about getting “crushed” by the new COVID Delta variant looks familiar, it’s because you probably have seen it before.
It’s an apparent astroturfed message campaign to scare people into getting a COVID vaccine.
It’s unclear who is behind the effort, but what is clear is they have many people and perhaps even bots willing and able to cut and paste the message to issue the fearful message because we’re “getting crushed” by the COVID Delta variant, don’t you know?
Our colleagues at Twitchy report that a similar effort started on Facebook.
Where are the Cheeto-eaters in charge of fact-checking over there? They’re so much better than we are, aren’t they? They’ll let you know as soon as they can find daylight from under Dr. Fauci’s white coat.
Many people, even people who aren’t doctors or nurses but who appear to be pushing COVID fear-porn for political advantage on social media, are sending the message that they “just left the ER” and – oh my God everyone’s dying and they wish they’d gotten vaccinated – and, and …
And they just got busted.
The great COVID fear porn narrative was outed on Twitter beginning on Sunday night with a tweet showing that many people were using the exact same message.
Fortunately, their kids are back home, safe in Chestnut Hill
Joanne Jacobs: Keeping Chinatown kids down
“Hard-working, high-achieving students from Asian immigrant families will have a harder time getting into Boston’s exam schools under a new plan that’s supposed to help disadvantaged students, writes Fordham’s Brandon Wright.
The old process gave equal weigh to grades and entrance exam scores. Now grades count for 70 percent and scores 30 percent, and applicants are sorted by census tracts, which are grouped into eight tiers.
“It’s likely to significantly reduce the number of seats that go to low-income Asian American students,” Wright predicts.”
Take, for example, the city’s Chinatown. . . . Its median household income is less than $41,000—well below the Boston median, and less than half that of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods, like Back Bay and Beacon Hill.
. . . according to the Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence, the neighborhood’s representation in the exams schools may be cut in halfunder the new plan.
“Boston, New York City and other communities have neighborhoods with low-income, high-scoring Asian immigrant students whose existence is ignored by “equity” advocates, he writes.
The Boston Globe writes: “For decades, white and Asian students have been admitted to the highly sought after schools at disproportionately higher rates than their Black and Latino peers, and civil rights advocates have long argued that families with means often game the system by using private tutors and admission consultants.”
“The families of Chinatown don’t have “means,” Wright writes. Their kids study harder.”
American flag? Check. Cheap plastic raincoats? Check. No Canda Goose parkas? They’re outta here.
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