Real Estate Questions I Get Asked at Inopportune Times

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When Is the Market Going to Tank? There's nothing like ending a long week with a lazy late-in-the-day martini and a conversation you force upon someone else about doomsday cults or the three hour deep dive you recently went on concerning the commercialization of Mount Everest. Against your best attempts to steer the discussion away from work … [Read more...]

Your Healthy Dose of New York History

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In Case Anyone Else Has Stopped to Think About How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built At UChicago, we had a handful of sardonic "mottos" that were plastered on the sweatshirts of students wherever you turned. Campus favorites were "Where fun goes to die", "Where the odds are good, but the goods are odd”, and “Where the squirrels are cuter than the … [Read more...]

Somewhere in New York I’m Going to Kick Myself for Telling People About Because Then It Will Become Impossible to Go To

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Barney Greengrass on the Upper West Side Diners are a magical blip in dietary reality where it becomes seemingly fine to eat things that 1) have been demonized by every diet known to man 2) you would never cook yourself, partially out of shame and partially out of (albeit fleeting) self-respect 3) your body can't handle like it once … [Read more...]

RealEstateSnacks

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Digestible Real Estate News 1. Think of New York rents like the temperatures ushered in by climate change: They may be hot now but they’re only likely to get hotter. Manhattan prices have hit a record high for seven straight months: the median rent reached $5,000 for the first time ever. Record demand has propelled those gains as … [Read more...]

This Month’s Google Deep Dive

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Five Facts I’ve Forced Upon Strangers at Bars Against Their Will This Month I firmly stand by that we were much more interesting when we were children. While our vocabulary was unsophisticated and attention span severely strained, on a daily basis we were flooded with a monstrous amount of information and spent our evenings pouring over … [Read more...]