Real estate questions I get asked at inopportune times

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How Much Money Do I Need Liquid to Buy a Coop? ^ don't mind me, just eating away my savings You know when there's a word that triggers a strange association with something completely unrelated and it's all you can think about? This is about 80% of the reason I laugh at inexcusably inappropriate times (the other 20% falls in some murky gray area) … [Read more...]

The Answer to the Question No One Wants to Ask

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How Clean is the NYC Subway? ^ only on the MTA could someone be carrying a peacock and no one would look up a No one wants to take responsibility for the fresh Hell that is the MTA. De Blasio and Cuomo keep volleying the burden without making progress, so how do we improve this lovely service that 5.7 million people use daily? I have some ideas. … [Read more...]

5 Ways to Mourn The Dog Days of Summer

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Last hurrah before asphyxiation by infinity scarf/nutmeg So we need to reassess this dog days of summer thing because I have not been basking in a canine's holy light of godliness. IDK about you, but dogs are really having their year as they've essentially become deities; if aliens invaded earth they would 100% think dogs were walking us. Because … [Read more...]

Sometimes you have to cross the line to know where it is.

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The Time I Saw George Washington's Dentures So I have a increasingly legitimate infatuation with the American Revolution; many thanks to Rick Lawton the Eternal American Patriot, it's snowballed and is getting out of control. So much so that when I heard Washington's original dentures were in special collections at the New York Academy of … [Read more...]