What’s Rick Lawton Been up to?

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Making Sense of Why I Felt the Need to Purchase 90% of the Things in My Apartment Like water to oil, there is nothing more immiscible to dads than impractical purchases. It's both the hill they refuse to get down from and their fatal kryptonite. Pitching the necessity of a designer handbag to a man who can fit his entire life into a pocket is … [Read more...]

Turning My Listings Into a One Woman Met Gala

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159 West 53rd Street, Apt 31F in the Theater District Because it took every inch of self-restraint and self-awareness to not dress as member of the ensemble from the hit Broadway musical “Cats”, peep my listing at 159 West 53rd Street in the Theater District - a darling one bedroom perched on a high floor for some killer river and … [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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Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle Hotel As many in the world dive into Dry January, the time of the year when other's deafeningly silent egotistical health kicks cast a crescendo of shame over your martini habit, plunge friendships into turmoil as the fundamental cornerstone is removed, and pour gasoline over the already-smoldering post-holiday … [Read more...]

Real Estate Questions I Get Asked at Inopportune Times

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Omg You Must Be So Worried About the Real Estate Market...are you? Sometimes being a tax-paying, law-abiding citizen in the United States makes you feel like you're Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka's factory. You have zero control of the situation or path you're on yet you're allegedly a responsible participant. There's one person calling the shots … [Read more...]

Your Healthy Dose of New York History

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The Absolute Lawlessness of the 1800s in NYC My friends, dates, clients, people who find themselves this deep into my newsletter, laser hair removal technicians, really anyone who has spent more than 5 minutes with me knows that I have a passion for American History. I could handle this normally, digesting it quietly then going about my … [Read more...]