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...]

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...]

5 Beekman Street, Apt 37A Rapid fire answers for your probable questions: yes, I own the dresses; no, I'm not giving away where they're from; no, my apartment isn't big enough to store them properly so yes, it's quickly turning into the wardrobe closet for RuPaul's Drag Race; no, I haven't been invited to the MET gala yet which yes, I'm … [Read more...]

So How in God's Name Does One Land an Apartment? Things from the past that have stirred up a sweepingly competitive consumer frenzy and are downright humiliating in hindsight: Tickle Me Elmo: the 1996 psychotic mania that caused human stampedes and civilian brawls in Walmarts across the United States and also gave birth to a Toys"R"Us black … [Read more...]

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