Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
230 Rogues Hill Road has dropped to $4.950 million today, but I can't imagine why.
It sold for $4.1 in 2006 (in a bidding war, no less, though admittedly, it had started at $5.450 before eventually dropping to $3.995) and since then they've loaded up on citrus, so what gives?
You've got your orange giraffes
And the rug
And the cushions (with the cow)
And the shed
Pink: the new orange
Jr. League President Debra McLaughlin rides to protect the privacy of her backyard swimming pool (Photo credit: Leslie Yager, Greenwich Free Press)
UPDATE: I've edited the lede to reflect the change of date of the P&Z hearing.
Dear Friends,
We would like to thank everyone for your continued support. Our new meeting date is October, 17th, this will not change. We are hoping you will be able to attend; we are trying to gather as much support as possible. We are still working with the town to come up with an acceptable solution that would allow us to continue to operate a successful business and also protects our right to farm. The new code will be voted on by the P & Z Commission at the meeting on October, 17th.
Please tell the town how you feel about this and that you would like them change to the municipal code for commercial nurseries. Please call, email, write or show up at town hall:
Richard Maitland
Chairman Planning and Zoning Commission
Town Hall
101 Field Point Rd.
Greenwich, CT 06830
Like father, like son?
Paddock’s father, Patrick Benjamin Paddock, was a bank robber who landed on the FBI most-wanted list in 1969. The wanted notice described the elder Paddock as “psychopathic” with suicidal tendencies. He had used firearms to rob banks and was considered armed and dangerous.
I was puzzled to learn this morning that the shooter was 64, because I'd have thought that someone so deranged would have cracked long before this. I too am 64, so I've been checking myself for symptoms but, so far as I can tell, I'm no late bloomer. Then again, I don't have a family history of mental disease. Readers may be assured to know that my gun collection consists entirely of single-shot and (five-shot) bolt-action rifles.
Paddock seems to have acquired illegal, fully-automatic weapons, which are already banned under current gun laws.
As is murder.
Purchased new for $5.5 million in 2006, the unhappy buyers first tried unloading it in 2012, without success, and have had it actively listed for the past two years. Today's price cut to $4.750 might do it, but given buyers' resistance to its previous price of $4.950, that may not be enough.
It's a decent house, although a tad too close toNorth Street to be noise-free, but 2006 was a long time ago; mid country values haven't rebounded from the retreat of 2008.
Back on today, price unchanged. "No one's gonna steal MY house! Or buy it, either".)
When the price doesn't budge for six years, like 85 Round Hill Road, $6.495 million.
A "make me move" price only works if someone wants your house. Otherwise, don't pack your bags.
Tomorrow, though, we'll be hunting peasants: a tougher challenge
Fly away, little bird!
I'm off to help release 2,300 pheasants this morning and into the afternoon, to prepare the way for people like me to slaughter them during the next three months. Mind you, most of the birds will go towards feeding hawks, foxes and coyotes, but it's a worthy attempt.
The hardest part of this project these days is finding release areas outside the grip of the Land Trust people, who are grabbing increasingly large acreage and shutting it down to hunting (and even fishing), and city types, who are buying farms and posting them against "trespassers". The two groups are changing southern Maine into NYC/Boston North, and are expanding their virus into the middle and even northern parts of the state. Rural America and its traditions are under siege.
Sad.
Gott im himmel, what'd I do?
Greta Gerwig is now "real sorry" she demanded Lincoln Center cancel production of "The End of the Land" last summer.
Greta Gerwig, a potential Oscar frontrunner for her upcoming directorial debut “Lady Bird” — has exclusively told Page Six that it was a mistake to lend her name to a letter asking Lincoln Center to ban an Israeli-backed play.
Page Six previously reported that Gerwig’s name appeared on a letter with over 60 artists calling on Lincoln Center to cancel performances of “To the End of the Land,” which is being presented “with support of Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs in North America.” A source said, “There is an Oscar campaign afoot for Gerwig, and her team doesn’t want her controversial anti-Israel opinions hurting her chances.”
On Friday, Gerwig told us in an exclusive statement that she regrets signing the letter.
“This past summer, a close friend asked me to lend my name to a letter,” Gerwig wrote in a statement. “I am generally careful about the causes I support, but in this case I was not. I was unfamiliar with the complexities of the letter and I did not take the time to study them.”
... I am sorry for any confusion or hurt I may have caused.”
Although as recently as five days ago Gerwig's handlers were refusing to let reporters even mention her call for censoring the play, the realization that she'd jeopardized her Oscar quest has caused the German-American ("hey, it was grandfather who gassed those people, not me") actress to reconsider. This morning she reached out to FWIW to say that she was furious with her management and her "so-called friends" for letting her sign onto the anti-israel campaign.
"Of course I didn't read the fucking play, let alone see it," she told FWIW, "so I have no fucking idea what it's about, but all the cool kids were signing on, and, you know, Israel's like — you know, some kind of Nazi place, right? So what was wrong with going along? What's wrong with being liked?
My manager never told me that there were Jews in Hollywood, powerful Jews — who let them in? — who'd get pissed off at me for signing that goddamned letter, and my shitty friends didn't, either. Now I'm up for an Oscar, and this goddamn thing is coming back to bite me in the ass. Shit. So okay, I'm really, really sorry, okay? Now can I have my fucking prize?"
But boy, is she pissed!
A tale of two signings
Of course, vendor fraud eventually catches up with the malfactor
Ding Dong
Theresa Hatton fired or, as the GAR puts it, "is looking for a new challenge". At least they didn't claim it was "to spend more time with her family", as these sorts of announcements usually explain.
Other realtors tell me she was a nice person. I just remember her filing a spurious claim with the Greenwich Police Department that I had "threatened her". Total bullshit — never happened, I'd never met the woman, but she wasted at least an hour of my time (and countless hours of "investigation" by two GPD detectives). It turned out to be a very pleasant meeting with those detectives, which ended with their apologizing, but saying that they had to investigate complaints of this sort, which of course they do, but I never really forgave the lady.
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