Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
Woman dragged off flight when she refuses to relinquish “support squirrel”
And in Florida after she’d spent Saturday clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court, I’m guessing.
We’re living in the crazy years.
Wine thief jumps to his death to avoid prison.
A former personal assistant who was about to plead guilty to ripping off his ex-boss — the multi-millionaire head of Goldman Sachs — leaped to his death from the Carlyle Hotel Tuesday as his lawyers waited for him in court.
Hotel staff had been alerted by his sister that he was sending alarming texts saying he might kill himself over the case, police sources said. When security forced open his door, he was naked and sitting on the window sill.
He smiled at them and then jumped, sources said, his body striking a 17th floor balcony with such force that half of him landed on a terrace two floors below, the sources said.
Riker’s Island, then prison, being beat on by gangs? Right choice, I’d say.
Just in time for Halloween, a haunted house
A reader tells me that this Stamford house, 315 Hycliff Terrace, which is on the market for $899,990, reduced from $945,000 after just a week on the market, was recently the site of an ugly attempted murder/suicide. The husband managed to kill his wife but botched his own suicide, and after the police rejected his story about home invaders, was eventually released on bail. He returned home, and finished the job.
The house itself doesn’t seem to amount to much: Zillow labels it as “new construction”, although it was built in 1928 and last remodeled in 1980, but that’s Zillow (and real estate agents) for you, and, for Stamford, seems overpriced, but I do wonder how the market will react. People die in houses all the time, even by suicide, and generally those deaths don’t affect value, but murders cast a certain pall over a property: according to Trulia, a homicide on the premises can drop a home’s value 10% - -25%, and, in my experience, sometimes more. The Dairy Road home where the owner was dragged into the basement and slaughtered, for instance, was torn down and even had its address changed from No. 8 Dairy to No. 10, and still took years to sell, though much of that time on the market can probably be attributed to its being both designed an built by Mark Mariani and grossly overpriced.
I’m curious to see how this one fares.
As if lingering corpses weren’t enough, fogged double-panes indicate failed seals, requiring replacement..
12 Intervale Place (Belle Haven península, near I-95), last asking price $4.375 million, is reported as pending. This is a good looking, beautifully made house, but when finished in 2007 it was put on the market at $6.450, and that was far, far too high, even though 2007 was the peak of the market.
It’s been on and off the market as a rental in the intervening years, but all in all, eleven years is a long time to wait to cash out of a building project.
But again: nice house, and these buyers are probably doing well.
Sir Craig, who retires in December, went on: "The attacker had one of those looks where, if they get you in that look, they would be after you.
"He seemed absolutely focused on getting further down and attacking anyone who was in his way."
Mackay’s colleagues were not impressed by his actions.
A former Scotland Yard commander, who did not wish to be named, said: 'When very senior officers get caught up in a situation like this, they need to remember, first and foremost, that they are a police officer – and then that they are a leader.'
Former Metropolitan Police Federation chairman Glen Smyth said: 'If you are an ordinary cop, your instinct when someone is in trouble – particularly a colleague – is to help them.
Whether it was the right or wrong decision for the Acting Commissioner to leave the scene, it will certainly raise eyebrows.'
“Unarmed” doesn’t necessarily mean that no weapon couldn’t have been found: a tire iron in the body, perhaps? Had he been present on 9/11 when the towers were burning, Siir Craig would today be a “survivor”. Many he enjoy his retirement this December.
UPDATE: the comment from “Your Mother” regarding the use of an umbrella as a weapon reminded me of this:
How Kavanaugh’s confirmation will change the Supreme Court
With Brett Kavanaugh as the newest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, things are going to be different. But how different? Here are a few changes to look for:
► There will be less change than you expect. Most Supreme Court decisions are boring, technical, and decided by easy majorities. That will still be true post-Kavanaugh.
► [snip]
► Strange New Respect for judicial minimalism. As Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule remarked, “Law review editors: brace for a tidal wave of legal academic theories supporting judicial minimalism, Thayerianism, and strong — very strong — theories of precedent. Above all: the Court must do nothing without bipartisan agreement, otherwise it is illegitimate.” The past half-century’s enthusiasm for judicial activism will vanish, as legal academia turns on a dime to promote theories that will constrain the Court until a left-leaning majority returns, at which point they’ll turn on a dime again.
► [snip]
As George Mason University Law School’s Adam White notes, we may see a rerun of the “Impeach Earl Warren” campaigns of the 1960s, only from the left. (Though, to be fair, the move to impeach Warren was led by Democrats, too, of the segregationist variety.)
And of course, there’s this prediction, which is sure to delight the manufacturer of Orvile Redenbacher’s popcorn:
Of course, the shrieking hysterics surrounding this Supreme Court appointment, as bad as they are, will likely pale beside the shrieking hysterics we’ll see if, as seems likely, President Trump has a chance to replace aging liberal heroine Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So there’s that to look forward to, anyway.
AND THERE WAS A GREAT WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH
Kavanaugh confirmed, will be sworn in tonight, with formal investiture creamy later.
It’s being said that the Democrats overplayed their hand with their hysterical, phoney lies, and I agree. For that matter, Saint Ford’s story was falling apart as each day revealed still more inconsistencies, so it was a good thing for her reputation that the matter ended today, rather than a week from now.
You’d think someone would have done some landscaping since 1956, but no
483 Round Hill Road is back with yet another broker and yet another price: $4.895 million. It’s been for sale since 2011, when it began at $6.750, and so far, no-one’s bit. Good looking house, but totally dated. Good views.
Described in a previous listing as a “spectacular gourmet kitchen”. Imagine the disappointment of any buyer who drove almost to New York with cooking on her mind.
2 Round Hill Road, Lake Avenue frontage, is a 1961 home purchased in 2006 for $4.9 million, and underwent, to quote its current agent, a “total gut renovation in 2007”. It was placed back on the market this year at $5.950, and the tepid market response has caused the owners to add it to the “land” listing category today, at that same $5.950.
Trouble is, the house isn’t selling because it’s a disappointing, bland 1960s house, and as land, what’s 3 acres worth here? Not $6 million, that’s for sure, even for those who enjoy the rush and noise of Lake Avenue.
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