A journalistic first

You mean we’re the onky ones here?

OCA demands that borders be opened to all latinos because this is really their land.

I really couldn’t care less about what this silly, stupid woman says, but this bit of reporting, buried at the end of the article, caught my eye:

'Thank you. I'm mad, y'all,' a smiling Ocasio-Cortez said when applause erupted among a small crowd assembled to provide a video backdrop. 

It’s the oldest trick in the book: gather up a handful of “demonstrators” — in this case, probably congressional staffers, group them together and have them jump up and down waving signs in front of network TV, which is always happy to do a close-in focus to hide the paltry size. In my experience, it’s only been when a conservative group posts a pull-away shot showing the fraud that the insignificance of the crowd is revealed. I’m surprised that a liberal reporter from The Daily Mail chose to out them.

Someone's in no rush to sell

549 North Street is back on the street again, new agent, but still at the same $7.995 price it was asking last November, when its listing was cancelled. The owner’s ben trying to sell this since 2006, when he started at $12.5, and with an occasional year-or two off in the past thirteen years, has had it on the market ever since.

The house was built in 1997, and maintenance notwithstanding, it’s not getting any younger. Maybe the spring market will yield a buyer in the mid-$7 range, but maybe not; check back in June.

Dropped value on Keofferam

39 Keofferam Road, Old Greenwich, is new to the market today and priced at $3.150 million. That’s a bit startling, because this 1909 house sold for $3.250 in 2007 (admittedly, at the height f the market) and totally renovated and expanded by these owners. Improvements also mechanical upgrades, like ripping out the original steam radiators and installing a central air and heating system. In short, a large amount of money was put into this house, and the owners aren’t going to see a penny of it back.

To my eye, the house (inside) is beautiful, and Keofferam has always been a great street, so I wonder about the reason for the decline in value. The listing agent, Amy Rabenhorst, is a very talented, experienced agent and knows Old Greenwich, so I trust her judgement; she hasn’t undervalued the house, but has instead gone with current market conditions.

So what gives? The unpopularity of old homes among our current crop of buyers, is my guess, and that’s too bad; they’re passing up charm in favor of bland, modern construction that will be dated within ten years.

But that’s the market.

Virginia Democrat Party admits not a single member HASN'T dressed in blackface

virginia lady democrat delegation attends sotus

“Well, we do have one”, the party chairman conceded, “but he’s black to begin with, so ….”

New Listing in Lucas Point, Old Greenwich

10 S Crossway, $5.850 million. Right price? I haven’t run comps, so I don’t know, but I’m a sucker for Lucas Point, one of our best, friendliest neighborhoods, and this house, built in 2000, takes full advantage of the water views. I’d certainly like to live here.

Contract on Sheephill;

51 Sheephill, 2018 construction, asking $2.465 million. Not quite my cup of tea on the outside, and the house was built on what passes as a double lot here, so it’s been crammed onto 1/4 acre.

But it’s new, and the interior architecture is clean.

Probably a safe bet

GPD says murder of woman found dead, bound hand and foot and stuffed in a suitcase is likely “an isolated incident”..

Certainly I’m not familiar with any other portmanteau mysteries in town history.

We're living in the crazy years

30-year-old politician refuses to resign after picture of him as a 16-year-0ld in black face surfaces.

State Rep. Anthony Sabatini, a 30-year-old Republican representing House District 32, said the image showing him as a teen with darkened skin while wearing sunglasses, a New York Yankees cap, a do-rag and gold chains has been “decontextualized” since his days at Eustis High School, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

“I’m 16 years old, one of my best friends of the time was black, and we thought at the time – looking back, it was immature – it would be funny to dress as each other,” Sabatini told the newspaper. “He dressed in my clothes – a Ralph Lauren polo shirt, shorts, Converse – and I dressed in his clothing … None of us thought 14 years later any of us would be a public figure and the photo would be decontextualized.”

Virginia’s governor’s predicament is amusing, simply because it’s fun to watch Democrats squirm, but really: are we seriously planning to go back 30-40 years into people’s lives as teenagers and see whether their adolescent behavior disqualifies them from public service, or even private employment? In the case of, say, burning small animals alive, say, bring it on. Otherwise, let it go.

SOTU Summary

Lots of lins to discussion of the speech over at Instapundit. Personally, I didn’t tune in, because there will be n unity, so why listen to a plea for such a thing?

Interesting period piece, but does it have value?

the fifties are calling: they want their cardboard model back

7 Memory Lane (off Riversville Road, and so named because it ends at a cemetery), has reduced its price to $1,695 million. It’s kind of cool, as an example of untouched, mid-1950s modern architecture, but I wonder what the market is for a house with no central air, two first-floor bedrooms with a shared, tiny bathroom, and a third guest bedroom on the floor below, plus a one-car garage and a carport? All on the west side of town.

Maybe a weekend retreat for an avant garde West Village couple with a pair of shih tzus but otherwise, tough sell, I predict.