No wonder Occasional Cortex is beloved by the elite — she's just like them, even though poorer, for now
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Two ends of the same animal
The environmental hypocrisy of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez
The NYP is all over this fraudulent bit of fluff, detailing her lies about where she’s living, paying her boyfriend with campaign funds, using the very same plastic bags she claims are going to end the world in 12 years, etc., and here’s a small, telling fact:
Since declaring her candidacy in May 2017, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign heavily relied on those combustible-engine cars — even though a subway station was just 138 feet from her Elmhurst campaign office.
She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno and other car services, federal filings show. The campaign had 505 Uber expenses alone.
In all, Ocasio-Cortez spent $29,365.70 on those emissions-spewing vehicles, along with car and van rentals — even though her Queens HQ was a one-minute walk to the 7 train.
The campaign shelled out only $8,335.41 on 52 MetroCard transactions.
Ironically, the Uber-loving politician took a tough public stand against the conveyance after a New York City taxi driver committed suicide in February 2018.
“Yellow cab drivers are in financial ruin due to the unregulated expansion of Uber,” she tweeted on March 21. “What was a living wage job now pays under minimum.”
Her campaign billed only seven rides in yellow cabs in a year and a half, federal filings show.
Havemeyer contract
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66 Halsey Drive, new construction, asking $2.425 million. I’ve been spending a lot of time away from town for awhile, and despite frequent visits back, I seem to have developed sticker shock, because of what I’ve been seeing in the multi-million-range in other areas of the country, and how much house a couple of million dollars can command elsewhere.
But, I have to remind myself, what a dollar fetches somewhere else is irrelevant, and the Greenwich market is what it is. And this is what it is.
Riverside continues to plug along at the $3 million range
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106 Lockwood Road, a spec house once marketed at $3.895 in 2016, has sold for $3 million Decent, but not exceptional build quality, design pulled from a build-it-book, on a third of an acre on a busy street. In short, a typical product for this market.
But the stuff keeps selling, so hooray.
Full circle
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The owners of 646 Riversville Road paid $2 million for this house on five acres in 2000, and as far back as 2007 tried reselling it as land for $4.995 million. It’s been on and off the market since then, between rentals, and today it’s back, asking $2.150.
Even that may not do it.
And a waterfront sale in Old Greenwich
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12 Indian Drive, $11 million. Sold for $14.1 in 2012, and listed this time, in 2016 at $15.995, but what’s a $3 million loss when you’ve enjoyed six years of waterfront living?
I’m only being half-facetious. My daughter Sarah’s best friend grew up in the equally-beautiful, though older home next door, and Sarah herself might almost have been part of the family, considering how much time she spent there. That friend’s father once told me that, when his family lived around the corner on Ledge Road in the ‘90s, a wave came up from the sea and surged through number 8 Indian Drive, forcing the owner to move out for six months. He didn’t care, and snapped it up when it was placed on sale: “price you pay for living on the water”, he said. That family has been very happy there, and I have always envied their fantastic views and deep-water dock, but I’ve never had the wherewithal to risk the expense of living in the Hyatt for half a year while my residence was restored.
But I would if I could.
But someone still loves Greenwich
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Somewhere in our capital, the weasels are gnashing their teeth in anticipation
Brother Gideon reports on a non-MLS sale, 110 Field Point Circle, for $48 million. According to Gid, one hedge-funder decamped to Florida with his family, but another has stepped up to fund Hartford in his stead. God bless him.
Oh, I don't think so
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Greenwich Time is out with a puff piece on 76 Khakum Wood Road, on the market for $6.595 million. I don’t want to risk infringing on that paper’s copyrighted pictures so I’ll just include a few from the MLS listing instead, but I urge the interested reader to click on the GT link and see the best its photographer could come up with: the butler’s pantry? Bar? is a treat in itself.
Basically, the place is a dark mausoleum that will hold exactly zero appeal to any buyer under 90. I’m not sure what land value in Khakum Wood is these days, but $6.6 isn’t it.
viewing parlour?
Perfect dining room for the young family
Ecch
/196 Shore Road, Old Greenwich, a 1919 tear-down in the high flood zone, is back on the market, reduced to $3.1 million from last year’s ask of $3.689. That may be the right price; it’s waterfront, but I was struck by its agent’s choice of what to emphasize:
Full of history; formerly rented by John Phillips of Mama's and Papa's fame and Mick Jagger sunbathed on the seawall.
Phillips is probably best known for raping his own daughter, McKenzie, possibly impregnating her on the eve of her wedding to a Rolling Stone hanger-on (she subsequently aborted her baby, unsure whether it was the child of her father or the groom), and continuing an incestual relationship for another ten years. The image of this man lounging on the sea wall with Mick Jagger and poor McKenzie is, to me, off-putting.
Tear it down and rebuild and who’ll remember? But as a selling point … no, just … no.
I dunno, if I had $3 million to spend on a house and was told this was it, I'd be a tad depressed
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The Ponderosa it is not
25 Druid Lane, Riverside, is offered today at $3.195 million. The logic behind that price is perfectly understandable: these owners bought it new in 2013 for $2.932 million, but my goodness, nice interior aside, it basically strikes me as looking not all that different from the 1954 split-level it replaced. Yes, very nice inside, but it’s still a plain-vanilla home on a third of an acre, hemmed in by its neighbors on both sides, and while this may indeed be the entry-level price for a decent house in Riverside, I do wonder whether Riverside may be reaching its peak.