Great Expectations, dashed

421 Stanwich Road is back on the active list, now priced at $4.950 million, which is, conveniently, the amount of its mortgage.

A Jordan Saper creation, it sold new in 2000 for $4.7 million, and was up for sale between 2008 and 2010 for $8.250, which would have been a puzzling price had the listing agent not been Tamar Lurie, but Tamar’s always brought a droll sense of whimsy to her pricing.

Town’s appraised it at $6.069 million, so knock another million-and-a-half off our Grand List. At least.

Recruiting app screens out Negroes, Jews, Muslims and woman; anything wrong with that?

Justice!

Oops! Had that wrong: it only screens out males

The Women in Bizz feature … excludes men from a user's pool of potential connections. The idea is to help a traditionally underrepresented workforce connect and build support systems outside the office.

"Representation is critically important for women, especially in traditionally male dominated industries," CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said in a statement to CNBC. "We're helping women connect with other women to show them what's possible and give them resources as they build their careers." 

Bumble Bizz, launched in late 2017, is often used by recruiters or hiring managers to find new talent. Limiting the potential pool could help women compete for jobs in male-dominated industries.

"We hope women embrace the opportunity to help foster each others' development and ask for the time they may not be getting in the work place," the company said in a statement.

Not that it wasn't stillborn from the start, but Starbuck's Howard Schultz just finished off his campaign for the presidency

The mob has already descended, of course.

No wonder Occasional Cortex is beloved by the elite — she's just like them, even though poorer, for now

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

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

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

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

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

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

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