Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
14 Tait Road, asking $3.295 million. It sold new for $2.925 in 2012, so you can’t say Old Greenwich prices have sorted in the past seven years, but brother Gid obviously priced it to sell: 21 days from hitting the market to signed contracts and all contingencies met.
Greenwich has never been particularly welcoming to contemporary design
230 Round Hill Road, priced at $5.450 million in May, 2017, has been marked down again and now asks $3.450. The owners paid $4.1 for it in 2006, but that was another era.
Back in October, 2017, I noted a price drop on this place and wondered why, drenched in orange as it was, it hadn’t sold. “Formerly 06830”, you guessed — “for now” — a final selling price of $3.325. If this latest cut does the trick, you get the Zebra Rug Award.
Transgender easily wins NCAA track championship
A transgender athlete who identifies as a woman won an NCAA national championship on Saturday.
Franklin Pierce University senior Cece Telfer beat the eight-woman field in the Division II women’s 400-meter hurdles by more than a second, with a personal collegiate-best time of 57.53.….
According the NCAA’s Transgender Handbook, “According to medical experts on this issue, the assumption that a transgender woman competing on a women’s team would have a competitive advantage outside the range of performance and competitive advantage or disadvantage that already exists among female athletes is not supported by evidence.”
The late Florence Griffith-Joyner, dubbed “the fastest woman on earth” still holds the record for the womans’ 200 meter: 21.34, a record that Forbes predicted “may never be beat”. The high school boys record for that same distance is 20.13. Hundreds of high school boys have easily beaten Flo-Jo’s records in track events, yet according to the NCAA, boys hold no competitive advantage over girls.
As I understand the Left’s position, it is criminal to deny the science behind global warming theories, and criminal to admit to the science of human biology. For small-brained people like me, that’s confusing.
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Trump insists he was sticking up for Biden after Kim Jong Un insulted him.
When it comes to him siding with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — and his description of Joe Biden as having a “low IQ” — President Trump says the former veep has got it all wrong.
“I was actually sticking up for Sleepy Joe Biden while on foreign soil,” Trump said in a tweet early Tuesday night. “Kim Jong Un called him a ‘low IQ idiot,’ and many other things, whereas I related the quote of Chairman Kim as a much softer ‘low IQ individual.’ Who could possibly be upset with that?”
Like that line in “Put another log on the fire”:
“Ain’t I always nice to your kid sister?
Don’t I warn you when you’re getting fat?
Well, a man can’t love a woman more than that.”
Counting chickens, or many a slip twixt cup and lip
On May 6 I reported, under the heading “Deer Park still sells well, that 80 Meadow Road, $5.9 million, had entered into contract and a sale was pending, all just six days after being listed. Ordinarily, “pending”, as opposed to “under contract”, means all contingencies have been met and a sale is indeed pending. Apparently not in this case; it’s back on the market as of this afternoon.
781 Lake Avenue, asking $8.450 million, is reported as pending. No idea what the final sales price will be, but the owner paid $6.8 for this 1930 house in 2002, completely renovated it top to bottom, added an additional 1,300 square feet, and put it up for sale in 2015 for $17.350. Looks like she’ll be getting less than half of that.
Taurus: Winning friends and influencing people since 1980
A reputed Brooklyn gangster who is awaiting sentencing for gun possession was caught red-handed with a loaded pistol — less than a month after scoring a “diversion” plea deal to avoid prison, The Post has learned.
Tyreke Boston, 21, was busted on Friday when the NYPD responded to a report of a man in a red shirt brandishing a gun during a dispute in East Flatbush at around 12:40 a.m.
Upon seeing the cops, Boston allegedly ran into a backyard off Clarendon Road while holding the left side of his pants.
He was stopped, and a frisk turned up a Taurus 9mm pistol in his pocket, sources said.
The weapon allegedly had one round in the chamber and 14 more in the magazine.
Boston — a reputed member of the Collect Your Guap gang, a subset of the Folk Nation — had been previously busted with a loaded firearm on Nov. 7, court records show.
He was released on $5,000 bail and pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal possession of a weapon on April 30, with his sentencing scheduled for June 17.
The crime carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, but Boston copped his plea under an agreement to enroll in one of Mayor de Blasio’s “diversion” programs, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The programs provide an array of “community-based” services, including mental-health and drug treatment, vocational classes and “interpersonal-skills training,” according to the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice.
Defendants can receive the services for months or years instead of getting locked up.
I’m just guessing here, but in addition to possessing an illegal cartridge magazine holding 14 rounds, young Master Tyreke may have also violated the law merely by possessing an actual pistol, and isn’t that puzzling? How on earth could he come into possession of a pistol, when NY gun laws are so strict?
586 Round Hill Road — we seem to have a flurry of Bedford-line activity today — has dropped its price, again, and is now going practically begging for $11.250 million. I don’t think it will fetch anywhere near that, but it is an improvement over its original 2014 price of $17.950, and who knows? Another five years of price shedding and it might sell. Of course the owner, 74, decamped for Naples, FL some time ago, so he might want to speed up this deaccessioning project.
747 Riversville Road, ten acres, two lots, semi-decrepit (well, needs a lot of work) 1850 house, November contract, has closed at $1.450 million. The owners priced it at $6 million on April 2, 2007, then raised it to $7.5 million two days later. I don’t know what was behind that pricing disagreement, but the participants could have saved themselves the bother of arguing, because the house has sat on the market at a steadily decreasing price ever since.
I don’t know many people in today’s market who want two building lots and a project up on the Bedford line, but there’s obviously at least one, and he seems to have gotten a pretty cheap deal. Maybe.
The listing for 979 Lake Avenue, way up Lake near its Albany terminus, expired today, but was immediately relisted at the same price, $1.199 million, that it’s stuck with since November. The house is empty, the spring market is over, and these owners have been trying to unload the place since 2017 — it may be time to move on.
There’s a history of miscalculation here, dating back to the original 2017 price of $1.995. When the agent (not the current one) finally got the price dropped, she proclaimed a “HUGE PRICE REDUCTION! Now priced well below Zestimate”. For some reason, that was unpersuasive.
The current price wouldn’t seem excessive — the town appraises this house at $1.3, though that may change with next year’s revelation — except for the fact that no one’s taken a run at the place even at $1.199. The market’s had ample time to respond to this price, and it’s spoken; or that’s my take on the situation, anyway.
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