Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
Flint’s just a tiny example. But from water to housing to healthcare, everything will depend on angels replacing human politicians and apparatchiks.
That may be tough.
Badges? We don’ need no stinking’ badges!
TSA lets illegal aliens fly without identification documents
For six months now, the TSA has been ignoring the rules it created to make the skies safer for travelers in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. There are 15 documents that the TSA considers to be valid for a passenger to board an aircraft. Illegal immigrants typically hold none of these.
What does a 93-year-old terrorist wear? Depends.
ICE often drops people off at bus stations, where nongovernmental organizations that have been alerted to the drop-offs send volunteers to help migrants make travel arrangements to join family members in other cities. The agency then wipes its hands clean following the releases. ICE would not comment on the legal precedent for undocumented immigrants boarding flights in the U.S.
So instead, those looking to depart the border via regional airports become TSA’s burden. If TSA chose to turn away people at airports it would apply more pressure to overwhelmed bus companies like Greyhound and local motels in border towns, complicating an already dire situation for localities struggling to care for this demographic.
Next up: track and field
AUBURN, CA—Local 36-year-old man Nate Ripley, who identifies as a six-year-old, “absolutely crushed” a game-winning homer at a local tee-ball game and won the championship for his team Monday evening, reports confirmed.
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His team, the Lil’ Padres, attempted to hoist him up on their shoulders in celebration of their great victory over the favored Tiny Tigers, but were unable to pick up the large 230-pound man.
Ripley’s feat comes at the end of a momentous tee-ball season, in which the self-identified six-year-old absolutely shattered every record set prior to that point. With a 1.000 batting average, 52 home runs, and an incredible showing at first base, second base, shortstop, third base, and pitcher, the man is being called an inspiration to other six-year-olds everywhere.
266 Round Hill Road sold in January, 2007 for $6 million. That buyer expanded the house from 4,727 sq.ft. to 8,450 and put in on the market in 2015 at $10.950 million. The price dropped to $9.5 before the listing expired in 2016. Further renovations were performed in 2017 and this year the house was returned to active listing status at the far more modest price of $6.8. No one’s bit yet, so the price was dropped today to $6.5
$6.5 would still be a substantial sale, of course, but no one’s buying; at least not yet, and writing off the costs incurred almost doubling the size of the house will be galling, if not painful.
The town appraises this place at $5 million — for the owner’s sake, let’s hope that, for once, the appraiser abandoned his usual optimism and was in a dyspeptic mood when he stopped by.
Maybe the prospective buyers discovered that the bicycles aren’t included, or the child they’re expecting is a boy
70 Otter Rock Drive, $6.250 million, reported as under contract on May 17, was returned to the market today. Deals can fall apart for lots of reasons, some serious, most not, so there’s no point speculating here. I bring it up only to remind readers that a contract does not necessarily mean a sale. Experienced agents know better than to start calculating their portion of 2.5% before the lawyer’s trustee check clears.
Just yesterday I pointed out that the boarding school look was hugely popular in the early 90s, and many examples of the style ended up on Lower Cross.
61 Lower Cross Road’s listing has been renewed, but the price it’s failed to sell at: $7.9 million, remains unchanged. This may prove a mistake. The property, all 13,000 square feet of it on 14 acres, has been on the market since November, 2016, when it started at $11.9 million, and has sat, empty and unwanted ever since, despite that drop to $7.9 last July. The town values it at $11 million; the market obviously this it’s worth well under $8.
Empty house, octogenarian owners comfortably settled in Florida, I’d punt, if I were them.
The Bentley’s long since gone south where the sun always shines and salt is reserved for cellars
It’s easy to see why the current listing doesn’t show the kitchen
Or the baths
Tough day at the beach
Sober singles say dating can be a dry hole
In fact, there’s nothing to this story — young people’s social world revolves around bars, duh — and I’m surprised that the Post bothered to run it, but it did give me a chance to use Ogden Nash’s witticism and toss in a double entendre as a bonus, so I’m going with it.
These days, the 31-year-old [Malia Griggs] will have an occasional cocktail, but she says that sobriety has definitely affected the way she socializes.
“I think I’ve been maybe avoiding dating, ’cause I don’t want to explain it over and over,” she says.
Here’s the money quote:
She also finds that bars have lost their appeal. “I think when you’re sober, all the things that are annoying about bars stick out — how loud they are, how expensive they are, how obnoxious other people can be,” Griggs says.
Very few drunks are nearly as witty and charming as they think they are.
The listing says these solar panels are owned outright, rather than leased, and that’s good: the new owners can yank them off, if they wish, and won’t be tied to a solar contractor.
6 Grimes Road, $1.650 million, contract in just 22 days; the OG market is lively in this price range. Shorelands is a nifty neighborhood, within easy walking distance to the village and the school, and the community beach small craft launching area (at high tide) is a huge draw.
Shorelands does flood, though, and I see that this property is in the AE zone with a first floor elevation of just eleven feet, if I’m reading the survey correctly (and I may not be). The water isn’t going to rise to eleven feet, though that 4’ basement might require swim fins, but if the house is non-conforming, expansion or improvements may be troublesome. Presumably the buyers and they agent have investigated the issue and are satisfied. Living with occasional flooding is just part of the price for Shorelands, maybe even part of its charm, and I personally would be glad to pay it.
Besides, the house hasn’t floated away since it was built in 1923.
Melania Trump is being mocked for wearing a cabin crew inspired look as she landed in the UK for the Trump family’s offical state visit.
The 49-year-old First Lady had barely stepped off the plane at London Stansted Airport before Twitter blew up with jokes about her so-called “trolley dolly” look.
To give Melania credit, her choice to wear Burberry, a British designer, to the UK was no doubt a carefully-considered style move.
She is visiting the country as part of a three-day long state visit alongside her husband, President Donald Trump.
But it would seem the usually stylish former model hit the wrong style notes as she touched down in London today – with “air hostess” and “flight attendant” jokes aplenty.
By the way, I’m so old, I remember when “stewardess” was changed to “flight attendant” because the former term was considered demeaning to women. “Trolly dolly” hardly seems an improvement in that regard compared to flight attendant. Funny how TDS brings out the worst in liberals.
145 Shore Road, $2.205 million. Quick sale (under a month)
The sales history here is telling. $2.125 in 2008, $2.130 in 2014, and now $2.205. The kitchen was redone during that time, bathrooms updated, new paint, etc., but nothing major, so it seems that, currently, and in OG, and in this price range, keeping a house fresh will at least keep you even with your purchase price.
The color last time; I think white was right, for this house
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