Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
474 North Street, reported as under contract October 24 when it was priced at $2.675 million, is back on the rolls at $2.250. Back in 2006 it was listed at $5.495, but that was a Tamar price, and those were exuberant even when the market seemed destined to soar skyward forever. Still, at, say, $2, this might be a good deal; depends what caused the contract to collapse.
Apparently King thinks the president should have donned hospital scrubs and jetted off to California, Greta Thunberg be damned. Are there any California Democrats equally deserving of the novelist’s contempt? No; they’re different, because Orange Man bad
No. 44 Patterson, $6.975 million. The owners paid $4.6 on an asking price of $4.150 back in 2001. then expanded and renovated it. They’ve attached a hefty price tag to the result of their efforts, but I wouldn’t be all that surprised if they get something approaching their price, largely because there aren’t many fine old houses on an acre-plus, in town. The location is burdened by the presence of GA and Brunswick, but being an easy stroll to those two schools and steps away from Greenwich Avenue should have great appeal to some.
It’s certainly a better deal than that $10 million ask on Zaccheus Mead Lane.
Fauxcahantas Warren claims her favorite workout music is “anything by Patsy Cline”
Who among us does not love Patsy Cline (and NASCAR), but that country great wasn’t known for performing songs with hard, driving beats suitable for prancing around in leotards. I’m pretty familiar with her oeuvre, and I can’t name a single song of hers that would be suitable for gym work (go ahead: see for yourself).
In fact, I’m beginning to think that our beer-swilling senator from Massachusetts is no more authentic than that other Bay State hero, John Kerry.
Go ahead: lie down, put your feet up, and work up a sweat as Patsy takes you down Memory Lane.
Chateau Brodmoor
808 North Street, 14,000 sq. ft. of stone and clapboard across the street from the Conyers Farm gatehouse, is down to $6.5 million. It cost these owners $11,368,580 in 2005, and they’ve regretted their purchase since at least 2008, when they first offered to hand it off to someone, anyone else for $12.490 million. The results of that effort are seen in today’s price cut.
54 Londonderry Drive, asking $1.495 million. A 1967 house, updated in 1988, the owners paid $1.4 in 2001. I’m sure that sometime in the past 18 years this property would have been worth more, but today, getting out at what you paid for a home (ignoring inflation) is an achievement of reasonable expectations, in the lower price ranges.
Therapy dogs brought into Capitol to soothe young staffers nerves during impeachment circus
A few years ago, it was believed that the trend to coddle fragile college students with coloring books, crying rooms, stuffed animals and adorable puppies would harm the children because they wouldn’t be ready to face the real world. Well, a lot of them have graduated, and turns out, they brought their neuroses with them and changed that cruel world to one of whipped cream and unicorns.
Sad.
"I'm under enormous pressure from many, many, many voices in my head to think about it," she said. She went on, elaborating on all the voices that echo inside her head all day long. "There's Bob---he's nice. And Carl, he's a swell guy, very supportive. Then there's this voice that sounds like Christopher Walken. He's kind of a jerk sometimes, but even he's on board with me running again."
Pressed for a solid figure, she said there's "at least a few thousand" of these voices that want her to run, and she promised to think about it in order to appease the voices. Clinton also said the voices have told her she's done a great job as president in her first term and they "can't wait" to see how much she can accomplish for the country should she be elected a second time.
With my peeps at last
So I had cataract surgery on my left eye yesterday, and though it went swimmingly, a follow-up visit to the surgeon this morning revealed an unpleasant surprise: I will now require reading glasses full time. It seems that my left eye was a tad shortsighted, and I’ve been unwittingly using that feature to read small print all this time: my right eye is useless for the purpose. Now that the left eye has been “corrected”, I can’t read without corrective lenses on both. Bummer.
I’m reminded of that poor fellow who, holding his crippled hand up to the sky, beseeches, “Oh Lord, make my hands alike!” Lightning flashes, thunder rolls, and wham! Both hands are rendered useless claws.
Oh, well.
Reader JQ brings our attention to a new Zillow listing for 36 Zaccheus Mead Lane, which hit the market yesterday at $10 mm. I certainly wish the builder well; I count several builders as both clients, sometimes, and friends, always, and admire their entrepreneurial spirit and enterprise. Besides, they’re actually making something, rather than just shuffling digital digits from London to New York, and that’s admirable in itself.
That said, I don’t foresee a quick sale here.
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