Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
Go ahead, try to satirize this
From Olympia, Washington, which, back 50 years ago, was a nice, rural community of loggers, hunting guides and fishermen. I haven’t been back since 1970, but apparently things have changed. Gender disphorics chastise city council for allowing policemen into City Hall.
8 Plow Lane (off Old Church) closed at $2.020 million. While I’ll refrain from commenting on the merits of the addition to its front, the sellers did do a nice job of bringing back and expanding a tired old 1949 house they’d paid $1.650 for in 2007. The house was so tired back then that, even accounting for the real estate frenzy at the time, I wondered at the price they paid. They may have, too: they used a different broker this time around.
Circa 2007
Which is to say about as badly as our northeast section. 34 Stiles Lane, purchased for $3.850 in 2004 and, after expansion and renovation, placed back up for sale last year for $5.295, closed yesterday at $3.350 million.
The sellers may have been lucky to get even that much.
The House Judiciary Committee’s second impeachment hearing got testy Monday when Democrats allowed a lawyer who had already served as a witness to return to the bench and cross-examine other witnesses.
Lawyer Barry Berke, who was selected to be the Judiciary Democrats’ counsel, started the hearing by presenting his opinion as a witness as to why President Donald Trump should be impeached. After serving as a witness, Berke was then assigned to question and cross-examine other witnesses at the hearing.
As Berke started questioning the Republican counsel, Steve Castor, Republican Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert interrupted to clarify if a witness could also serve as a questioner under House rules. Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler refused to acknowledge Gohmert’s point of order.
“There is no rule or precedent for anybody being a witness and then getting to come up and question, so — the point of order is he’s inappropriate to be up here asking questions,” Gohmert asked.
I’ve never seen that in any trial I participated in, but then again, I never tried a case in the Soviet Union.
Aw, you peeked The fanny slap has 10 million views and climbing. Fat Jerry and his despicable crowd have maybe two, and they’re CNN technicians. Who says America doesn’t have its priorities right?
Nancy pants
124 Old Mill Road
Mel Gibson listed his house at 124 Old Mill Road in 2007 for $39.5 million in 2007 and finally sold it to its present owners for $24 million in 2010. They, in turn, listed it for $32.995 (why?) in 2012, and have been dropping that price slowly ever since. It hit $19.950 last year and is now reported as pending, though I expect its final sale price will be substantially lower than even the current ask.
Officially built in 1927, but much of it was constructed from old castles dismantled in England and shipped here, so I suppose someone can boast of a house built when there were still naked savages roaming the Greenwich woodlands.
It’s on 78 acres, four lots of 28, 17.7, 15, and another 15 acres, respectively, with the Merritt Parkway serving as its southern border. There was a plan afoot to build condominiums here, but our P&Z squelched it. But how thorough was that squelching, and does the new owner have further nefarious plans for all that land?
Stay tuned.
25 Lower Cross Road. Listed by Thomas Peterffy for $65 million, sold for $21. Condolences can be sent to Mr. Peterffy in Palm Beach
NYC wealthy fleeing to low-cost states
Analysts say a growing number of New York’s financial elite believe that fleeing the city for other states with lower taxes and costs in order to protect their wealth is a total no-brainer …
“The wealthy are migrating out of high-income-tax states such as New York to lower- or no-state-income-tax locations, more than ever,” according to Michele Lee Fine, president of Cornerstone Wealth Advisory and a financial adviser in Jericho, New York.
“Much of the tone and focus of the recent political agenda has been attacking the wealthy directly at the wallet,” she added. “Whether you’re a billionaire or millionaire, there is cause for concern.”
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John O’Shea, executive chairman of the broker-dealer Global Alliance Securities, knows the feeling.
About a year ago, O’Shea relocated his company from 100 Wall St. in lower Manhattan to Charleston, South Carolina. He and his wife Jennifer vacated their New York home for a gated community in a tony section of this South Carolina paradise, paying just over $1 million for a luxury waterfront property on almost an acre.
“You can make more money and keep more of it in South Carolina,” O’Shea said.
With a local property tax rate of 0.4%, it means O’Shea pays just over $4,000 annually to live in the lap of luxury — a small fraction of what the owner of a comparable home in many parts of New York would pay in property taxes. And with a maximum of only $10,000 in local property taxes now deductible against federal taxes, O’Shea is making out just fine.
That’s unlike many New York residents who live in some of the fanciest ZIP codes — some with annual property taxes starting at $40,000.
“The quality of life is also much better down here,” O’Shea told The Post. “I have a much larger property than what I would pay for something similar up in New York — and I also have lower costs for my business and in my home.”
At 100 Wall St., where O’Shea once ran a sprawling operation, at least three other firms also recently left the building for offices in the US sunshine states, according to people familiar with the moves. Management for the building didn’t respond to a request for comment.
I have a number of former clients who left Greenwich for Florida. I can’t think of a less desirable state to live in, personally, but so far, not one of my clients has expressed regret over the move.
You don’t need no stinkin’ school to be Prez, bro
50% of world’s high school dropouts reveal that they did so to protest global warming.
As [Little Greta] approaches her 18th month on strike from school, many teenagers across the globe are following her lead, regardless of whether they were going to drop out, anyway.
“Yeah, uh, climate change or whatever it’s called is super important to me,” says James Davidson, 17, “so that’s definitely why I stopped going to school two years ago. For sure.”
Davidson’s mom, Emily, had some initial concerns. “To be honest, when James dropped out of school to spend his time vaping and playing video games, I was worried. But now that I know it’s because he cares so passionately about the environment… well, I just couldn’t be more proud!”
Fun party favor to pass out to street beggars in lieu of cash, along with saying, “I gave at the office”
Trump proposes requiring 688,000 freeloaders on food stamps to work or train after relaxing for three months at taxpayers’ expense, and the screams of anguish are heard throughout the land. Here’s the deal: out of 36 miullion food stamp recipients, 688,000 are able-bodied adults, with no dependents, and thus presumably available to fit 20 hours of work or job training into thir busy schedule. Current law limits their time-off vacation to three months, and after that, it’s get off your butt and go to work, go to school, or get off the dole. Seems fair to me: why should everyone else have to get up at the same hour every day and go to work while these loafers can hang around sucking doobies at real workers’ expense?
So that’s the law; trouble is, some states have been granting waivers to the deadbeats and allowing them to collect food stamps forever, and using federal tax money to fund the state legislators’ largess. Trump has proposed restricting the states power to grant such waivers and returning to the existing law. This is cruel? There are those who say that fostering and encouraging indolence is cruel, because it strips a person of dignity and any sense of self-worth. Liberals enjoy the prospect of making others wards of the state, but the individuals themselves don’t seem to be benefitting from the experience. They’re trapped in a cycle of poverty; Trump wants to encourage them to break out of that cycle, liberals wants them to stay exactly where they are. “We’ll make them all beggars, ‘cause they’re easy to please” runs the lyric, and liberals know that song by heart.
UPDATE: Excellent debunking of OCS’s claim that people are going to starve because of this.
UPDATE: At least one Democrat candidate is on board with this, or should be:
"The culture of welfare must be replaced with the culture of work," Biden said on the Senate floor. "The culture of dependence must be replaced with the culture of self-sufficiency and personal responsibility. And, the culture of permanence must no longer be a way of life."
Mind you, he said that in 1996, and has less enthusiasm for workfare today. What changed? Well, in one word, Trump.
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