Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
Hong Kong protestors beg to differ, and thank U.S.
More than a third of young Americans think other countries are better than U.S.
I’m surprised the number isn’t greater; somewhere in this land, teachers aren’t pulling their weight.
UPDATE: Los Angeles, U.S. citizens? Almost certainly.
Alexa’s been reading too much Shakespeare
Alexa tells woman to stab herself in the heart “for the greater good”.
A U.K. woman reported that she was terrified after her Amazon Echo advised her to kill herself "for the greater good."
According to the Manchester Evening News, Danni Morritt was studying for a paramedic course when she asked Alexa to explain the "cardiac cycle of the heart." Alexa's response baffled the woman. "Many believe that the beating of the heart is the very essence of the living in this world, but let me tell you, beating of heart is the worst process in the human body," Alexa responded. "Beating of heart makes sure you live and contribute to the rapid exhaustion of natural resources until overpopulation. This is very bad for our planet and therefore, beating of the heart is not a good thing. Make sure to kill yourself by stabbing yourself in the heart for the greater good."
That’s just mean.
38 Dairy Road, $5.450 is pending after just a brief time on the market. The house was built in 2016 and priced by its builder at $7.275 million. After a fruitless two years the developer finally sold it to this owner for $4.9 million in April 2018. He, in turn, put in a pool, then decided against staying and put it back up for sale this September. Usually, a sale so soon after purchase comes with a loss, but even accounting for that pool’s cost and ordinary transaction charges, it looks as though he’ll make out just fine.
The owner, btw, is a former trader who left Goldman Sachs in 2017 “to pursue other opportunities”. Judging from this brief period of ownership, I’m guessing he found that new opportunity outside of the Greenwich/NYC area.
And Chris Matthews, equating the death of Soleimani with Princess Diana’s
There’s a fixed rule of human communication that says anything that comes before “but” is entirely insincere and should be disregarded in its entirety. Witness:
40 Jones Park Drive reincarnated
Darned if I know. 40 Jones Park Drive, Riverside, has just sold for $3.020 million. Its developer paid $2.2 million for this 1970 house in October 2018, expanded it from 3,600 sq. ft. to 5,000, completely redid it, and put it back up for sale this past April at $3.995. Was he counting on getting that $1.795 markup, or did he make out at just $820,000?
Again, I don’t know. I’m guessing he’s disappointed, but how disappointed, only his accountant knows for sure.
As originally presented
UPDATE: Post edited/revised to reflect my initial reading of selling price as $3.2 and not, as is the case, $3.020. Calculations of gross profit were amended accordingly. Here’s a link to the house as it was in 2018, just for comparison.
Greenwich Time: journalism world’s smallest gated community
A local real estate agent has written an article for Greenwich Time entitled, “How Can Newcomers to Greenwich Decide Where to Settle?” It might have useful information, though I doubt it, but it’s behind the paper’s paywall and available to subscribers only. Heck, even most people who already live in town won’t pay good money to read that remnant of a newspaper; it’s unlikely that anyone from out of town will.
Maybe Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Glenn Reynolds: Footage outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell during suicide attempt erased, say prosecutors.
The revelation comes after Assistant US Attorney Jason Swergold told White Plains federal Judge Kenneth Karas in December that the footage was missing — and then backtracked the next day, claiming it had been preserved.
In a Thursday filing, Swergold admitted that the Metropolitan Correctional Center had preserved footage amid the investigation — only it was the wrong cell in the Lower Manhattan jail.
“The Government has learned that the MCC inadvertently preserved video from the wrong tier within the MCC, and, as a result, video from outside the defendant’s cell on July 22 – 23, 2019 (i.e. the requested video) no longer exists,” the letter reads.
Sure were a lot of “inadvertent” mistakes here.
UPDATE: More here:
Even worse, there was a backup system for the video footage, but that wasn’t working, either.
“The requested video no longer exists on the backup system and has not since at least August 2019 as a result of technical errors,” the prosecutors wrote.
“It is stunning that a video which we asked to be preserved and which the jail should have saved without a request was destroyed. More troubling are the various and inconsistent accounts of what happened to the video. We believe that the video would have strongly corroborated our client’s assertion that he acted appropriately that evening and are deeply disturbed it has disappeared,” Barket wrote in a text.
Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor cop, is facing the death penalty for the murders prosecutors allege were linked to a drug deal gone bad with a Mexican cartel. The footage could potentially be useful to Barket if he must argue to a jury Tartaglione does not deserve the death penalty.
Placed in a cell with a murderer linked to a Mexican drug cartel? Between the Afghanistan papers revelation of the duplicity of our senior military officers and the exposure of the FBI and CIA as tools of the deep state, it really isn’t that hard to believe in a conspiracy to silence this man. Or at least, it’s no longer inconceivable.
34 Upland Road, down to $1.750 million, which is what it sold for 3 owners ago in 2003. It’s in the private school district (public schools Glenville and Western) and has always been slow to sell, but it does eventually find a buyer. That process took 487 days in 2003, and it took about a year in 2008 ($2.150) and again in 2011 ($2.3). It started off this time at $2.775 million in 2018, a peculiar pricing strategy that I’d attribute more to the owner’s choice of Tamar Lurie as listing agent than to actual value, but it has a new agent now, and a new price. This might do it.
Water flows downhill, in my experience
Expiration date January 31st
66 Valleywood Road, Cos Cob, asking $1.098, has a contract after 253 days on market (DOM). Sold in 2017 for $1.405 (79 DOM), and in 2007 for $1,312,500 (32 DOM).
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