Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
46 Sound Beach Avenue, asking $2.295 million. Tastes vary; this one doesn’t suit mine, but who cares? It’s new construction, and that’s important to some buyers.
I do note that the listing’s agent to agent remarks mention, “soundproof windows face the street”.
Exactly.
Sabine Farms Drive is reported pending. It’s 3 building lots on 58 acres, 35 of which are conservation land. Back in September, when the price was cut from $10.1 million to its current $5.9, reader Tulip figured, and I agreed, that three lots @$1.5 per might do it. I’m curious to see if we were close.
I’m also curious to learn who’s so daringas to plan a building up here, in this market.
Alas, not so well. 13 Aiken Road (off the far-northern portion of Rogues Hill), originally listed for $11.975 million in 2006, is now asking $4.250.
Land value for its four acres, according to the town, is $1 million. The structure itself may well be worth something, to somebody. So far, Mr. Somebody hasn’t appeared.
Beam me up, Scotty, please!
Will her mental health handlers ever permit her to smile?
She’s also toting an aluminum water bottle in a nylon backpack. Aluminum has been referred to as “congealed electricity” due to the huge amount of energy consumed in its production. Better a nice, recycled-cardboard water carton, eh Greta? Even a leaky one?
Oh, no, not up there!
Earlier this month FWIW reported that a salad compress of sliced potatoes and cucumbers placed on the forehead was ineffective against the flu, now
doctors in Wales have warned that there is no medical evidence to support the notion that stuffing frozen potatoes up the bum will cure hemorrhoids.
Will nothing beat Kung Flu? Nothing? We’re doomed I tell you, dooomed!
Although perhaps bananas, properly prepared, will save the day.
He’s a waacist, I tell you, a waaaaayst!
Warren to Trump “tear down this wall'
WARREN PROPOSES BILL TO TAKE ALL MONEY FROM TRUMP’S ‘RACIST WALL,’ GIVE TO HHS TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUS.
As Ted Cruz asks, “How exactly would open borders protect us from the potential spread of a worldwide pandemic?”
Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll
Was it just a few weeks ago that another Democrat candidate, Sleepy Joe, branded Trump’s travel ban on Chinese “xenophobic” and “an act that would only make things worse? “ Well yes, yes he did, on January 27th. A condemnation that was joined by the other Democrats, just as a by the way.
State Senator Alexandra Bergstein has changed her name to Alexandra Mochary Kasser:
The Greenwich-based Democrat said she made the legal change in town hall Thursday morning, reflecting her divorce and her heritage.
“I shed the name of the person that I was unhappily married to for over 20 years, and I am disassociating with that person.”
“Disassociating with that person”; that’s pretty harsh, coming from a woman who maintained a lesbian relationship during her marriage; it takes two to tangle, and a lesbian in a heterosexual relationship probably brought some of her own flammables to the dumpster fire of that unhappy marriage.
Oh well, she’s moving on.
Kasser said she’s fine with a reference to her last name as Kasser, not necessarily Mochary Kasser.
“It’s just easier if everybody calls me Senator Alex,” she said.
Maybe Senator Alex and Mayor Pete can soon commiserate on their respective political defeats.
Havana memories
Bernie Sanders praises slave owners for their free housing program
U.S.—In a televised interview, Bernie Sanders has praised slave owners for their free housing program offered to all slaves working the plantations.
"Of course, the slavery was bad, but the slaves were housed, for free I might add, for their entire employment," Sanders said in an interview with 60 Minutes. "So it's unfair to criticize the whole thing. Also, the slaveowners were pretty impressive guys. The plantations were very clean, very nice buildings. I actually honeymooned at one in Virginia back in 1845, and it was an eye-opener for me as to how much propaganda has been used to malign slaveowners and their healthcare, housing, and literacy programs."
Trouble in Riverdale: Feldstone School implodes as parents fight woke teachers
Ethical Culture Fieldston in Riverdale, founded in 1878 by the son of a rabbi as a model for social justice, racial equality and intellectual freedom, now is convulsed by allegations of anti-Semitism, racial discrimination lawsuits, quarrels over identity politics, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department run amok and a unionized faculty impervious to criticism.
Disgruntled parents are considering ways of extracting their children, angry donors are closing their wallets and distraught teachers are resigning or taking leaves of absence.
For some parents, concerns were crystallized when Fieldston students became aware that a YouTube video, “Secrets of the Living Dolls,” featured a new member of the faculty, a self-described “large black man” with a fetish for dressing up as a “sexy white woman” in a lifelike latex mask and breasts.
“I’ve fought for LGBT issues,” says one Fieldston parent, “but this is indicative of the weird things happening around the school which are rooted around intersectionality and an obsession about identity politics and race.”
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One of the most contentious issues at Fieldston has been the introduction of affinity groups, separating children by race. The groups “are rooted in a sociological model of whiteness that completely disregards the lived Jewish experience and, for a community with an above-average population of second- and third- and even first-generation Jews, that was deeply problematic,” said one insider.
“There are relationships with the school that will never be repaired. It really represented a turning point in the trajectory of the school and uncovered a degree of anti-Semitism that Fieldston [previously] has been immune from.”
A mother says the groups were a “pretext … They take kids of color and make them angry … It is the start of the blame culture. White people are to blame. The poison is far-reaching.” Fieldston is paralyzed by “wokeness,” the mother says.
Another member of the community blames “an extreme far-left group of teachers … and the most important identity at the school is being a person of color or gender-nonconforming … Boys and white people are demonized. If you’re a straight white Jewish boy, you’re the worst.”
The political angst at the school spilled over when Donald Trump was elected president. “The school was closed for days,” says one parent. “The first day, teachers didn’t come to class, they protested the second day and the third day there was counseling … What kind of fragile snowflakes are we cultivating that they can’t deal with a presidential election that doesn’t go their way?”
The irony is that the indoctrination appears to be backfiring, with some students quietly adopting conservative views. “Moms were coming to the school crying that their kids were growing up so conservative because that was their rebellion against what was going on with the school,” says one insider.
Okay, all that’s fun reading, but it can’t happen here, right? Well, and take this with a grain of salt because I’m hearing it second, maybe third hand, but a friend tells me that “a Greenwich Country Day parent told me yesterday that the school is about to become aggressively gender-neutral. They plan to enforce gender-neutral clothing, specifically prohibiting belts, for some reason, and the schools will not allow the use of traditional gender pronouns”.
True? I don’t know. Possible? Absolutely; private schools draw from the same pool of college graduates that public schools do, and there’s no reason that the two differ in ideology.
444 Old Church Road, bank-owned and listed at $1.999 million, has a contract. I wrote about this hideous pile of Dryvit on February 11 and I predicted then a long, lingering death on the market. No so.
But who would buy this awful box? Reader JohnM suggested that the town grab it and use the land to redesign the intersection here, and that struck me as a great idea. Another reader thought that GCD buy it, just on general principle, and that might have worked, too. But has a natural-born person actually agreed to part with money to own this place? “Inconceivable”.
UPDATE: Apparently that word doesn’t mean what I think it means. Gideon tells me the property was “the subject of a mad, crazed bidding war, at least five bidders”. He’s as surprised as I am, and I remain gobsmacked.
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