Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
19 Dingletown Rd
19 Dingletown road, sold via a bidding war for $2.320 million on a $2.195 asking price. Listed on January 6, it went immediately. Unlike our higher price ranges, the low $2 inventory is thin, and this was clearly superior to most of its competition.
141 Bedford Road
And 141 Bedford Road also sold quickly, for $1.3 million. Five acres and a perfectly decent house, I can see its appeal; not everyone wants to live on a quarter-acre in an overpriced house.
“Don’t worry, Mike, I’m behind you all the way” Scott Srebnick for the defense; sort of. To a degree. Until he says otherwise. Kachoo!
Fraudster Michael Avenatti’s attorney is scared to visit him at the dirty and dangerous Metropolitan Correctional Center — because he fears the lockup could be a coronavirus hotbed.
In a letter, Avenatti lawyer Scott Srebnick asked a Manhattan judge to delay by 30 days a pre-sentencing interview he was scheduled to attend between Avenatti and probation officials at the MCC.
Srebnick highlighted unsanitary conditions at the MCC … as a potential breeding ground for coronavirus.
“Mr. Avenatti’s cell was infested with rats. The jail reeks or urine. As of yesterday, Mr. Avenatti had not shaved in weeks. Meanwhile, across the country, public officials are declaring states of emergency as a result of the spread of the coronavirus,” Srebnick wrote.
“Health officials are uncertain of the actual risks. And, by all accounts, a prison facility poses among the highest risks of spread of infection,” he added.
“Given the uncertainty regarding the coronavirus, the ease with which it spreads, and the documented unsanitary conditions at the MCC-New York, I am requesting that the … background interview be adjourned,” he wrote.
So Attorney Srebnick knows of the intolerable conditions his client is enduring at the MCC but wants to put off a hearing that might shorten his time there because Srebnick might get sick? Avenatti’s not going to be freed for a long time, but the faster he’s out of our government’s torture jail and into a prison the better for him.; hell, Harvey Weinstein’s already up in Fishkill, just a couple of days after his conviction.
You’re gonna need a bigger retainer, Mike, and a bigger lawyer.
Brian, you ignorant slut
Dow’s down 30% and undoubtedly headed lower. Gold bugs must be feeling smug, but who would sell stock now to finance a house purchase? On the other hand, if you’re liquid, there should be some real bargains coming in houses whose owners can’t afford to await the rebound.
Interesting times.
UPDATE: Eagle-eyed brother Anthony points out that our grandfather John Gilbert is the subject of the really important story in Variety that day, ‘Kidding Kissers”. I believe Gilbert kept his money during the ensuing depression — hell, MGM was paying him $500,000 a year — but conniving lawyers, crooked judges, and a larcenous fifth (?) wife grabbed hold of his estate and ensured that his deserving grandchildren woukd have to work for a living well into their dotage.
I hate when that happens!
A frequent plot element in dystopian end-of-world novels is a massive prison break, releasing a flood of brutal murderers and thieves loose on the countryside. California liberals must have read them.
Liberals call for emptying out prisons to fight Hu Foo Flu
Multiple left-leaning organizations have called for governments to respond to the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus by mass releasing prisoners, reducing arrests, and limiting immigration enforcement.
136 Parsonage Road is back on the market after a month off and remains priced at $5.695 million, which is considerably lower than the $8.295 it originally asked for in April 2017.
Whatever they ultimately get for this property the owners have surely lost money. They paid $4.2 for its 2.69 acres and a tear-down in 2007 (ah, the glory days), then built a 10,845 sq.ft. custom home with pool, guest house, and tennis court, and put in a geothermal system. Even at, say, a $5.5 sale price, that allows a budget of $1.3 for all that, less transaction costs. I don’t think even Mara Gay can make that math work out.
Interestingly, I see that in 2015 the town appraised this at $1.557, land, $3.905 structure, for a total of $5,462,900. That seemed low at the time, now it seems prescient.
Math are hard — and waaasist!
Appearing on MSNBC’s “11th Hour” last week, [New York Times editorial board member Mara] Gay and host Brian Williams engaged in a back-and-forth about how former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg conceivably could have given every American $1 million with the $500 million he spent on his failed presidential campaign. [calculating with racist old math yields a figure of $1.43]
Both Gay and Williams were predictably raked over the coals. Responding to the backlash, Gay wrote a New York Times op-ed Wednesday, then tweeted it out with the claim that a “racist Twitter mob” came at her for “a trivial math mistake.”
My People Have Been Through Worse Than a Twitter Mob,” the headline read above the subheader: “When you’re a black woman in America with a public voice, a trivial math error can lead to a deluge of hate.”
“Unfortunately, quite a few Americans can tell you what it’s like to be the target of a Twitter mob over a gaffe,” Gay wrote. “My great sin was trivial, harmless, silly. What’s it like when people are trying to cancel you for a math mistake? Weird, and maddening and painful.”
“Of course, in my case it wasn’t really about math, as anyone who read through my mentions on Twitter or saw my inbox would know,” she wrote before listing several examples of racist responses. (RELATED: ‘She Learned Young That Crying Racism Pays’ — Tucker Blasts Omar’s Racism Charge And Her Attempts To Silence Him)
Numerous Twitter users were quick to say their mockery had absolutely nothing to do with race, particularly because Brian Williams, a white male, received his share as well.
The same racist Twitter mob was quick to attack her again:
A young black woman with no noticeable talent is elevated to an editorial position at what was once the country’s preeminent paper and now complains that she’s being criticized because of the color of her skin. What’s next, a professorship at Harvard? The Senate? A run for the presidency?
This is the last time, I mean it
It probably wasn’t Bernie.
The ostensibly broke Hunter Biden reaches “a global, final settlement” with his baby mama
The owners of 170 Old Mill Road bought it for $4.9 million in November 2015 from a person who’d paid $8.5 for it when it was new in 2006. You’d think it should have held its value with that kind of discount, but no: these owners priced it at $5.495 this past September, and as of today it’s asking $4.450.
It’s a soft market up there north of the Merritt.
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