Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
396 Round Hill Road, sold for $8.250. Started at $9.5 back in May 20, but still a substantial sum, obviously; the high-end market is back.
The pictures have been stripped from the web, as is common these days, but here are some from its 2011 listing, when it sold for $7 million. It’s my experience that these houses don’t really change much, other than a new back country decorator being brought in and switching the curtains and zebra skins.
15 Heusted Drive, Old Greenwich, dropped its price again today to $1.495, down from an original ask of $1.695. According to its tax card, these owners paid $1.3 for it in October 2020, and from what I can see from the improvements list, they painted it and hung some curtains. Where did that $1.695 figure come from? For that matter, what’s with $1.495? The fact that, at the owners’ insistence, the price is dropping $100,000 every week suggests that the agent missed on her number and is reluctant to admit that.
The house is located in the AE flood zone, and is well below the required 13’. Heusted does flood, from time to time, even without help from a mythical global warming sea level rise. UPDATE/CORRECTION: Readers tell me that Heusted does NOT flood. That’s not my memory, but I don’t live there, so I’ll defer to their experience.
And the lot itself, like most on Heusted, is undersized: 7,405 square feet, instead of the 12,000 required in the R-12 zone. Grandfathering ensures that it can stay, but it can’t be expanded from its current 2,100 sq. ft., and improvements are restricted.
Heusted is a great neighborhood, close to the Village, the school, and the train, and someone is bound to want to live here. It’s that original price I wonder at; this new one will certainly help.
UPDATE: I’ve heard from several readers who defended both this neighborhood (no argument there) and the house itself, which I get: at this price, there’s very little inventory that can compete. As for that initial price, I’m told that three separate agencies were brought in, and all three came up with the $1.7 figure. The market has proved those “experts” wrong, but it’s not the owners’ fault for listening to them, and good for the owners to insist on a quick correction.
after midnight in washington square park
“we’re gonna let it all hang out, we’re gonna chug-a-lug and shout
The destruction of our cultural norms continues. Mayor de Blasio says “nothing to see here”, others disagree.
Liberals are tearing down their cities, and because I don’t live close to one, I say let ‘em burn. Just don’t tax me to rebuild them.
We’re gonna cause talk and suspicion, give an exhibition
8 Lockwood Road, an 1872 farmhouse, was listed at $2.175 May 24. Once the smoke cleared a few days later, the deal was done, and it closed yesterday at $2.5 million.
Gosh.
Liberals Melt Down After Jon Stewart Hilariously Makes the Case for Lab Leak Theory
“So, I will say this,” Stewart said. “And I honestly mean this. I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to science. Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of this pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science.”
Stewart joked about the theory that the virus naturally evolved through animals. “Uh, a pangolin kissed a turtle?…Maybe a bat flew into the cloaca of a turkey and then it sneezed into my chili and now we all have coronavirus?”
He made the point of the interesting coincidence that the place of origin of the virus would be near the lab looking into such things. “There’s been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania, what do you think happened? I don’t know, maybe a steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean? Or it’s the f**king chocolate factory!”
Colbert then tried to say it was a conspiracy theory by attacking Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). “And how long have you worked for Senator Ron Johnson?”
But Stewart wasn’t having any of it, “This is not a conspiracy!” He also went on to say that sometimes scientists don’t know when to stop, “I love them and they do such good work but they are going to kill us all.”
(Check link for reactions)
I don’t watch any of these shows, but then websites I visit have been reporting on an incredible (for him) number of Bill Maher’s condemnation of the liberal agenda, including cancel culture and, in this instance, “progressophobia”.
Bill Maher Torches Liberals For Refusing To Acknowledge How Far America Has Come
If you think America is more racist now than ever, more sexist than before women could vote and more homophobic than when blow jobs were a felony, you have #Progressophobia and you should adjust your mask because its covering your eyes. #BY pic.twitter.com/qFUFwO3eNJ
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) June 12, 2021
But wait, there’s more! “I know free college is a left-wing thing, but is it really liberal for someone who doesn’t go to college and makes less money to pay for people who do go and make more?”
247 Riverside Avenue, $5.6 million, 9 days. How’s the spring-almost summer market doing? Well, the owners tried for $5.795 million from May, 2019 through December 20, 2020, without success. It came back on in May of this year at $5.595, and poof! Mini-bidding war, and gone in 60 seconds.
Not a huge profit here; in fact, after commissions and taxes, probably a slight loss, because they paid $5.3 for it in 2011, and probably netted around $5.2 (ish) on this sale. But they did get 11 years of use over that period, so there’s that. Their Mercedes probably fared worse.
This just happened at the @Walgreens on Gough & Fell Streets in San Francisco. #NoConsequences @chesaboudin pic.twitter.com/uSbnTQQk4J
— Lyanne Melendez (@LyanneMelendez) June 14, 2021
Who told you a stupid paper mask would protect you against an aerosol in the first place? Dummy.
There’s no reason to wear a face mask if you’ve been vaccinated. No relief for the poor suffering kids, yet, but at least the Supermarket Karens may back down, a little.
Get a vaccine. If you get a vaccine, you don't have to worry about unvaccinated people, because you have the vaccine. I am vaccinated. You may not be vaccinated. But you don't pose a risk to me because I am vaccinated. So if you are vaccinated, what do you worry about? The only question is the effective rate of the vaccine, which is 80-90%, whatever it is. So if you're concerned about that, get a vaccine. 'Well, there will be unvaccinated people.' That's their problem. They have to worry about catching COVID, not you.
Freedom of choice, assumption of risk — such novel concepts
Who practiced on ladies alone
In a fit of depravity
He filled the wrong cavity
And my, how his practice has grown!
A feature, not a bug: with room for just two car seats, population growth will be curtailed, and your children won’t be exposed to their friends’ covid bugs
German carmakers reimagining car “ownership”.
Volkswagen recently announced that it plans on making massive amounts of money by introducing more vehicles with over-the-air updates (OTAs), many of which will be able to store and transfer personal profiles so that users can effectively just rent their vehicles for eternity. Additionally, VW has suggested future models will have ability to lock features (that have already been physically installed) behind a paywall that users can unlock via subscription services — things like heated seats, satellite navigation, or even the vehicles top speed.
“In the future, our customers will buy, lease, share or rent cars just for a weekend, and we can use software to provide them with whatever they need over the air,” VW brand’s sales chief Klaus Zellmer said during an online presentation held on Tuesday. “The ID family has been designed for further development, with OTA updates to improve the software’s performance and tailor it to our customers’ needs.”
Other German automakers have pitched (or introduced) similar concepts over the last few years and it smacks of the terror that is the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” — a plan which envisions a near future were the general populace owns nothing and giant multinational corporations (and their heirs) effectively hold all the cards. It’s the kind of thing one might call you an unhinged conspiracy theorist for believing, until you head over to the WEC’s website to read a dozen or so articles explaining exactly how it’s to be implemented or notice that most Western governments seem to be pushing some variant of the “Build Back Better” campaign. The plot is often the same and hinges upon prioritizing stringent social controls, increased government spending, collaborating with large businesses/banks, and enhanced surveillance in exchange for some vague promises about public safety and environmental reform.
This ties in what I’ve been thinking about for a while now. Particularly on long –over a couple of hundred miles — trips, but also for the millions of car owners who live in cities and park on the street, or who can’t access a charger at work, electric cars will be useless. Yet, according to our masters, manufacturer of Internal combustion cars will cease by 2035, latest, and car makers will certainly have mostly switched to electric by 2030 — 8 1/2 years from now. I envision a massive rental fleet owned by the manufacturers themselves or, morel likely, Blackstone and its Wall Street peers, that will initially be parked at interstate highways. Drivers will pay upfront for their trip and switch cars with charged batteries every 3-4 hours or so: a 21st Century Pony Express.
From there, rental lots will spread through our cities, and by 2050, or sooner, the next generation will be further in thrall of the financiers.
Of course, they won’t own their own houses either, so they’ll be used to it. You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
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