Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
Whoah, y’all ain’t got yo jab yet? That be dangerous, niggah! So here’s a shot fo you.
You're More Likely to Get Murdered in Chicago Than Be Hospitalized for COVID-19
18 murders per 100,000 gang bangers, 2.9 senior citizen hospitalizations per 100,00), Delta variant or no Delta variant.
Remember, black lives matter!
Joe Barbieri’s just listed 48 Clapboard Ridge Road on the market for $8.9 million. 2015 construction on 3 acres, and designed by Doug Vanderhorn, who does a very nice house.
Joe’s Zebra is busy at another listing, but I’m sure that if this property lingers he’ll retrieve the poor, tired old thing and bring it here, along with his coveted collection of orange throw pillows. Give the current market, I bet he won’t have to.
Stop, Come back! We’re just looking for the truth, promise!
Doctors alerted police to a rape victim on July 14 after Juan Miranda-Jara walked into Hillcrest Hospital with a 12-year-old girl who was in mid-labor, Fox 23 reported. Miranda-Jara reportedly told police he was the father and was confused about the commotion. Miranda-Jara told police he and the child had been together for the past nine months, according to News 9.
“They walked in just like any other couple would be excited to deliver their newborn child,” Tulsa Police Officer Danny Bean told Fox 23.
Police say they think Miranda-Jara was under the impression he and the 12-year-old would be able to go home after they delivered the child, according to the report.
If a Mexican Sooner acts like a West Virginian, is he guilty of cultural appropriation?
(Via DJ) Connecticut State Employees Cite Climate Change As Reason Not Go Back To The Office Post-Pandemic
Climate-alarmist union leaders in Connecticut are suing the state to avoid going back to work based on the premise that commuting poses risks for the environment.
The suit comes in response to Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont’s announcement in May that government employees must go back to their offices by July 1, as reported by the Connecticut Post. However, staff was also instructed they could telework for as much as 50 percent of the time if a supervisor approves.
Connecticut state employees were allowed to work remotely throughout the pandemic. Unions are dissatisfied with Lamont’s demands, citing climate change as a rationale for wanting to keep raking in taxpayer dollars from the comfort of their homes.
“Many have been able to telework throughout and have been more productive, better for the environment, while protecting against the spread of the virus,” the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition said. “The program has been good for the missions of our agencies, good for the environment, and good for the state’s bottom line.”
However, while the unions banded together to pin their objection on environmentalism concerns, the injunction filed on July 7 against Lamont does not directly reference climate change. Rather, the unions note in the lawsuit that the governor “violated, ignored and effectively abrogated” the prior telework contract by disallowing individuals to work from home more than half the time.
It’s not that these scum suckers accomplish anything meaningful when they’re in their cubicles, but they’ve been off the job and lolling around at home for over a year now, on full pay; if we can’t get rid of them, we should at least make them suffer a little inconvenience.
I won’t embarrass the agent from seventeen years ago, but I was looking at the history of a house that sold today, and came across its previous listing from 2004, when it had sought $3.475 million, and eventually got $2.2775. Here’s how she described it then:
DON'T MISS THIS ONE! COMPLETELY RENOV FROM HEAD TO TOE W/ALL THE BELLS & WHISTLES. OVER 2.3 AC PROFESSIONALLY LNDSCPD. OVER 5000 SQ OF LIV SP. WLK TO BTCC POOL. OVRLKS THE 1ST TEE. VERY PVT YARD SITS UP FROM THE RD AT THE END OF A CUL-DE-SAC. NEW KIT & BTHS & A COMPLETE MAKEOVER.
And above and below, here are the photographs that she used to entice buyers to pay almost four million dollars and to illustrate all that “complete renovation”. There were many reasons for David Ogilvy’s success over the decades, but certainly one of them is that he would never have let pictures like this go out over his name. This agent and her broker were not having a David Ogilvy moment when they put this up.
7 Brook Drive, just a hubcap toss from the I-95 underpass in Greenwich, is currently listed at $2.395 million, and a year after starting off last July at $2.750, reports a contract. I don’t know what the eventual selling price will be, but these owners paid $2.875 for it in 2007, and added a pool.
At what will presumably be a final price in the low $2s, there’s a lot of house here; but the price decline does illustrate that things that are ignored in a bubble, like location, don’t remain irrelevant forvever.
New owners of 1141 King Street propose six, 10,000 sq.ft, homes.
But there’ll be a one-acre solar panel array “to achieve a carbon-neutral development!”
“I don’t think the local fauna would appreciate it,” said commission chair Margarita Alban of the solar array.
So, six huge, Al Gore-sized mansions, but these stewards of the Earth, Mother Gaia’s servants, will bury an acre of land under mined-in-Tibet rare earth solar panels to power the mansions’ microwave ovens. Power for the homes themselves and their owners’ Tesla fleets will have to be imported from off-site sources, the developers’ attorney Tom Heagney (might have) told FWIW, “but that doesn’t diminish the symbolism we’re going for here”.
Is it mean to hope these guys go bust?
1 Palmer Lane, Riverside (corner of Marks and Palmer) priced at $1.599, reports contract after 88 days.
Not much to the house itself; it was built in 1952, and won’t be missed, but the location’s good.
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