If at first you don't succeed ...

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630 North Street (no link) spent some time on the market last fall at $3.950 million but found no buyers and the listing was allowed to expire. But listing agent Yasmin Lloyds kept her clients, and when an agent from Hooligans & Lawyers surfaced with a buyer last month a deal was struck off the MLS and the house sold yesterday for $3.850.

That price isn’t a huge home run — the sellers paid $3.225 for it in 2006 — but it’s not bad for a property with the Merritt Parkway as its backyard neighbor.

Here are some pictures from the expired listing:

Life in the jungle:

So, Joey came to Greenwich to extoll his handlers' new Black Outreach plan.

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And Dan Quigley was there

Jubilee Day for the Democrat’s wards. Despite rumors to the contrary, sources tell FWIW that Dan Quigley did not join his pro-Hamas friends on the King Street picket line, but was at the party itself on Sherwood Avenue, albeit it as a volunteer traffic coordinator and canape server for his betters. Nice to see that he’s continuing his civic involvement even after being being booted from the Republican Town Committee for his abandonment of principle.

We're back, I suppose UPDATED

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cheering destruction

The Trump verdict, signaling as it does the complete collapse of our criminal law and judicial system, was so dispiriting that I just took a brief leave of absence from the news and from blogging. Personally, see the verdict as a watershed moment in our country’s history, and the decline of what made us great will only accelerate from here; I don’t see how we can reclaim what was once a great country.

So the hell with it, and let’s go with some humor instead of doom and gloom. Like this:

Dan Quigley meets his new friends

UPDATE: I just saw this letter to the editor from one Daniel Quigley, former chairman of the Greenwich Republican Town Committee and still active in town politics. You can read it for yourself, if you care to, as the perfect example of what a useful idiot sounds like.

New construction sale on Widgeon Way

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23 Widgeon Way, sold to Rye buyers at its full asking price of $4.595 million. Technically, this is still the 1955 home sold to this builder in 2022 for $1.975 million (on an asking price of $1.395), but the doesn’t seem to be much left of the original. Interesting to note that that listing described the house/building lot as being located “in a neighborhood with $3 million+ sales”. Turns out, that was very much “plus”.

Remarks: Amazing Opportunity in Prime Neighborhood with $3m+ Sales. Situated up on a knoll in the center of quiet Widgeon Way, this in-town property is one of the largest lots (and backyards) on the street, lined with mature trees and gardens. Also it has close proximity to shopping, restaurants and schools. This 1950's ranch can be renovated for single floor living, added on to by going up or out, or replaced with a 5000+sq.ft. home. Entry leads to living room with wood burning fireplace, dining room, screened in back porch and eat-in kitchen. It includes primary ensuite bedroom, and two additional bedrooms and bath, partial finished basement and two car garage. Sold as is.

Too modest a cut?

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After 35 days on the market, 8 Park Avenue — the Greenwich park Avenue, not the one in Old Greenwich – has had its price cut (or “improved”, as a good friend of mine recently describe her own listing’s new, lowered price from $3.875 million to $3.725, a 4% difference. Park Avenue is a great street in a great location, even if some might disagree with the listing agent’s claim that it’s “in downtown Greenwich”, and this 1918 home has been pretty nicely renovated, so if it hasn’t found a buyer after a month, in this market, there may be more to this demonstrated buyer resistance than a mere $100,000.

Just my opinion, of course, and maybe this cut will in fact do the trick.

Pending after 14 days

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50 Highmeadow Road, $2.650 million. Funny story: when this group of houses was being constructed back in the early 2000s, either its developer or the listing agent (I forget which) told me that they’d been building on every-other lot as they went along, and having hard time selling them. One day a NYC couple came to see them and the wife asked, “what’s going to go up on that empty lot next door?” Told that it would be another house, she exclaimed, “Oh! Thank goodness; it feels like Little House on the Prairie the way it is now.” Realizing that city folks didn’t want more than a 1/4 of land, the developer shifted his advertising to the NYC market from the local area he’d expected to draw his buyers from, and sold out almost immediately.

Is there a lesser order of the Darwin Award Hall of Fame? UPDATED

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Man Charged With Driving On Suspended License Calls Into Court While Driving On Suspended License

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – After a man was charged with driving on a suspended license, he appeared virtually in court – while driving.

The man attended his hearing via Zoom on May 15 before Judge Cedric Simpson in Washtenaw County’s 14A District Court.

Upon joining the hearing, the 44 year-old man appeared to be driving a vehicle. When Simpson asked the defendant if he was driving, the defendant responded that he was pulling into his doctor’s office. The judge then waited for the man to stop and park the vehicle.

“I’m looking at his records and he doesn’t have a license,” Simpson said. “He’s suspended and he’s just driving… "

He took a long pause. “I don’t even know why he would do that.”

Simpson revoked his bond and ordered that he turn himself into the Washtenaw County jail that day.

“Oh my God,” the man sighs.