Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
16 Dandy Drive, currently priced at $2.095 million, reports a contract. It’s been kicking around on the market since May, when it began at $2.350, so it’s probably not going for this asked-for price but, these days, who knows?
Dandy Drive houses used to have low prices to compensate for their 1957-58 cheap development feel and build quality; that’s no longer the case. Nice street, however, so perhaps there’s a brighter future here.
61 Indian Head Road, listed in October at $5.790 million, closed yesterday at $6.250.
That’s not entirely an invented question because, although I’ve certainly herd of the moron over the years, I’d never seen his TV show, and I had to look him up just now, querying, “Is Conan O’Brien still on TV?” It turns out that he isn’t — left the medium in 2021, in fact. Surprise, surprise, surprise, as Gomer might say, but hell, it seems to me that he now has plenty of free time to go back to paradise and see if anyone there can use his help.
In any event, over at RedState David Strom points out that Conn is not alone in his indifference:
David Strom, HotAir:
Another day, another atrocity beyond comprehension in Haiti.
So far, according to the ever-reliable United Nations, around 5000 people have been murdered in political violence in Haiti this year, with 184 dying over the weekend because a gang lord decided to go on a killing spree after a VooDoo priest told him that elderly people had cursed his son, causing him to die.
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Haiti has long been in the running for Worst Place on Earth™, although temporary spikes of awfulness in other regions of the world keep it off the top of the list at any one time or another. A war here and an earthquake there may keep Haiti from being the worst place at any one moment, but it is always near the top of the list while others come and go.
It is, in other words, what Trump called it: a "s**thole" country.
I bring up Haiti's problems not to dunk on the poor people of Haiti, the vast majority of whom have committed no crime other than being losers in the lottery of birth location. They didn't ask to be born in Haiti, and I sympathize with their plight. I am damn sure glad I don't live there!
No, the people I want to dunk on are the Trump-obsessed who during Trump's term chose to portray Haiti as the apotheosis of civilization because Trump insulted the country.
Trump's knock on Haiti and other third-world countries was unforgivable to all the "right" people, for whom the greatest sin is to say something that, while true, is politically incorrect.
So they started a campaign: Haiti is Great Already," as a slam to Trump's MAGA.
The fact that Haiti is anything BUT great was totally irrelevant, because reality is defined for these people by their likes and dislikes, nothing so prosaic as "reality." Trump's speaking the truth was unforgivable….
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Ironically, Conan O'Brien and the celebrities who latched onto this issue were using Haiti in precisely the way they accused Trump of doing. All these wealthy white Americans used Haitians as a political prop. As Haitians suffer under terrible conditions, Conan O'Brien sipped rum out of a coconut to "own" Trump.
There obviously is nothing wrong with the impulse to help Haitians--they are human beings and we should feel empathy for them--but the job of the President of the United States is to look out for Americans, not Haitians. Americans, should they choose to, can do their good deeds for the Haitian people, and God bless them for doing so.
But Conan O'Brien and his merry band of lefties aren't helping anyone. They were exploiting Haitians back then to make a political point, which is actually far worse than Trump blurting the truth out loud.
Blunt truths may offend, but they generally give better results. Trump wanted to defend Americans. The lefties? They wanted to massage their own egos, no matter the cost.
Four years of Biden's "compassion" haven't helped Haitians, but they have hurt Americans.
Lose-lose. Except fpr the lefties who feel warm and fuzzy about themselves.
(They didn’t even bother rehanging the shutter on the left. This picture’s from 2020 — the picture below is from 2024)
The owners of 37 Barton Lane in Cos Cob tried unsuccessfully to sell their home in 2019-2020, eventually dropping its price to $920,000 before giving up. They brought it back on the market this past October, untouched but priced at $1.275 million, and sold it yesterday for $1,430,250.
The man formerly known as Prince and his main squeeze have labored long, and produced what critics are calling a steaming pike of barnyard product:
The reviews are in for Prince Harry and Meghan's latest Netflix endeavour Polo, the latest installment of their £80million deal with the streaming service.
But despite the likely high hopes that this would join the ranks of great sport documentaries such as Disney +'s Welcome to Wrexham and 2020's The Last Dance, the series has been panned by critics.
Receiving two stars or less out of five across the board, the five-part show has been labelled 'a tedious inside-look at posh polo' and a 'mostly boring look at a sport that very few people outside of elite circles have any particular interest in'.
…. The Telegraph's Ed Power noted in his two-star review of Polo, the 'bafflingly little' appearance of the Prince in his own series.
'Netflix and Archewell team up for a tedious inside-look at posh polo – and for once, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex don’t hog the limelight,' claimed the critic.
He concluded: 'There’s lots of blood, sweat, and tears in the series – but not enough of the Sussexes to make this anything other than a dull indulgence about a rich person’s pursuit.'
… Critic Joel Keller insisted: 'The first episode was tough to connect with, because it presents a world that not only isn’t very relatable to most people, but is boring to boot.'
And so on; there’s no pleasing some critics. I myself enjoy watching polo games: horses charging at full gallop down a 300-yard field, mallets flashing, collisions, dead, maimed players and geldings (well, that’s redundant); it’s exciting, to me. However, in this modern world of video games, perhaps polo needs a refresher, and for that, our royal couple should have returned to the past, all the way back to that fun-loving model that later English royalty would follow with such success and passionate glee, Uncle Genghis:
The modern game of polo, favorite pastime of English aristocrats and snobbish upper-class wannabes, is usually played with a small ball about the size of a billiard ball, and almost never with a human head or a dead goat. But that's how the sport of king's began thousands of years ago under a different name - "bughazi" (also spelled buzkashi [wiki] - Ed).
In fact, bughazi wasn't so much a leisure activity as military training for Persian cavalry, and it was possibly adopted from tribesmen in what is now modern-day Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Aside from the dead goat factor, there were also other differences in play. Instead of four players on a side, for instance, the ancient version involved armies of men - literally - with hundreds or even thousands of players on each side. In fact, it's believed that the first tournament was won by Turkish tribesmen playing against the Persians in 600 BCE.
And although the game was often played with animal heads, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan made a popular change, instituting the practice of decapitating military opponents and making a game of their noggins, still in their helmets.
Now that would set heads turning.
Perhaps the Times should ask its readers for alternative headlines to describe the death of the Elvis impersonator who was promising to “kill you all”, as the Washington Post did in 2019 after the U.S. caught up with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, notorious terrorist and head of IS, and sent him packing to meet his awaiting virgins. The WaPo’s editors’ own attempt at a headline, “austere religious scholar dies at 48” was applauded by conservatives, who contributed proposed headlines for other public figures:
"Adolf Hitler, dedicated art enthusiast, animal rights activist, and talented orator, dies at 56," read one.
"Ted Bundy, meticulous researcher, charismatic figure, and Polaroid enthusiast, dead at 42", read another, in reference to the infamous serial killer.
These people are creepy af and twice as deadly.
The whole time they smile, chatter away and assure you that their intentions are nothing but benign. The words coming out of their mouths are only the truth, and everyone knows it.
So what's our problem with them?
Well...WHAT words ARE coming out of their mouths is what's problematic. Their words flow as easily as if they were discussing the weather, which is how they act. Breezy, chirpy, and shoulder-shrugging, nonchalant attitudes.
The problem is that the words want people dead.
Along with the people you're trying to influence to do your dirty work.
It's a pretty organized little group of sickos, too, spreading their peculiar brand of intimidation and terrorism, all with a schmear of "But they brought this on themselves" virtue signaling.
Bingley sent me these wanted posters this morning. He found them on his way into the office, plastered on the scaffolding plywood they've got around Federal Hall on Wall Street.
Their populist street cred of 'eating the rich' falls apart as so much larping from children of elites. Those privileged monsters like Lorenz do the gloating and goading while other children of privilege - this assassin was from an enormously wealthy Maryland family - execute people who have risen from humble origins to a position they now deserve to die for, determined, of course, by progressive eyes.
...Thompson was a Hawkeye State success story. He grew up in Jewell, Iowa, a small heartland farming town of 1,200 people about a three-hour drive south from Minneapolis.
His father worked in a rural grain elevator for 40 years, helping farmers unload and store truckloads of grain, according to his father’s obituary. But his father’s happiest times were spent fishing, especially at a gravel pit with Brian and his older brother Mark.
...Thompson was the valedictorian and homecoming king of the class of 1993 at South Hamilton High School, which is surrounded by cornfields and has a student population of roughly 300 in grades 7 through 12.
...He went on to the University of Iowa, where he was the Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key recipient for having the highest grade-point average in his class, according to his LinkedIn bio and the archives of the Daily Iowan student newspaper. Thompson grew up in a family of die-hard Iowa State Cyclone fans, but his father shifted his loyalty to the Hawkeyes, a reflection of his pride in his son, according to a remembrance by the longtime family pastor.
Beege: “This vicious murder is the perfect illustration of everything that is unrecoverably twisted and deranged inside the black holes of progressive psyches.”
The tech reporter appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” on Monday to defend her controversial social media posts celebrating Thompson’s killing.
“Why would you be in such a celebratory mood about the execution of another human being?” Morgan asks the journalist. “Aren’t you supposed to be on the caring, sharing left where, you know, you believe in the sanctity of life?”
Lorenz responds that she does “believe in the sanctity of life” but that is ultimately why “I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately.”
Morgan’s jaw drops at the unexpected response, before he hits back: “Joy!? Serious? Joy at a man’s execution?”
Lorenz then attempts to backtrack, telling Morgan, “Maybe not joy, but certainly not empathy.”
However, the television host continued to grill Lorenz, asking, “How can this make you joyful? This guy is a husband, he’s a father, and he’s been gunned down in the middle of Manhattan. Why does that make you joyful?”
Lorenz, seeming to become more worked up again over her stance, tells Morgan, “So are the tens of thousands of Americans that he murdered!”
“So are the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans, who died because greedy health insurance executives like this one push a policy of denying care to the most vulnerable people, and I am a part of the many millions of Americans that have watched people that I care about suffer and in some cases die because of lack of health care,” she argues.
Morgan then asks if all the health care executives should be killed, wondering if that would make Lorenz “even more joyful.”
Lorenz breaks into laughter, telling Morgan, “Uh, no.” He then shoots back, “Well, why not? Why are you laughing? You seem to find the whole thing hilarious. A bloke’s been murdered in the street. I don’t find it funny at all.”
“I don’t find it funny that tens of thousands of Americans die every year because they are denied life-saving health care from people like the CEO,” Lorenz says, later noting that while she does not think vigilante justice is the way to solve the issue, it’s a “good thing” the murder has highlighted persistent problems with health care in America.
I wonder if Tay-tay’s parents will be as “shocked and dismayed” at her ultimate arrest as Luigi Mangione’s were.
52 Shore Road, originally a one-room school house built in 1800, hit the market in late October at $3.395 million, attracted numerous offers, and has been reported sold this morning for $5.550 million. On 0.41 of an acre in the R-12 zone, its present 1,916 sq. ft. could theoretically be replaced by a new home of 5,625 sq. ft. My guess is that that’s what’s going to happen, because nobody pays this kind of money to squeeze into < 2,000 sq. ft.
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December 5, 2024 (Greenwich, CT) - The Greenwich Association of REALTORS® announces the statistics for home sales for the month of November 2024 according to figures provided by the Greenwich Multiple Listing Service, Inc. The Greenwich MLS and greenwich.realestate is the most accurate and comprehensive resource of active inventory and property listing data across all five zip codes of the Town of Greenwich.
Single-Family Home Sales
There were 39 single-family residential closings reported across all areas of Greenwich during the month of November 2024. This was a decrease, compared to November 2023 when there were 40 closings.
The Median Sale Price for a single-family home increased 13.03% to $2,255,000 from the median sales price in November 2023, which was $1,995,000.
The average Days On Market (DOM) for residential homes was 65 days; which was a 17.72% decrease from 79 days in November 2023.
There were 14 new single-family listings brought to the market in November 2024, which is a 48.15% decrease in New Listings when compared to November 2023 when there were 27. At month-end, Active single-family inventory totaled 131 units, which is a 12.7% decrease from November 2023 when there were 150 units available. [bolding added]
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