Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
543 Stanwich Road, $17.5 million asked, $16.2 million achieved. A brief look at the owner’s resume suggests that he could (a) afford to wait; and (b) could accept any number he wished to once he grew bored with waiting. That must be a nice position to be in.
at least they didn’t waste money on an architect
44 Amherst Road, “Riverside”, new construction, $3.2 million. The builder paid $865,000 for the existing house in January 2024, which points out the futility of the town’s affordable housing “plan” — the formerly-affordable neighborhoods in Greenwich, and Amherst Road was certainly in one of them, are gone and won’t be back. A dozen or so single bedroom apartments won’t make a dent.
A spec house at 20 Edgar Road has sold to a buyer from Bedford (10549 Zip) for $5.630 million. The developers paid just $2.5 million for 17 acres here in 2021 — it had started at $5.9 in 2020 — and still have two building lots left, so it would seem that they’ll do well.
David Strom:
By now you all know how absurdly propagandistic the Pravda Media have become, but sometimes the propaganda rises to the absurd level of a Babylon Bee parody. This is one of those times.
The Associated Press’s coverage and that of its slavish followers like ABC News all glossed over the full details of this vandal’s attacks, but I did find this:
Authorities in Loveland arrested Lucy Grace Nelson, 40, just before midnight on Monday, Feb. 24, the Loveland Police Department said in a news release.
Nelson was apprehended by detectives at the Loveland Tesla dealership Monday evening, and was discovered to be carrying incendiary devices, police said.
Police initiated an "extensive investigation" on Jan. 29 after the dealership was vandalized “several times." Incendiary devices were also discovered at the premises.
The dealership has been vandalized 5 times since Jan. 29, 9News reports.
In the first incident on Jan. 29, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at a Cybertruck, according to an arrest affidavit viewed by 9News. Then on Feb. 2, the outlet reports, someone spray painted "Nazi" on a Tesla sign close to the street
On Feb. 7, the affidavit reportedly states, four to five Molotov cocktails were hurled at vehicles on the property. On Feb. 11, per the affidavit 9News viewed, a security guard removed someone from the dealership while they were in the process of spray painting the words "F*** Musk."
Finally, on Feb. 18, the word "nazi" was spray painted on the building and about 15 vehicles on the lot, per the affidavit cited by 9News.
Mind you, you have to get away from the state’s propaganda arm and over to X and other true news sources outside legacy media to find out who this creature is.
More on Justin here:
A radical trantifa activist has been arrested in Loveland, Colo. for allegedly carrying out a series of violent attacks on @Tesla property using incendiary devices.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 27, 2025
Lucy Grace Nelson, a man, has been incorrectly booked into the jail as a "female" by @LarimerSheriff. I can… pic.twitter.com/TLDpCVcMlN
The AP has the gall to post this solicitation for cash on its stories:
Someone who’s been graciously shown into our country, fed, housed and provided free medical care is going to be loyal to the democratic party: who knows where some self-made billionaire’s loyalties lie?
"Mr. Musk has just been here 22 years," Kaptur said outside the Capitol on Wednesday. "And he’s a citizen of three countries. I always ask myself the question, with the damage he’s doing here, when push comes to shove, which country is his loyalty to? South Africa? Canada? Or the United States? And he’s only been a citizen, I’ll say again, 22 years."
Kaptur, 78, previously signed onto a House resolution in 2019 condemning President Trump for alleged xenophobic comments.
This resolution states that immigrants and their descendants have made America stronger and naturalized citizens are just as American as those whose families have been in the United States for generations. It also expresses a commitment to keep America open to those who lawfully seek refuge from violence and oppression and those willing to work hard to achieve the American Dream, regardless of race, ethnicity, faith, or country of origin.
All of three houses in Riverside and Old Greenwich on the tour today, two new listings, one old chestnut: 5 Cathlow Drive in Riverside is new, priced at $6.495 million; 28 Tomac Avenue, Old Greenwich, new and asking $3.5 million; and an Old Greenwich listing dating back to June 2024, 7 Maple Drive, $1.875.
At least you won’t have to spend your entire weeking looking over the inventory.
last refuge of a scoundrel
This federal worker is confident that she could get a job in the private sector tomorrow, which is great. Still, she's tearful, because she was a patriot who loved her country, as we're sure all her colleagues were. Well, that is sad news, but the country has decided your services aren't needed right now. As a patriot, certainly she's happy to see some of the fat cut out of the bloated federal bureaucracy.
…. According to her, she'd make a whole lot more money, seeing as these government jobs "don't pay us." They're practically volunteers because of their patriotism. She could enlist in the military and keep her country safe that way
Federal worker starts crying about losing her job, says she could get a job in the private sector but she just cares too much about her country.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 26, 2025
The moment came as fired federal workers went to Senate offices to "tell their stories."
"We've never had an issue with our… pic.twitter.com/ZJ5i9DcMMS
Her tragedy and tale of self-sacrifice was not universally met with sympathy.
240 Greenwich Avenue
From 60 units, 18 of which would have been “affordable”, to 40, back up to 60, and now down to 12, all luxury units. Our P&Z sides with the opposing neighbors, again, and shrinks a housing project down to a size that inevitably drives prices higher and out of reach for the “ordinary poor” such as lawyers and dentists.
There’s nothing new here; in fact it’s the same old story repeated again and again. Here’s one from just last week concerning the thwarted Mason Street project:
Cut a project’s size from 92 units to 74, demand that 1/3 of those be “affordable”, while also demanding that they are built to the same size as the market rate units, and eliminate any ground-floor retail use that could help subsidize the project. That’s a recipe for making any such project too impractical to build, and I assume that’s the intention.
GREENWICH — The Planning & Zoning Commission is being sued by developers over conditions it imposed on approvals for two large residential buildings on Mason Street that were authorized by the commission in December.
The lawsuit seeks to overturn the conditions and grant approval for the project with retail space and no restrictions on the size of the affordable units.
Mason Street Partners and developer Joshua Caspi say the conditions that the commission imposed went against state law 8-30g, which is designed to provide the community with affordable housing units. The law states projects offering affordable housing units, as the Mason Street development has been proposing, can only be denied or modified on "health and public safety" issues.
The lawsuit contends that the conditions imposed on the approvals — eliminating any retail space from the project and requiring that the affordable units be nearly identical in size as the market-rate units — ran counter to the state law and should be invalidated.
…. The long-running and controversial project was resubmitted to the Planning Commission in November, with a reduced number of total units in both buildings on Mason Street set at 75, down from 92 in an earlier draft. The 24 affordable units were evenly distributed in the two buildings.
During review, the commission went into a lengthy discussion about "comparability," seeking to ensure that the affordable units did not carry any perception that they were of lesser value or quality. Commissioners said they wanted to avoid any perception of "a rich door, poor door," in the phrase that came up during discussions of the application.
As part of its condition for approval, the commission required that the affordable units would have to be no less than 90% of the size of the market-rate units. The commission also said there could be no retail space in the buildings, which would have taken up around 4% of the total square footage of the new construction.
“The smallest affordable units in the Mason Street development would be larger than most of the condo units on the market in Greenwich at full price.”
The developers in their suit took issue with the requirement for "comparability."
According to the legal complaint filed last month, "Mason Street Partners responded to this concern by pointing out that comparability is not a health or safety concern," the lawsuit stated. In addition, the developers claimed, earlier court rulings held that "comparability was 'a matter of opinion' that cannot be a basis of denial.” Further, they stated, the smallest affordable units in the Mason Street development would be larger than most of the condo units on the market in Greenwich at full price.
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The loss of retail, as well as the requirement to make the affordable units substantially larger relative to the size of the market-rate units, would cause a financial strain for the project, the developers argued.
“Affordable” new housing can’t be built without subsidies — the cost of construction is too high (you can’t even accomplish it in Maine, where land costs in most parts is negligible) — so either those seeking cheap housing will have to settle for older, less desirable units, or someone has to buy new ones for them. Why a handful of lucky people should be handed winning lottery tickets is a question best left to liberals to ponder in their Episcopalian Sunday coffee klatches, but, really, “we don’t want to stigmatise the poor by putting them in units smaller than their rich neighbors”? I call bullshit: it’s about preserving and even increasing property values, and if reducing the number of units makes a project unbuildable, great; and even if it just drives the prices of unsubsidized units higher, that’s acceptable too.
The miasma of hypocrisy oozing from these commission hearings is nauseating.
“China love america!”
PBS @NewsHour came into my office begging for more taxpayer money today.
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) February 26, 2025
They handed me a mug labeled ‘Made in Texas’… but it was actually made in China.
Just like their programming, it's all a façade. We’re done funding left-wing propaganda. pic.twitter.com/rORBX9wgR3
In 2021, the Canadian government allotted a reported $320 million for a Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund, which was intended to investigate allegations that hundreds of children were killed and buried in "unmarked graves" by Catholics and other Christian groups.
From the Daily Wire:
The committee and organization's entire existence is based on the notion that hundreds of children were killed at residential schools and buried in unmarked graves - a narrative that has seemingly fallen apart. The initial claims in 2021 led to apologies, riots, and the vandalism or burning of 55 Canadian churches…
No bodies have ever been found. That's right — none. Not "fewer than expected," not "just a couple"... ZERO. But that didn't stop people from protesting, rioting, and burning dozens of churches to the ground.’The committee and organization's entire existence is based on the notion that hundreds of children were killed at residential schools and buried in unmarked graves - a narrative that has seemingly fallen apart. The initial claims in 2021 led to apologies, riots, and the vandalism or burning of 55 Canadian churches…
But wait — There’s More!
Despite the lack of supporting evidence, a bill was introduced in Canada’s federal parliament last month that would criminalize statements that deviate from the prevailing narrative on residential schools.
Register StaffNewsOctober 18, 2024
Three years after controversy erupted across Canada and internationally over “mass graves” allegedly located near the residential schools for Indigenous children that once operated in Canada, evidence continues to accumulate that these claims lack any factual foundation.
This comprehensive absence of substantiation was highlighted in an Oct. 14 article by Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, titled “Canada’s Unproven Mass-Grave Scandal.” The article referenced a bill that was introduced last month in the House of Commons of Canada that would criminalize “condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying the Indian residential school system in Canada through statements communicated other than in private conversation.”
The initial allegation regarding the discovery of unmarked graves was made in May 2021 in Kamloops, British Columbia. Based on the findings of a ground-penetrating radar survey of an orchard located beside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Rosanne Casimir, chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, issued a press release stating the survey had provided “confirmation of the remains of 215 children” who had been students at the school and whose deaths there had been undocumented.
But in late May of this year, Canadian journalist Terry Glavin reported in the National Post that Casimir has now dropped the central element of her claim regarding the ground-penetrating radar survey’s findings. In a press release commemorating the third anniversary of her 2021 statement, Casimir omitted her previous reference to dead children, stating only there had been “confirmation of 215 anomalies.”
In fact, the ground-penetrating radar had merely identified “anomalies” under the surface of the Kamloops site. Such anomalies indicate only that some kind of soil disturbance has occurred, not the definite presence of any human bodies. Despite this uncertainty, until this year the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation declined to acknowledge that the existence of children’s graves was unproven.
Glavin’s National Post article noted that the First Nation’s leadership has been aware of the flaws associated with its ground-radar survey since at least 2022, when they received an independent site analysis of historical activity that took place at the site since the residential school was founded in 1890. And according to a June 2023 article in The Dorchester Review, a Canadian journal that has published a number of articles challenging the prevailing narrative regarding the government-funded residential schools that were operated by the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations, it should have been evident even before they were released that the Kamloops findings were highly questionable. That’s because readily accessible archival records documented that trenches, lined with clay tiles, had been dug at the site as a septic field in 1924, and it’s known that such trenches can’t be distinguished from graves by ground-penetrating radar.
No Proof Elsewhere
In the weeks following the May 2021 statement regarding the Kamloops school’s graves, similar claims were made in connection with other former residential schools in British Columbia and in other Canadian provinces. By July of that year, it was alleged that a total of more than 1,300 unmarked graves had been discovered via ground-penetrating radar surveys.
Because the Catholic Church oversaw the majority of Canada’s government-funded residential schools, which operated from the late 1800s until the last one closed in 1996, these allegations triggered a wave of anti-Catholic violence. In the summer of 2021 more than 60 churches, most of them Catholic, were burned to the ground or vandalized, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for Pope Francis to apologize personally. The controversy impelled the Pope to make a “pilgrimage of reconciliation” to Canada the following year, during which he apologized, without specifically referencing the mass graves claims, for any harm the schools had caused to the nation’s Indigenous peoples.
“An important part of this process will be to conduct a serious investigation into the facts of what took place in the past and to assist the survivors of the residential schools to experience healing from the traumas they suffered,” Francis said at that time.
The only completed excavation to date was conducted in 2023 at Pine Creek, Manitoba, where a ground-radar survey had identified anomalies in the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church, located close to the former Pine Creek Residential School. No human remains were found during that excavation.
People came from around the world to apologize for the White Man’s sins and get a little publicity while they were there.
July, 2022:
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