Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
88 Cedar Cliff Road, Riverside, started at a hefty $25.5 — add the extra 5 for value — million in April, 2022, and today dropped to $13.995. It’s a fabulous house, on an excellent street, and I’m surprised it didn’t sell at one of the other, higher price points before this.’
But it didn’t; that initial price killed it, and now the dreaded real estate stigma has attached itself to it: stale.
55 Calhoun Drive, $8.250 million. 1929 home, completely rebuilt and expanded fron 4,087 sq.ft to 8,722 in 2008. Looking at the sole picture of this house as it appeared when it sold in 2003 for $2,758,000, I can see no resemblance, nor is there anything to suggest why it sold for so much back then; it must have been very nice inside, somehow. In any event, it’s certainly very nice now.
huh
78 Khakum Wood road, $6.3 million
Not yet on the net as of this posting (I’ll come back to it later and provide a link when it is) so here’s the MLS data sheet:
And in Riverside, 101 Lockwood Road is newly listed for $4.395 million. Probably decent enough, but follow the link to its interior shots: this one will require a complete redecorating job, from basement to attic. Or not — your taste may differ.
Remember that road rage guy who beat up a woman and her daughter, posted about here four days ago? His reeducation has begun. A Hawaiian punch is one thing; we’ll hope that he didn’t also receive a Hawaiian poke as part of his tutorial.
condolence cards and flowers can be sent him c/o hawaii department of corrections
The serial Tesla road-rage driver who landed back behind bars for allegedly assaulting a teen driver and her mother in Hawaii last week was found beaten to a bloody pulp in prison.
Nathaniel Radimak, 39, was assaulted by inmates at Halawa Correctional Facility around 4:25 p.m. Monday, the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told ABC 7.
“Nathaniel Radimak was allegedly assaulted by other inmates in a housing unit at the Halawa Correctional Facility,” public information officer Rosemarie Bernardo said.
The hot-headed driver “sustained injuries to his face and torso” and was taken to the Queen’s Medical Center for treatment.
Radimak was photographed wearing his orange prison jumpsuit in a hospital wheelchair with a badly bruised and bloody face following the alleged assault.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said it is investigating the incident.
The back story:
Radimak’s assault comes after he was arrested May 8 for losing his temper and allegedly becoming violent with another motorist.
Radimak — who has been out on parole since August after he served only 10 months of a five-year prison sentence — was speeding in a gray Tesla in downtown Honolulu when he raced past an 18-year-old driver parking her car on Halekauwila Street on May 7.
The female teen driver yelled at Radimak to “slow down” as he sped by them, prompting him to get out of the vehicle and start arguing with her and her mother.
The girl’s mother, Diane Ung, estimated that Radimak was driving around 40 to 50 miles per hour as she was trying to teach her daughter how to parallel park outside their home.
Ung claimed Radimak struck her and her daughter in the face during the confrontation before he got back in his Tesla and fled.
“Halfway in his car already, and he says, ‘What did you say to me? You better shut your face before, you know, I come and do that the same thing I did to her,’” Ung told KITV.
“Had my coffee in my hand, my ice coffee from McDonald’s, threw it at his car and he came running across the street, struck me like a Superman punch right inside my face. I fell down to the ground. Big gash in my head.”
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Radimak made headlines as the pipe-wielding Tesla driver who terrorized California highways over the years.
In one viral video, Radimak jumped out of his charcoal-colored 2022 Tesla Model X with no license plates, armed with a pipe, and pummeled the truck behind him on Jan. 11, 2023.
Another victim of Radimak’s rage, identified as Gracia, had a run-in with Radimak in November 2022 at a storage facility in Los Angeles when the Tesla-driving maniac began unprovokedly harassing her and followed her in his car after she tried to escape.
Recording the encounter for her safety, Radimak yelled at Garcia to go back to “where you came from” and hurled expletives at her after catching up to her before fleeing.
He was arrested in February 2023 after several dashcams captured him attacking vehicles on highways in Southern California.
He was charged with four counts each of assault by means of force to produce great bodily injury and criminal threats, and one felony count of vandalism.
(This might explain some of his behavior, eh? “During his arrest, police found nearly $30,000 worth of steroids in his car.
United States Capitol Police (USCP) confirmed to Fox News Digital that seven people were ultimately arrested following the disruption at Kennedy's hearing. Among those arrested was Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen, who was arrested for obstruction.
USCP added that some of the arrestees were also charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer, but they could not confirm how many of the other six were charged with these more severe crimes.
Six months in the D.C. jail, minimum.
Naama Levy. 19, raped, tortured, and imprisoned for 15 months. Hail, Hamas!
The city council of Providence, Rhode Island, is hosting a flag raising ceremony at the City Hall.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 14, 2025
What flag, you ask? A Palestinian flag...
Providence, RI has been conquered. pic.twitter.com/pSXC6RuK1v
The girl in the widely circulated video from the October 7th Hamas attack, seen with blood-soaked pants being dragged and forced into a vehicle, was identified as Naama Levy.
She was a 19-year-old Israeli surveillance soldier at the Nahal Oz military base when she was kidnapped by Hamas. She was held captive for 477 days, enduring harsh conditions, before being released on January 25, 2025 as part of a ceasefire deal. The image of her abduction became a symbol of the suffering of female hostages and the brutality of the Hamas attack.
Mine’s pre-ordered for next year.
here’s what it looks like today
I saw a new rental listing just now for 12 Druid Lane in Riverside, asking $25,000 per month. I couldn’t locate an online link to it, but what interests me is the window it opens to the recent swings in real estate values.
The original house that stood here (owned by the parents of a childhood friend of mine, just as a irrelevant nugget of information) was a 1945 Cape;
it was listed in 2006 for $1.695 million and was immediately bought by a builder for $1,737,042.
The resulting new build was put up for sale in March, 2007 for $3.695 million, but that was just as the market was cooling and then plummeting into the crash; it finally sold in December 2008 for $2.835.
It was resold to the current owners in 2012 for just $2.9 million.
I couldn’t find any recent sales on Druid, but there have been several one street over on Bramble and, judging from those, I’d guess (top of the head) this would sell for some number in the high $3s, possibly more.
None of which really says anything of earthshaking significance, but I thought it might be of interest.
here’s what it replaced in 2007
And here’s the price history:
UPDATE: A reader reminds me that 35 Druid Lane is still pending, but entered a bidding war immediately back in March and is going for far more than its asking price of $2.550. It’s reported to be an absolute dump inside, so it matches its exterior. Here’s what I said about it back in March:
35 Druid Lane, $2.550 million and going for more. The owners paid $1.850 for it in ‘22 in another bidding war that had begun at $1.650), tidied it up and painted (although they appear to have retained for their rustic appeal the patched roof and crumbling driveway) and are ready to move on. 41.7% appreciation at the asking price, and sure to be more when the dust settles.
(Update: heard from an agent whose clients’ offer of $2.7+ “wasn’t even close” — sheesh. $2.850? Higher? Send in your guesses: winner gets to seal the drive, if not the deal.
Back when it sold in 2022 I predicted it was destined for the dumpster. That didn’t happen then, but I’m even more confident that it will now. That’s going to be one expensive house someone’s planning to put up.
8 Mary Lane, a 1953, 1,250 sq. ft. split level, listed at $1.250 million, contract in 14 days. You can expand it another 3,000 sq. ft. or replace it with a house that size, and I imagine that one of those is a strong possibility. Still ….
Democrats have reached peaked stupidity. Now they're blocking a van with ICE detainees from entering the facility in NJ, and a boomer is waving a "LOVE" sign to possible gang members and r*pists.
— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) May 12, 2025
What universe are we in pic.twitter.com/1dbH1pXewG
They're singing again pic.twitter.com/v8zn8eMgEz
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) May 12, 2025
The Colorado I spend time in the early 70s was filled with young people my age with ambition — they all wanted to start their own businesses, and were working every odd job they could to accumulate savings — and older, tougher men and women who seemed to know what they were about. Then the Californians and eastern hippy refugees came in. The state is rushing towards oblivion, and the aging hippies and their spoiled spawn are cheering, because they’re idiots.
THE NEW DARK AGE: Colorado’s forced march to energy uncertainty.
“Energy isn’t a luxury,” Colorado Springs Utilities CEO Travas Deal recently told my Power Gab co-host Jake Fogleman and me. His concern? The direction of Colorado’s energy policy—away from affordable, reliable baseload power and toward costly, intermittent wind and solar.
He’s right. Reliable power is not optional. It’s a matter of life and death. We saw that in Texas during 2021’s Winter Storm Uri, where 246 people died amid rolling blackouts that nearly triggered a catastrophic grid collapse.
We’re seeing blackouts in Colorado, too. At the same time, the cost of power in Colorado is skyrocketing. Residential rates have increased over 85% since 2003, higher than inflation.
Yet Democrat Governor Jared Polis is doubling down on this dangerous trajectory to enshrine his unrealistic campaign promise of a grid powered by 100% “renewables” into state law. A draft bill circulated at the Capitol earlier this year mandates a 95% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector by 2035 and 100% by 2040. This far exceeds the ambitious targets codified in 2019: 80% carbon emissions reduction by 2030.
The only way to meet this emission goal is to shut down the remaining coal and natural gas baseload, blanket the state with industrial wind turbines, utility-scale solar installations, and industrial batteries, force Coloradans into electric vehicles, require heat pumps, and drain Coloradans’ bank accounts.
That last part is key.
Previously: ‘F’ Is for Democrat: Colorado’s Collapse Under One-Party Rule.
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