This might be a record price for a 1960's split-level in NoPo but if it is, it probably won’t be for long

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37 Mary Lane was purchased back in June 2024 for $960,000 in a bidding war that started at $799,000. The builder blew it out from 1,650 sq. ft. to 3,176 sq. ft., gut renovated it while he was at it, and has put it for sale today at $3.3 million.

What low-moderate housing advocates fail to understand, or perhaps they do, is that you can’t build inexpensive housing on incredibly expensive land unless you go up several stories and divide that cost between, say 20 apartments. Those will come, if Connecticut voters continue to elect the people they’ve been sending to Hartford the past few decades, and my guess is that they will: greed and envy are eternal.

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Another moderate-income house has come on the market; maybe this will finally satisfy the Hartford progressives

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The owner of 159 Lake Avenue paid $1.490 million for it in July 2024, blew it out from 1,744 sq. ft. to 4,780, and has returned it to the market for $5.475 million. Busy, noisy lower Lake Avenue wouldn’t be my choice of where to live in Greenwich, but it will probably seem positively bucolic to a transplant from Bushwick, and the one -hour commute back to the city will be an improvement over the 7 mile, 1+ hour subway trip from Bushwick Avenue.

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I'm with the Gov on this one; why should her constituents pay for out-of-staters to come watch a foreign, imitative and inferior form of genuine football?

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Euro-weenies fake injuries during their fake game — leave ‘em across the atlantic

NJ Transit officially announces exorbitant $150 round-trip train tickets to World Cup games

NJ Transit officials formally announced its sky-high $150 round-trip ticket prices for trains headed to FIFA World Cup games at the Meadowlands, confirming controversial reports from earlier this week.

To make matters worse, Kris Kolluri, president of the Garden State’s largest transit network, also told reporters Friday that just 40,000 tickets will be made available, and once they’re gone, remaining rail-riding soccer fans will be out of luck.

He also said two shuttle buses would be available to take passengers to New York-New Jersey Stadium from Port Authority and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in Nutley at a teeth-clenching cost of $80 a pop.

The staggering price tag, a more than 1,000% increase over the usual $12.90 roundtrip fare for the 18-mile journey, was first reported by The Athletic, citing an inside source.

NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill has been at loggerheads with FIFA over the transit system’s plan to jack up the price of a train ticket from Penn Station to the eight matches taking place at the Meadowlands.

“We are not going to be paying for moving the people who are viewing the World Cup on the back of New Jersey taxpayers and New Jersey commuters,” Sherrill told reporters, hitting out at the state’s agreement with FIFA that left the NJT on the hook for the estimated $48 million cost of shuttling fans to the stadium.

“We have inherited an agreement in which FIFA doesn’t contribute a single dollar toward transportation for the World Cup. And while NJ Transit is left with a $48 million bill to safely transport 40,000 fans from the stadium to wherever they’re headed, FIFA is generating $11 billion from this World Cup,” Sherrill posted on X.

“I won’t stick N.J. commuters with that tab for years to come, that’s not fair,” she added. “FIFA should pay for the rides, but if they don’t, I’m not going to let N.J. commuters be taken for one.”

The competition organizer countered Sherill’s attack by denying responsibility for the planned price-hike, and citing an agreement signed with host cities in 2018 that free transportation would be provided.

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The World Cup could also be a nightmare for Jersey-bound commuters trying to get home on the six game days when a match is being held during the evening rush.

On game nights, (June 13, June 16, June 22, June 25, June 27, June 30, July 5 and July 19), only tournament ticket holders will be able to access the NJT portion of Penn Station for the four hours leading up to kick off.

Change of plans? Because as a spec project , this doesn't make much sense.

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10 Maple Drive, Old Greenwich, purchased for $999,111 in June 2025, was put back on the market @ $1.2 million earlier this month and is reported as under contract today, 10 days later. The owners didn’t do a whole lot of work on the house, but they did redo kitchen and baths, a little, and performed some painting, but after conveyance taxes and commissions, they’ll be lucky to break even. Unless, of course, the buyers are paying much more than the asking price — not impossible in this market — in which case ….

The house was an estate sale for a Mrs. Eileen Burke, who died last year aged 99, an accomplishment in itself, and the listing last year cautioned that it was being “sold as is, where is”. I get the “as is” — that’s standard for estate sales, where the owner is unavailable to opine on hidden defects and necessary repairs, but “as is”? Did they expect buyers to demand that it be relocated to, say, Maple Avenue? In the event, the disclaimer proved unnecessary, and the house remains where it was.

the driveway remains “as was”

And another reminder, of a different sort

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Stephen Green: THE SAME COULD BE SAID ABOUT THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE MED, SAVE ISRAEL — AND THERE’S A LESSON IN THAT:

UPDATE: A friend sent this along:

Blink and you missed them

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Pending Sales:

21 Sound Beach Avenue, $1.725 million, 7 days

9 Tamarack Place, $2.260 million, 3 days. I’d forgotten where Tamarack Place is, and I had to look it up to remind myself. It’s over in Glenville, and in fact, for what it is — a 1978 development carved out of the land originally atached to the 1875 house at 2 Tamarck Place, it’s a very nice street.

Reminder: this woman's constituents have returned her to office 18 times — she’s been in Congress for 35 years

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RFK, Jr.: “The states regulate raw milk, not the federal government.” “Oh.”

I personally haven’t drunk raw milk since I spent summers in Vermont as a kid, but this is still fun to watch.

Republicans

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WE'VE KNOWN THIS FOR YEARS AND NOTHING IS DONE

Asylum Fraud in Ireland, the UK, and the USA

Catherine Salgado, PJ Media:'

As multiple House Republicans cross the aisle to vote with Democrats on granting temporary protected status (TPS) or de facto asylum to hundreds of thousands of Haitian aliens in the USA, numerous instances of asylum fraud in both United States and Ireland are resurfacing on X.

The overwhelming majority of asylum claims in the USA are fraudulent. Under Donald Trump, the number of asylum seekers entering the U.S. dropped over 99% from Joe Biden's numbers, according to the Cato Institute, and that's because the claims were nearly all bogus. As for those who apply for asylum with U.S. immigration authorities, the Trump administration is approving only 7% of cases now, illustrating how insanely high the number of false claims are. This is important as the House has passed a resolution to give a form of "de facto asylum" to Haitians.

Yesterday, I reported that six Republicans voted with Democrats on Squad member Ayanna Pressley’s (D-Mass.) H.Res.965: Rep. Don Bacon (R-Nebraska), Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Flor.), Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Flor.), Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.). On April 16, the final vote tally from Republicans in favor of the TPS for Haitians — according to Newsweek — was ten Republicans. Ohio Reps. Michael R. Turner and Mike Carey, Georgia Rep. Richard McCormick, and Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart joined the GOP traitors.

In response, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin shared video of over 15,000 illegal aliens from Haiti heading here during September 2021 alone. Over 12,000 of those illegal aliens made it into our country. Melugin stated that countless numbers of these Haitians deliberately abandoned their paperwork so that they could make fraudulent asylum claims. The Fox News team picked up many of the documents and IDs left behind proving that the Haitians had spent years living and working in South American countries before trekking up to the southern U.S. border with their fake tales of terror back in Haiti.

While across the pond ….