After many years of being a neighborhood mystery, it’s finally fulfilling its potential. The Gracie Inn is being torn down along with a little corner-once-upon-a-luncheonette.
Going going
Category Archives: real estate
A corner of the UES
The church is in the shadow of this massive construction site, which is just one of such projects in our nearest environs.
Viewpoints
Name Fame
Some of our city’s worst have their names plastered about town. It’s a garden of conservative bigwigs. [I’m sorry, was I being judgmental?]
Seeing this sign anew would have made me change my ambition to put up my name on a building.
Quaint
“The company felt deeply remorseful for the unsatisfactory performance,” it said in a filing to the stock exchange.
Meanwhile in China, a CNN newsletter Sep 1, 2023
The company in question is a large real estate developer suffering in a struggling market sector. The losses it reported came to appx $ 7 billion.
It is a devastating situation for the world’s second largest economy to face.
Chinese developers have been living in interesting times (as the local curse or proverb goes) for some long while.
My riff is a look at something other than the financial crisis China faces.
I am interested in the way in which the development giant is addressing its losses. Here in the West, we are unaccustomed to such a quaint apology in our financial statements.
My home is
What do you love about where you live?
It’s a long list, that one that answers your question about what I love about where I live. Got some time?
- The river is at my door;
- There’s a playground less than a block in the other direction;
- Convenience is on my corner: drugstores, groceries; coffee joints; restaurants;
- There is also a school, a library, a barber, and a cleaner, all a short walk away;
- Quirky stores that are original to my neighborhood;
- My friends and neighbors;
- And the person I love lives with me, too;
- Buses and subways to take me in every direction.
*Italian, too. See below. I’ve done a huge coffee quest just in my own neck of the woods.
Textures
I don’t like the texture of the building on the southwest corner [1], but I find the red brick with the rounded balconies [2] pleasing.
This is the sort of opinion that falls under the category of taste.
Ambition
What does “having it all” mean to you? Is it attainable?
There was a time when I aspired to fame and fortune. Fame in the form of my name on the side of a building.
Not any building but a good sized New York City edifice. The plaque? Big. (Not like 45 ‘uge but tasteful big.)
Now? This little country miniature is all I need. No plaque with my name even on the mailbox. I don’t have to own it. I just enjoy it in passing.
Walk with Me, Too 