Manhattan Loft Guy

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on matters of interest to Manhattan coop or condo loft apartment dwellers, buyers, sellers, and others, especially about New York City real estate

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irony abounds / NY Times on geography + internet

Dec. 23, 2007

Categorized in: caution: no real estate content

Tagged with: needle trades, ny times, photography, san francisco, sewing machine, silicon valley, west 17, west 26

In Manhattan, there used to be sewing machine repair shops clustered around West 26 Street, off Sixth Avenue, and button and ‘notions’ in the high West 30s, west of Eight Avenue, when the Seventh Avenue corridor in the 20s and 30s really did center th

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please don�t feed the sea lions (no � really � pretty please)

Nov. 29, 2006

Categorized in: caution: no real estate content

Tagged with: san francisco, sea lions

thinking of moving to San Francisco? / be careful out there This news report is not funny. Really. But it is … interesting. Some highlights: “a rogue sea lion bit 14 swimmers... [Read More]

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isn�t Williamsburg enough? / cities competing for hipsters

Nov. 27, 2006

Categorized in: New York, New York, New York

Tagged with: atlanta, austin, creative class, demographics, hipsters, los angeles, ny times, san francisco

locking in 25-34 year-olds turns out to be important (maybe) Interesting piece in Saturday’s NY Times about how the future of (some?) cities may be tied to their ability to attract the cohor... [Read More]

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irony abounds / NY Times on geography + internet

please don�t feed the sea lions (no � really � pretty please)

isn�t Williamsburg enough? / cities competing for hipsters