Blessed Are They That Bought Early

From Rebecca Mead’s profile of Boro Pres Marty Markowitz published online today, we learn that the man at the center of the most important urban planning decisions facing Brooklyn has been priced out of the real estate market himself:

Markowitz, who is sixty and short and portly, can barely make a public appearance without cracking mournful jokes about his personal failings: his weakness in the face of Brooklyn’s multiplicity of ethnic restaurants and his inability to con-trol his weight; his remaining single until the age of fifty-four, when he married Jamie Snow, a graphic designer about a dozen years his junior; his incapacity, on a salary of a hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars a year, to enter the Brooklyn real-estate marketplace. Blessed are they who bought early, he told participants at one street fair in Park Slope.

Amen.
Mr. Brooklyn [The New Yorker]