Thursday Links
M.T.A. Approves Big Service Cuts in Mass Transit [NY Times] 24 Sites Cut From City Plan for 290 Parks [NY Times] Welfare Rolls Grow in City, but Increase Is Modest [NY Times] Lotta Goes Holiday Market Shopping [NY Times] Marty Purchases Home in Windsor Terrace [NY Daily News] Brooklyn Food Pantries Stocked, But Charities Lack…
M.T.A. Approves Big Service Cuts in Mass Transit [NY Times]
24 Sites Cut From City Plan for 290 Parks [NY Times]
Welfare Rolls Grow in City, but Increase Is Modest [NY Times]
Lotta Goes Holiday Market Shopping [NY Times]
Marty Purchases Home in Windsor Terrace [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Food Pantries Stocked, But Charities Lack Cash [NY Daily News]
Rose Plaza Developers May Have Second Chance With Markowitz [Brooklyn Eagle]
Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1 Goes Green [Curbed]
Photo by jglsongs
Anyone know where this building is?
I am pretty sure I looked at the house Marty bought – they were asking 1.8 and even the Corcoran broker at the time acknowledged that was pretty ridiculous. The house was spectacularly renovated though, and quite big. Other unrenovated houses around there seem to go for anywhere from 1-1.25, so maybe the reno almost justified the price?
I’m just wondering if him moving over here will ensure our streets get plowed and our mail shows up?
I’m intrigued by the part where he got some of his downpayment from the settlement of a slip-and-fall lawsuit. Isn’t the point of this type of suit supposedly to compensate him for medical expenses and lost wages, not to provide a gratuitous windfall to the plaintiff? Maybe there was a lot of ‘pain and suffering’ which could only be assuaged by purchasing real estate.
Hey Marty –
I hope somebody wants to build an arena where your house is.
Marty seriously overpaid for that WT house.
Look up the bio for the former owner of Marty’s new house, Rynn Booher Williams, a poet. Interesting person and family. Very sad she died at only 47 and in this house. Nothing says how she died. Her father is an architect – perhaps the house reno was spectacular thus the high price.
Where can I find a full listing of the actual MTA cuts?
“In South Brooklyn a semi-detached brick with driveway (similar to Marty’s) goes for about 1/2 what he paid.” – you must mean southern Brooklyn or at least (little s) south Brooklyn.
South Brooklyn is CarGardens, Cobble hill, etc….southern part of old city of Brooklyn.
Guess it’s easier to come up here.
Marty ‘boosting’ BK again by overpaying for real estate.