What does $14 buy you in Manhattan? A hot dog ($8) and Coke ($6) at Yankee Stadium. Or . . . round-trip bus fare to Philadelphia on either the Megabus or Bolt bus lines (I took the former). Not only was the (double-decker) bus clean, modern, and on-time — it had free Wi-Fi, too!Read More
[I’ll take] “Awkward Acronyms for $100” Want proof that you’re in an urban, eastern seaboard state? (I’m in Philadelphia at the moment visiting relatives). The transportation system has a name that sounds like it’s a new kind of septic system, or maybe the plural form. In this case, that would be “SEPTA,” short for Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. Somehow,...Read More
The Next Big Thing? Not Yet Not all technological innovations take the world by storm. Or at least the real estate world. Case in point: so-called QR codes, short for “quick response.” Essentially a bar code (like the one at left), they allow anyone with a smart phone to take a snapshot of an image,...Read More
To laymen, it must certainly appear that way. So, people who know I used to be a corporate attorney will often say to me in passing about another Realtor, “did you know that so-and-so used to be an attorney, too?” If and when I cross paths with the fellow Realtor-Attorney, what I invariably discover is...Read More
Re-Think NYC Minneapolis There’s a billboard campaign in Manhattan at the moment showing how the island would look if Central Park were developed, and the rest of the city . . . wasn’t. It’s a brilliant way of showing the amount of space we devote to each use. How would Minneapolis look rendered in such a...Read More
