One Less “Crazy Cue” Here’s a shorthand for whether the kind-of-crazy looking New Yorker, talking to themselves, is really crazy — or just talking on their (blue tooth-enabled) cell: in the subway, they’re definitely crazy. Above ground . . . the odds are that they aren’t. —City Lakes Real Estate Blog (Aug. 7, 2010) Looks...Read More
From the Mouths of Babes [Editor’s Note: my blog posts the past week have more been more intermittent — and spiced with NY anecdotes — because I just returned from there. Memo to self: put away the sharp elbows and aggressive driving (adaptive in NY, but out-of-place in the more congenial, laid-back Midwest.] Compiling an exhaustive list...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
Meet the “Realtor – Social Worker” * The Sunday New York Times has a lengthy profile of Lockhart Steele (yes, that’s his real name), the founder of real estate blog “Curbed.” If you didn’t know — and I was only vaguely aware — Curbed (and other blogs like it) apparently are now integral to how...Read More
Which City is Most Like the “Mini-Apple?” Notwitstanding a local effort to brand Minneapolis as the “Mini-Apple,” I don’t see much resemblance between Minneapolis and “The Big Apple,” New York City (I’ve lived both places). If I had to come up with a metro area most like the Twin Cities, it would be . ....Read More
“Sliver Buildings” Take Their Place in NY Skyline[Note to Readers: still in New York City; this is another “dispatch” in between kid-centric activities] If you like skyscrapers, there’s no better place — at least in North America — than New York City. All the buildings in downtown Minneapolis would barely fill up Rockefeller Center, which...Read More
