Caine Blog

Went home for a few days, and during that time had a chance to see some wicked condo-fication, of the same sort that’s going  on here in Brooklyn.  Or was going on, I should say.  The New York Times Magazine real estate supplement just came out, and actually published a piece about the DC market, [...]

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That’s the question I have every time I walk down Metropolitan Avenue, in Williamsburg. Why? Because the land under the BQE is like an untapped oil field, or if that’s a little too much for you, like a wind turbine that’s yet to be raised: pure potential.
Dead zones around expressways aren’t unprecedented in New York: [...]

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Meanwhile…there is all sorts of chaos going on outside my window.  Let’s take a peek:

The pace of condominium development continues unabated, even as the market for new construction luxury condominiums in not-quite-gentrified neighborhoods dries up.  I’d love to watch the prices fall on the sucker across the street and buy one of the upper-floor units [...]

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