nickcarr
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Forget It, Gweilo – It’s Chinatown
Next time you’re passing through Chinatown, take a look at some of the business signs on buildings and you’ll notice that most have a phone number posted, many with two or even three. Not that unusual in New York, and I never gave it a second thought until a few years ago, when I was…
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Exploring An Empty Hundred-Year-Old McKim, Mead & White Mansion
Last fall, I was scouting Westchester for period upscale homes when I happened to find a gem, located far back from the road on an enormous plot of land. I try not to get my hopes up for this type of thing – for a property of this sort, most of the time, the owners…
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Pool Rules Signs Leave Nothing To The Imagination
I’ve been scouting swimming pools at country clubs in the New York area recently, and I’m pretty amazed at how graphic the Pool Rules signs can be. Like this one, spotted at a country club with a $30K initiation fee and $30k/year membership dues: “Discharge of fecal matter” – are you kidding me?? I know…
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A Very Strange House in New Jersey
It’s been a while since I last scouted in Jersey, but this past Friday, I found myself searching the Morristown area for a country road. I happened to turn down a residential street… …passing a handful of your typical upper class houses that can be found pretty much anywhere: Nothing particularly of note here… And…