Category Archives: Fun

From “Urban Decay” to Urban Renewal: Manhattan Gets Prettier

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Doug Heddings

The Port Authority Bus Terminal may soon get an incredible face lift.  According to Annie Karni of The Sun a Gleaming Office Tower May (soon) Rise Upon a Symbol of Urban Decay.  The Port Authority Bus Terminal, for decades a … Continue reading →

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Inaugural Hampton’s Marathon!!!

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Doug Heddings

TrueGotham is proud to be a sponsor of the inaugural Hamptons Marathon and Half-Marathon.  The race will be held on Saturday, September 29, 2007. The course runs through Amagansett, Springs and East Hampton with views of the Atlantic Ocean and Nepeague … Continue reading →

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Listen Up: I Don’t Want Your Referral Fee!

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Doug Heddings

The Manhattan real estate market can be incredibly draining…such is life.  I’m exhausted after a day where nothing went the way I thought it should…so what!  Just mentioning it to shed some light on the fact that I’m posting to … Continue reading →

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True Gotham Dragons Season Opener!

Posted on April 14, 2007 by Doug Heddings

Today was the first pitch for the CYO Manhattan Youth Baseball League.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t stay for the entire game but what a blast watching the TrueGotham.com Dragons smack the ball around!  My nephew, quite a ball player I must … Continue reading →

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Friday Link-O-Rama

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Doug Heddings

After a couple of quiet weeks (boy it was nice), the Manhattan real estate market is picking up where it left off at the end of March.  It is indeed heating up again as it almost always does going into … Continue reading →

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Virtual Rollercoaster of US Home Prices Since 1895

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Doug Heddings

My friend Henry Abbott of TrueHoop fame sent me this incredible virtual roller coaster of home prices since 1895 (via Kottke.org).  I can’t believe Jonathan Miller hasn’t done something like this as he is the master of stats and graphs.  … Continue reading →

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True Gotham Redux

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Doug Heddings

I’m off to the Dominican republic today for a much needed vacation with the family.  I’ll be back blogging on Monday, April 2nd but today and all of next week, I will rerun some of True Gotham’s most popular/controversial posts.  … Continue reading →

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Real Estate Humor

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Doug Heddings

From McSweeneys.net (via Kottke) comes this hilarious ad: ROOMMATE WANTED: SHARE MY WEST VILLAGE PAD I have one bedroom available for rent in a two-bedroom apartment in the heart of Manhattan’s West Village. I would describe the room as cozy and … Continue reading →

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A Developer/Landlord Nightmare: The Holdout

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Doug Heddings

Check this out courtesy of Boing Boing. The ultimate holdout.  This guy in China won’t sell to the developers for less than £1.3 million so they dug a huge moat of sorts around his house.  Can you say determination…on both … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Real Estate #33

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Doug Heddings

The Carnival is up at The Phoenix Real Estate Guy.  Check it out.

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