tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post2199998342790765258..comments2024-02-01T04:37:41.878-05:00Comments on Cap'n Transit Rides Again: There is no luxury housingCap'n Transithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17057887736728828646noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post-57935760638007031932015-02-01T15:51:27.682-05:002015-02-01T15:51:27.682-05:00I always viewed "luxury" as a real estat...I always viewed "luxury" as a real estate euphemism (there are so many) for "expensive" that is apparently received by the public better than "new." It communicates a high quality generally associated with new construction without having to say so directly, since newness per se does not have the cachet in New York, with its impressive legacy of pre-war apartments, that it might in some other cities.Charlie Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07317335121565650040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post-73444753512302238242015-01-26T18:16:16.553-05:002015-01-26T18:16:16.553-05:00Interesting take, Vikingirishwoman. So if your doc...Interesting take, Vikingirishwoman. So if your doctor tells you to take two aspirins and you only take one, and then your fever goes up instead of down, do you then say that the aspirin is causing your fever to go up?Cap'n Transithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17057887736728828646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post-82695946150261639472015-01-26T15:26:13.735-05:002015-01-26T15:26:13.735-05:00You're pretty smug, you know that? If builder...You're pretty smug, you know that? If builders need to call it "luxury" to sell it, and people actually believe it, they are stupid. I don't call anything within spitting distance of car, rail and subway traffic luxury, whether it has marble counter tops or not, but that is what every new building around here calls itself. Whatever they call it it was supposed to bring prices down, but things have tripled. So no matter what you call it, it is screwing working people and we are allowed to dislike it. Ancestorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12909869785467382974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post-6387209471460099372015-01-25T22:21:15.942-05:002015-01-25T22:21:15.942-05:00Your post came up a day or two before the latest b...Your post came up a day or two before the latest big Edgewater, NJ fire, which burned down a whole swath of "luxury" wood-framed buildings. Talk about oxymoronic.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08520811734907587902noreply@blogger.com