Town Hall Municipal parking lot, Thursday, 1:30 p.m. Town employees may be at work but the builders and homeowners they usually serve are obviously out of here.
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- I am, after twenty years, a non-practicing lawyer and glad of it. I am the author of The New Millionaire's Handbook (Andrews/Mcmeal 2000, Greenwich Mean Time (2006) and several equally funny (he said) unpublished novels and screenplays. For the past six years or so I've been selling real estate in Greenwich, Ct and, while that wasn't exactly the career I envisioned when I was a starry-eyed law school graduate, it seems to pay the bills far better than lawyering ever did, with no stress. Good deal.
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Mostly, you'll find information about Greenwich real estate in this blog but I do have other interests and, because I think what our politicians do can severely affect the economy and real estate values, I often jump the shark. If you don't want to see that ugly sight, please skip to a real estate entry.
Clicking on a picture often makes it larger but it depends on how large that picture started in its initial posting. Anything highlighted should be, and usually is, a link related to the article I'm talking about. Click it and see - it's sort of like an Easter egg hunt. My blogging skills are very much a work in progress.
Clicking on a picture often makes it larger but it depends on how large that picture started in its initial posting. Anything highlighted should be, and usually is, a link related to the article I'm talking about. Click it and see - it's sort of like an Easter egg hunt. My blogging skills are very much a work in progress.
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- Contractor/renovator: Paul Bauts, Bauts Custom Construction (914)879-9027,pjbauts@optonline.net
- Lawn Irrigation -Kevin Zosiak: 203 509 9568
- Contractors: Greenwich Construction Louis Van Leeuwen 223-0634
- Painters: Jose (914) 473-1427
- Exterminator: N.E. Exterminating 223-5334
- Chimneys: Bill Ingraham 869-5242
- Builder/carpenter: Oliveira Carpentry, Al Oliveira (914)273-7316
- Plumber: Mat Falco and Sons 637-1640
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Chris, maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't Town Hall operate on "summer hours" until Labor Day? Our builder went there on Friday at 11:50 am and was told everything closes at noon.
I wish MY office worked on "summer hours"
Sheesh, you're probably right, knowing the hard bargain we drive with our employee unions. I'll stop by and see.
But whever the town emplyees are, the rest of the citizens seem to have fled to whever it is those people go and I'm enjoying it. Riverside to Greenwich via the Post Road in under 10 minutes - reminds me of the time, not so long ago, when our population was 30,000 instead of 60,000.
It's partly the population (I've been here since 1970), but mostly the increase in business and (unfortunately) the decrease in "old" retail (Greenwich Drug Store, Greenwich Hardware, Meads, Greenwich Ave. Food Mart, R.I.P.) and the increase in "new" retail (Baccarat, Saks, Tory Burch, etc. etc.) attracting a LOT of NY license plates on the Avenue. My dad always said the population of Greenwich hasn't changed much since we got here, but the number of cars (nannies need cars too!) is way, way up.
You and your Dad are right. I just checked this fascinating (to me) table of census data and our population is unchanged since 1970, when it was 59,000. Big change came while I was gtowing up, I guess, because 1950 pop. was 40,000. If the link I pasted below doesn't work, I'll do it again on the blog proper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_U.S._Census_Totals_for_Fairfield_County,_Connecticut
You will have to let me know if there is any way to check the Town tax rolls or something to see what the number of cars here is. And gardener's trucks. I always seem to get stuck behind one of the seemingly limitless number of gardener's trucks.
(and I'm sorry to say, my Dad is never wrong. It was extremely frustrating growing up in that household, where the higher authority can never be questioned!)
Your father (and mine) remind me of what Mark Twain is supposed to have said about his own:
Katy Perry--Anti-Gay or Anti-Male? First Lesbian Marriage, Now Lesbian Child Support
Mark Twain, on His Father
December 10th, 2007 by Glenn Sacks
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."--
Wow, my Dad and lesbians??
I don't know if this chart will show up:
Gwich Ffield
1900 12172 184203
1910 16463 35.3% 245322 33.2%
1920 22123 34.4% 320936 30.8%
1930 33112 49.7% 386702 20.5%
1940 35509 7.2% 418384 8.2%
1950 40835 15.0% 504342 20.5%
1960 53793 31.7% 653589 29.6%
1970 59755 11.1% 792814 21.3%
1980 59565 -0.3% 807143 1.8%
1990 58441 -1.9% 824645 2.2%
2000 61101 4.6% 882567 7.0%
It doesn't look like my Excel chart, but does show that between 1920 and 1930, Greenwich grew much faster than Fairfield County (50% vs. 21%), otherwise it basically grew in-line. Between 1940 and 1950, Greenwich grew a lot SLOWER (15% vs. 20%) than Fairfield County, but there I noticed that in that time period, Westport exploded, up 40% in population. And between 1970 and 1990, Greenwich LOST population. It just looks like typical post-war (1940s, 1950s and 1960s) movement to the 'burbs.
So for whatever that is worth! (pun intended)
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