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Bloody property disputes a dark side of Mexico real estate
MEXICO City (AP) — A grisly pre-Christmas killing of two younger guys and their uncle at an early 1900s property in Mexico City solid attention on the darkish aspect of the capital’s booming real estate industry, fed by a absence of authorized paperwork and gangs that illegally seize properties. Actor Andrés Tirado, his musician brother Jorge Tirado and an uncle whose identify was not released had been identified useless Sunday, all with their throats slashed. Prosecutors explained the evident motive was an ownership dispute above the home. In an additional scenario, a younger woman on Tuesday posted a determined online video on social media from a rooftop on the city’s…
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Manhattan’s New Green Space Was J.P. Morgan’s Side Yard
In 1908, an unnamed correspondent for The Times of London wrote the first public account of the two-year-old library of the financier J. Pierpont Morgan, next to his home just east of Madison Avenue on 36th Street. Modeled by the architect Charles Follen McKim on Renaissance buildings like the Villa Medici in Rome, the library contained Morgan’s storied collections of rare books and manuscripts, and was built at a cost of $50,000, or over $1 million today. Describing the library’s lavish interiors and collections, the correspondent wrote, “The Bookman’s Paradise exists and I have seen it.” This weekend and next, the Morgan Library & Museum will celebrate the restoration of…
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Tour an Upper West Side Home That’s Been Injected With Downtown Cool | Architectural Digest
It’s a classic New York story: A young family is moving some 80 blocks north but doesn’t want to sacrifice downtown cool for the change of address. That was the brief for Manhattan-based interior designer Neal Beckstedt, when a pair of clients called on him to decorate their new place: A 1928, three-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side with high ceilings and leafy views of Central Park. It needed to be, in Beckstedt’s words, “Young and fun and cool while still respecting uptown. Bringing the downtown element to them—that was the challenge.” Luckily, he and his clients—a real estate developer and a learning specialist—had instant chemistry: “Neal understood that…
