From the NY Times:
Westfield, N.J., Where Small Town Meets Urban
Marci Bandelli thought she would never leave Brooklyn. Her husband, Stanford, who was born there, felt the same way. By 2001, with the addition of two children, the couple were outgrowing their rent-stabilized apartment in Brooklyn Heights and began looking in Park Slope.
Then the terrorist attacks happened on Sept. 11. Ms. Bandelli’s brother, Alan Kleinberg, who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, died at the World Trade Center. And everything changed.
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The appeal of Westfield for New York City transplants like the Bandellis is understandable, as this central Union County town offers characteristics typically associated with urban living — a bustling downtown, a vibrant cultural scene and good transportation options — along with many benefits of suburban living, like attractive homes, well-regarded schools and a sense of community.“Westfield is big enough that there are a lot of ways to get connected, but small enough to feel like you can really get to know everyone in this town,” said Laura Brockway, 60, a Realtor with Keller Williams who has lived in Westfield for 32 years with her husband, Richard, raising their three sons there.
Lauren Mays, the mother of a 10-month-old daughter, has connected with many of her neighbors through the Westfield, N.J., Moms Facebook page. Though she and her husband, Tice Mays, who works in sales, had no children when they began looking to move to the suburbs from their Manhattan apartment in 2014, they sought a town with good schools.
The couple, both 35, visited towns in Westchester County and northern New Jersey, happening on an open house for a 1950s three-bedroom two-bath colonial in Westfield, which they wound up buying for $630,000.
“We love the downtown, we’re within walking distance of the elementary school, and the people are very friendly,” said Ms. Mays.
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The couple, both 35, visited towns in Westchester County and northern New Jersey, happening on an open house for a 1950s three-bedroom two-bath colonial in Westfield, which they wound up buying for $630,000.“We love the downtown, we’re within walking distance of the elementary school, and the people are very friendly,” said Ms. Mays.
Heres a lil link to fume over
Social media swoons at Essence magazine photos of Obamas – CNN
https://apple.news/A-vLtHglNSCmXozhMBhcxQA
BRIGADOON!
Junk in the trunk.
“Marci Bandelli thought she would never leave Brooklyn.”
@BrianStelter
This election is all about race, class, and gender. Tempting to think it’s purely about policy differences, but…
Please be advised I coined the phrase Brigadoon back in the heyday of the blog. Thank you and have a nice day!
Anyone know of a good landlord insurance agent? shopping around. Bergen area.
Love Westfield and it’s beautiful downtown, always wanted to move there, it’s where most of my Doctors live. I’m sure that 1950’s 2 bath colonial was they bought was nothing special. Here’s a 1930’s cape currently for sale for 500K
http://www.weichert.com/65850351/
Footie talk: MAN DOWN! City wins derby at Old Trafford.
No Brig or Brig-on-Hacky talk here in a coon’s age.
Ann E. Koon in da Brigadoons?
As nice as it was, I don’t miss The Brig.
Okay, I miss it a little.
Hillary is beginning to remind me of Toonces, the driving cat, the cat that could drive a car. She can run a campaign…but not very good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_hwerqogzQ
slummit and south-of-the-tracks brigadoon…what’s in a zip code?
i love toonces. We’re gonna be stuck with her I’m tellin’ you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/opinion/campaign-stops/how-the-other-fifth-lives.html?WT.mc_id=2016-KWP-MOBILE-AUD_DEV&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=MOBILEFULLPAGE&kwp_0=179257&kwp_4=723248&kwp_1=365069
Joe Biden where are you?
HiIllary Clinton has been forced to leave a 9/11 commemoration service today suffering from a “medical episode”, according to a law enforcement witness.
Dr. Feelgood right there on scene (opening the Scooby Van) to help load the sack of potatoes in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWWE5qU_mUc
My prediction, after putting 2 +2 together.
Hillary has Myasthenia Gravis. Heard it here first.
Saw video an hour or so ago. Video + constant sunglasses (hides eye droopiness) + coughing/gagging incidents + kept at distance to hide chronic weakness/jumpy like zombie movement + neurologist with a tractor trailer supply of neostigmine and pyridostigmine.
If she’s wins, she’ll spent sometime on ventilator during her presidency. Her presidency is going to make the Breshnev, Gromiko, Andropov early 80’s USSR leadership as a bunch of healthy young boy scouts.
Nobody would get overheated this morning. The weather was nice and breezy too. Maybe she should finish her campaign on a personal mobility scooter. If she withdraws, who is the Democrat nominee? Kaine?
If either candidate withdraws there is no November presidential election. I think that is plan B for the Dems right now. From there it could be new conventions, new candidate(s), and election before December 31st…or…Paul Ryan becomes interim president in January and the election happens some time after that.
Was that video for real or did someone splice in a clip from weekend at Bernies?
Her health is failing rapidly. That’s reason enough that she’s no longer a valid candidate. Wikileaks is about to unload on her again.
Either way Trump needs to move to the next phase of his rhetoric and refer to Hillary in the past tense. Start to move to more unifying positions on key issues as well.
Diagnosed with pneumonia?
Consistent with MG btw
I didn’t really buy into the unhealthy Hillary wave of theories but I gotta say, watching that video…she’s in very poor shape. Pneumonia or not…you should be able to walk. And it wasn’t even hot out today.
Ben,
Maybe it was Bad Sushi!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOnDatqENo
Clot,
I’ll have you know, I was on the north side.
http://nypost.com/2016/09/11/why-are-you-so-sick-martin-shkreli-shows-up-to-taunt-clinton/
This was in a Reuters report from a Clinton flak: Several Clinton allies said the incident underscored the candidate’s resilience.
“After being diagnosed with pneumonia, Hillary Clinton ran a two-hour national security meeting, gave a press conference, and spent an hour and a half in the heat at a September 11 event,” said Peter Daou, who worked for Clinton in the past and now has a communications firm.
“It was an impressive feat of physical strength that undermined weeks of health conspiracies.”
The blue lens sunglasses are to aid in inhibiting seizures.
No Brady, no Gronk, no Ninkovich , etc., etc., etc., the pundits and even the staff put this game in the L column weeks before they played it.
And yet, we are a game up on the Jets. Sweet.
Clot, this is the kind of election coverage tailor made for you.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/08/29/clinton-trump-matchup-zombie-apocalypse/ClwK0HK79RIs6cOiPDdQGO/story.html
And I see Rory Martin is peddling his fallacious analogies again. I don’t know which is worse, the narcissism or the hypocrisy.
Chifi, I expect that within a month, Shkreli will kill himself.
Six shots. All to the back of the head. DiBlasio will report the suicide himself.
Wow, i didn’t realize there were so many doctors who frequent this board.
“Hillary has Myasthenia Gravis. Heard it here first.”
You’ll be wrong, heard it here first.