...just to be clear that, was a swipe at the original poster who initially thought 300k x 3 was a billion dollars. He has edited his post wisely. Yes, some rich people are scumbags. Some are just good at what they do.

These people got rich by knowing math.

Italian? He's Romanian.

Well this is embarrassing, but I actually had no idea boomerangs were real. I thought they were from cartoons. I need to get out more.

Wow. You are right! That is some truly retrograde architecture right there. Looks almost identical to the seven sisters.

Building in image four is one of the "seven sisters" which was built in the 1950s. Not post-soviet architecture:

Some of us don't have the luxury of blowing through our earth's energy resources by living in a five bedroom, 4200 sqft house. Car-culture consumerism as its worst. "So much land". Right, right, land is just there for you to build your giant house on. Forget nature and agriculture. Just build your mcmansion and…

Ha. Hapgood was a fascinating writer but just completely un-scientific. He refused to believe in continental drift his whole life . . . and he died in 1982!! The poor guy latched onto some ludicrous ideas in his youth and spent the rest of his life bending the world around them.

Definitely the Tomb of the Amiable Child which is a small grave right off of a sidewalk in Morningside Heights, Manhattan:

At least there is decent grammar going on in here.

I think he was trying to go the "Honey Badger" narrator route, but came up short in vocal whimsy.

Female toplessness is actually legal in New York.

I HIGHLY recommend a tour of the distillery if you are in the area. The owner is amazing knowledgeable but always speaks in layman's terms. He gave us a pretty fascinating and comprehensive history of spirits distillation in maybe 10 minutes. My highly ADHD friend barely fidgeted, which speaks volumes. The tour…

Very cool concept but until they develop modules that connect the system to a wireless standard, it isn't Internet of Things. Would love to see a ZigBee or Z Wave module.

Yes, small towns are great . . . until you need healthcare options, educational options, diversity of opinion, cultural diversity, density of innovation, transit hubs etc. to make life in the modern world possible.

I'm torn over this one. I grew up in Chicago, and like all sons of Chicago, was instilled with the importance of good design and the city's architectural history. I didn't hear about this building until a few years ago when the preservation battle ramped-up. In a city of architectural gems, this is but a tiny ruby.…

An interesting NYC tidbit about "air rights;" Why do we have the distinctive "setback" or "cascading" forms of the famous Art Deco skyscrapers? Mostly because of the 1916 zoning law that required buildings to be built within an "envelope" that looked roughly like a pyramid:

FYI, the building will in no way shadow Central Park. The renderings are from before the Landmarks Preservation Commission knocked 200 feet off its height. It's now just a little taller than the buildings around it. Too bad; it would have been an elegant tower.

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