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1. Jay Levitt
   Comment by Jay Levitt | 09/29/06 at 3:39 pm

   “…don’t necessarily go outside

   to walk around…”

   Of course we do. And we buy fruit at Lambert’s fruit stand, and bagels

   from the guy outside the Old South Meeting House, and we get our prescriptions at CVS, and we take

   the T at Downtown Crossing or Chinatown, and we say hi to John the homeless guy who predicts the

   weather with his knee. People who buy condos downtown do so BECAUSE of the street life; otherwise

   they’d be buying much bigger places on much flashier streets. Cars are for weekends and grocery

   shopping; I just had to jump-start mine after not using it for a month.

   Towers may or may

   not improve the street scene, depending on who the first-floor tenants are - same as any building,

   short or tall. A supermarket and a Target would be ideal; out of scale for the neighborhood, yes,

   but sorely needed. I assume they’ll have to keep the Filene’s street-level facade, so Washington

   Street’s never going to be a series of small shops there no matter what.

2. John K
   Comment by John K | 09/29/06 at 3:58 pm

   I forgot, not everyone at the Ritz

   uses a walker. Sorry, Jay!

3. Jay Levitt
   Comment by Jay Levitt | 09/30/06 at 11:22 am

   LOL!!

   Actually, I’d say the average Ritz resident is early-40s, married, 1 to 3 kids, nanny,

   dog, one car (luxury SUV of course), ridiculously in shape and in style. Despite the stodgy, John

   Houseman, old-money name, it’s really a new-money, financial-district-working, club-going,

   jet-setting kinda place. If anyone here’s over 55, their plastic surgery is hiding it well.

4. Peter
   Comment by Peter | 01/03/07 at 11:13 am

   Now that we are in the new year, has there been an update on the development plans?

   Anyone have the inside Vornado scoop?

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