"Only $2 Million"

Chris Hayes sheds a tear for today's beleaguered would-be home purchaser with only $2 million to spend.

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The accompanying article from The NYT has a pic of the young couple in question holding their children, Rocco and Cosima. With names like that, you get the feeling that those kids are lifestyle accessories to those people, kind of like Paris Hilton's chiuahua in a purse? *Barf*

Posted by calipygian | July 21, 2007 1:34 PM

I would think articles like this might put a kink in your plan to socially-reengineer families back to the cities.

Posted by Dave White | July 21, 2007 2:29 PM

I would think articles like this might put a kink in your plan to socially-reengineer families back to the cities.

At the same time, I don't think the anti-urbanists are going to have much success in their claims that people will just naturally move into $2 million McMansions.

Posted by Tyro | July 21, 2007 2:49 PM

"2.5 million asking price. . .2,000-square-foot apartment. . .gut renovation. . .Classic 7 — a three-bedroom apartment with a maid’s room and a living room, dining room and kitchen. . ."

My heart bleeds for them.

Posted by RSA | July 21, 2007 3:39 PM

That article was one of a pair on the hunt for three-bedroom New York apartments; the other couple profiled had similarly pretentiously-named kids: Skylar and Taelon. But they found a three-bedroom for $700k -- on 145th Street. So they will be paying for private school for the tykes.

Posted by Fred | July 21, 2007 6:28 PM

I don't know. The first couple, as I understand it, are common Italian first names. So is it pretentious for Italian-American parents not to use bland anglo-lized names for their children?

Posted by kanchou | July 21, 2007 7:04 PM

I don't know. The first couple, as I understand it, are common Italian first names. So is it pretentious for Italian-American parents not to use bland anglo-lized names for their children?

Yeah, their last name is Presutti, so I don't see much problem.

Similarly, the family of Taelon and Skylar have a traditional Martian surname.

Posted by DivGuy | July 21, 2007 8:22 PM

Quick google work reveals that Rich Presutti is a partner at some fancy corporate law firm. You know, average, middle class americans.

Posted by Stephen | July 22, 2007 1:42 AM

OMG- DivGuy, that' funny.

And I was just going to pipe in with a boring comment about how much the New York Times real estate section sucks.

Posted by Preston | July 22, 2007 10:11 AM

does the NYT really take stories like this seriously? Does this wealthy 4th estate really think its a normal situation for a family tp struggle to find an apartment for 2 million? What planet are they from?

I remember a NYT article about 5 years ago during a particularly bad season at the movies. The article was about how ticket sales were down at the box office. The main reason the NYT could find to explain this was the prevalence of home theaters. Back then, the only person I knew who had a "home theater" was the vice president of my company. I guess that's how folks at the NYT roll...

Posted by chris | July 22, 2007 12:11 PM

Taelon? Taelon?!? Please tell me that's a joke and people really aren't naming their kid for an alien race in a bad sci-fi series. Otherwise we may have to require all yuppies' baby names be approved by the government for the good of the country.

Posted by Phaedrus | July 22, 2007 11:12 PM

An aspiring revolutionary could do worse than circulating NYT Real Estate articles in their entireties to those who don't read the NYT. Come on, even Matt's right-wing trolls have got to be feeling the teensiest hunger pangs for the blood of the rich when they read this...

Posted by tps12 | July 24, 2007 9:52 AM