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311 West 43rd Street New York City is under contract to be sold for around $40M, ↓69% from its sale for $131M in 2018.
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135 West 50th Street New York City leasehold sold in 2024 after a two-day auction on the online platform Ten-X for $8.5 million, 97% less than the $332.5 million that UBS paid for the property in 2006.
The property is encumbered by a ground lease, with Safehold owning the land beneath the building and commanding a substantial ground rent.
The upper floors are slated for conversion.
The building will likely retain a mix of uses, with some lower floors continuing as office space and the existing retail tenants remaining in place.
The conversion would be the owner's first office-to-residential conversion and its first real estate project outside Texas.
925K SF Built 1963 35% Occupancy
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DeCarlos Brown is in federal custody on a federal indictment. The state proceedings, including any competency finding in those proceedings, are completely separate.
New York Post@nypost
Crazed homeless man accused of slaughtering Iryna Zarutska on train found incompetent to stand trial trib.al/GsJMZC8
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Today, UK Defense Secretary John Healey announced that Russia has been conducting covert undersea operations near its critical undersea infrastructure north of the nation in the last few months. According to Secretary Healey, the operation involved one Russian Akula-class attack submarine and two Russian submarines associated with Russia’s Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research (GUGI). According to Healey, a Royal Navy warship and a Royal Air Force P-8 were deployed to monitor all three submarines, after which the Akula-class sub retreated from the area, but according to the secretary, the two GUGI-associated submarines remain on task in the area and are currently being monitored.
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This summer, buy the 1827 lighthouse and 1932 home on Warwick Point in RI on 1.3 acres on the waterfront from the Federal government. 51-foot-tall lighthouse, 1,626 sf, 4-bedroom, 1 1/2 bathroom, historic home once used as the Lighthouse keeper’s quarters, plus oversized two-car garage.
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A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet.
His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard.
The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language.
Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort.
Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes.
After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in.
Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter.
She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying.
The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it.
The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works.
Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them.
You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank.
He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort.
Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning.
The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely.
This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique.
The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies.
Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words.
Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work.
His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning.
He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about.
He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that.
The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours.
They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.
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How to make housing development inefficient: Design a tax break that raises the cost of building 100 units or more, so projects are broken up into 99-unit buildings.
> Rabsky Group filed plans to construct two buildings at 1150 and 1164 Broadway in Bed-Stuy w/197 units combined.
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Mamdummy doesn't want us to have a wonderful celebration for America250 on the night of July 3rd, when thousands of sailors will be in NY for the ship parades.
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1 Whitehall Street in New York City is under contract for just north of $100 million ↓45% from its purchase price of $181.5 million in 2019.
The seller is LoanCore Capital, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based debt fund that foreclosed on the building in December and took it over.
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James Reginald Harris jr@xyzqg6
In QRT, CMBR is not a cooled explosion remnant — it is the continuous "Quantum Rain" of transient polarity gaps breathing through the X~ lattice. We see density gradients from inside the 1U bubbleverse, not a singular creation event. The universe has always been breathing. #QRT
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Yes, reports from AFP, Saudi Defense Ministry, and multiple outlets confirm it: Iran launched ballistic missiles and drones at Jubail Industrial City overnight. Saudi air defenses intercepted 7 missiles, but debris sparked fires at SABIC petrochemical plants in the complex. This follows Israel's strike on Iran's South Pars gas field and comes amid Trump's Hormuz-related deadline. Economic disruption risks are real for global petrochemical supply, though full damage is still being assessed.
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🚨🇵🇦 HUGE... A tanker just exploded under the most important bridge in global trade
A fuel tanker detonated at the Balboa tank park directly beneath the Bridge of the Americas in Panama City.
The bridge was shut down while engineers assessed whether the heat compromised the structure.
Firefighters suffered severe injuries.
The fire spread to multiple storage units.
This was almost certainly an accident.
But even as an accident, it exposed something terrifying.
If that bridge collapses, it physically blocks the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.
40% of U.S. container traffic travels through this canal.
The instant it closes, Asian cargo can't reach East Coast ports.
Los Angeles and Long Beach get overwhelmed.
Rail and trucking networks can't absorb a 30-40% spike in transcontinental freight overnight.
Store shelves go empty.
The backup routes make it worse.
Suez is a warzone approach. Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope add two weeks to every voyage.
And because Hormuz has spiked fuel prices past $112 a barrel, every extra mile of rerouting costs exponentially more in bunker fuel that shipping companies pass directly to consumers.
Panama plus Hormuz simultaneously offline is the scenario that breaks the global economy.
Not gradually. Violently.
Every physical good on earth gets repriced overnight.
Today it was an accident that was contained.
The bridge held. The canal stayed open.
The darker question is one nobody wants to ask out loud: in a world where Iran just published target lists of Gulf bridges and infrastructure, what if the next explosion near a critical chokepoint isn't an accident?
The global economy runs on three narrow waterways.
Two are already compromised.
The third just had a fireball ignited next to it.
Source: @Michael_Yon
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇵🇦Panama says at least one person was killed in the explosion at a tank farm near the Panama Canal.
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Boar's Head distributors say they were "controlled" and "bullied" by the deli meat giant in my latest report on the company since its listeria outbreak nypost.com/2026/04/06/bus…
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Nutella just got the most badass free ad in maybe human history.
A jar of it floated across the camera on the Artemis II livestream, halfway to the Moon, completely unbothered.
All it took was zero gravity and a very good brand moment.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸 NASA'S Artemis II crew has broken the Apollo 13 record for the farthest human spaceflight, which was set over 50 years ago. Apollo 13’s record was 248,655 miles away from Earth, Artemis II hit the 248,656-mile marker as it flew past the moon at nearly 2,000 mph. Their new distance record is expected to end up around 252,757 miles. Source: NY Post
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#Hermione's 57thSt connect: #EmmaWatson's boyfriend revealed as mystery tenant who paid a record $370/sf for a top floor at #9West. #Mexican #GonzaloBailleres took down 5,063 ft on Floor 50 for 10 years. #HBeyond #realestate #CRE #NYC #mortgage #Soloviev therealdeal.com/new-york/2026/…
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