When looking for a home with a view, some prefer city lights, some the soaring blue canopy of Big Sky country, and some just want a place that doesn’t overlook the Dumpsters in the alley (you know, the ones that get emptied at 5 a.m. by a clanging, thunderously loud garbage truck whose metallic thumping is accompanied by a chorus of swearing from a group of preternaturally active sanitation workers jacked up on Dunkin’ Donuts coffee). And then there are those who want to live in a mansion close to a body of water, be it a lake, a bay, or the wide-open ocean. These are the waterfront homes that compound the expense of luxury living with the costs of coastal real estate, resulting in eye-popping architecture and sudden-fits-of-coughing-inducing listing prices. Case in point: these 10 expensive coastal homes on the market. From the shores of Lake Tahoe to the seaside cliffs of Big Sur, these luxury homes embrace the inherent drama of waterfront living.

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http://curbed.com/archives/2014/11/07/10-lavishly-dramatic-waterfront-estates-for-sale.php

There will be a test of the Indian Point sirens in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and Orange Counties on Thursday at approximately 10:30 a.m, according to an announcement on westchestergov.com.

This sounding is only a test and no action by the public is necessary, the announcement said.

The sirens would sound continuously at full volume for four minutes, followed by the broadcast of an Emergency Alert System (EAS) message on radio and television stations during an actual emergency. Sirens are not a signal to evacuate, but rather for people to tune to an EAS radio or TV station for information and instructions.

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http://mtkisco.dailyvoice.com/news/indian-point-sirens-will-be-tested-thursday

The real life version of one of the human personifications of the word “douchebag” from the movie The Wolf of Wall Street has put his two-story Tribeca maisonette on the market and it is just the worst thing you can possibly imagine.

Alan Wilzig, who is described by The Real Deal as an “entrepreneur and semi-professional race car driver,” was the character in the Martin Scorsese film who showed up to a party and introduced Leonardo DiCaprio’s character to his future wife. Wilzig later took to Facebook (again, in the words of the The Real Deal) to “[criticize] Scorsese for leaving out the fact that Wilzig had arrived at the party in his red Ferrari Testarossa.” Taking that into account, the listing makes perfect sense — it seems about 20 percent invested in displaying the apartment to prospective buyers and 80 percent invested in showing off his huge collection of motorcycles and multi-colored lightbulbs. The whole place looks like it was designed by a spoiled six-year-old.

Wilzig is asking $43.5 million. Good. Luck.

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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/08/real_life_wolf_of_wall_street_character_lists_home_for_44m.php