The National Weather service has issued a tornado watch for Westchester through 5 p.m. Monday.
A tornado watch means conditions are favorable for severe thunderstorms to form, but it also means that a few storms may be capable of producing a tornado, according to the National Weather Service. A tornado warning is the ultimate in severe warnings and means that a tornado is either occurring or imminent based on radar.
http://mtkisco.dailyvoice.com/news/tornado-watch-effect-westchester-monday
So much in business isn’t black and white, but there are some simple ways to increase your customer engagement and attract more sales. Creating a user-friendly website is a good place to start. For example, according to information compiled by online marketing firm Reach Local, 46 percent of consumers use their smartphones to research products or businesses. So, making your website mobile-friendly is crucial.
For more tips to improve your company’s website, check out the infographic below.
Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228217#ixzz2h2g3YjRW
Famed actress Susan Sarandon has unloaded one of her three New York City apartments to her musician son, by way of a trust overseen by the ex-wife of television personality Geraldo Rivera and a veteran Hollywood actress.
Sarandon transferred the apartment at 334 Grand Avenue in Clinton Hill for $900,000 — the same price she paid for it in January 2012 — to a trust named after Miles Robbins, her son with long-time partner, the actor Tim Robbins, property records filed with the city today show.
The trustees of the Lancaster, Pa.-based trust are Edith Vonnegut, the daughter of noted novelist Kurt Vonnegut and Rivera’s former wife, and actress Lynn Cohen, who has appeared on the television show “Sex and the City” and is part of the cast of the upcoming “Hunger Games” film.
Sarandon won an Academy Award in 1996 for her leading role in “Dead Man Walking” and is a four-time Oscar nominee. Her more memorable film roles include “Thelma & Louise” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
Miles Robbins, 21, is a musician and has appeared in a few of his mom’s films, including “The Greatest” and “Dead Man Walking.”
The two-bedroom, two-bathroom, 2,500-square-foot apartment includes 17-foot ceilings, a vaulted skylight, a working fireplace and 25-foot long rooms, according to the most recent listing.
Artist Danny Simmons, the older brother of music maven Russell Simmons, was the apartment’s previous owner. He put it on and off the market over the course of six years, beginning in May 2006, when it was priced at $1.25 million, StreetEasy and city property records show. Russell’s name was on the deed of the apartment until 2005, records show.
Toni Martin of the Corcoran Group had the listing when Sarandon purchased the home. She could not immediately be reached for comment.
Sarandon also owns a West Village penthouse at 61 West 9th Street, which she purchased in June 2011 for $1.75 million, as previously reported. She also owns a co-op at 147 West 15th Street in Chelsea, which she purchased from Tom Robbins for $3.2 million in June 2011 after they split.
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/10/03/susan-sarandon-hands-over-clinton-hill-pad-to-rocker-son/
These collard greens from the Memphis restaurant Hog and Hominy are seasoned hot pepper vinegar and an Italian sausage called Nduja (pronounced en-doo-ya). Nduja sausage has a spicy flavor and spreadable texture. If you can’t find Nduja, any soft Italian sausage will work.
The flavor of these greens is so delicious, but I think it’s the addition of hominy kernels that really makes them a stand out.
Submerge the collard greens in a large bowl of water and swish them around vigorously to remove the grit. Drain the greens and repeat two more times.
Warm a large saucepan over medium-high heat and add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Add the onions and sauté them until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the Nduja and bacon and sauté until the bacon starts to get crisp, about 3 minutes. Add the pepper vinegar and stir to scrape up the brown bits on the pan bottom. Add the greens, cover with the stock, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer until the greens are tender, about 45 minutes.
Just before serving, add the hominy and pepper vinegar to taste. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Serve hot with lots of potlikker (sauce from boiling the greens).
http://www.pallensmith.com/food/recipes/hog-and-hominy-collard-greens
Are the numbers of first-time buyers shrinking, victimized by cash-bearing investors, credit-tight lenders mounting mortgage interest rates and soaring home prices? Are they “increasingly getting left behind in the real-estate recovery” as the Journal reported n July?
Well, not exactly, argue two economists from the Atlanta Federal Reserve. Reports based on surveys of Realtors to the contrary, first timers are doing just well as ever, thank you very much. “We do not share the concern about weakness in housing demand going forward because we are not convinced that the data indicates a material decline in first-time buyer participation,” concluded researchers Jessica Dill and Ellyn Terry.
Examining date from the Census Bureau’s American Housing Survey Public Use Microdata and the Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey as well as other sources.
Claims of a decline in first-time buyer participation that appear to be based on a comparison of data across different surveys should be treated with caution, they said. There are several sources of data available for tracking the first-time buyer share of market. “In comparing the trends of each series separately, we don’t find there to be much in the way of a material decline in the share of first-time home buyers over the time periods and data series we examined.”
They examined the monthly American Housing Survey time series and he long-term linear trend line from October 1983 through September 2011 was slightly upward-sloping. Many have argued, though, that the first-time homebuyer tax credit program pulled demand forward and that the tax credit period (July 2008-September 2010) distorts the overall long-term trend. Indeed, when we exclude this time period, we find that the slope becomes slightly downward-sloping. They observed a similar trend when we fit a trend line to the National Association of Realtors’ Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers time series. From 2001 through 2012, the trend is slightly upward-sloping when they included the tax credit period and slightly downwardly-sloping when they excluded the tax credit period.
http://www.realestateeconomywatch.com/2013/09/false-alarm-first-time-buyers-are-not-declining/
Before all the Andy Warhol interest decamps for the Lower East Side’s future Andy Warhol museum, one more moment (or 15) for the Warhol house at 1342 Lexington Avenue. Warhol used to own the house and lived there between 1959 and 1974, with his mother, 25 cats, and a number of the objects (yep, we’re talking about Campbell’s Soup cans, among other things) he included in some of his most famous paintings. The townhouse’s current owners listed it in April for $5.795 million. The place has sold for $5.5 million, the Daily News reports.
The sellers purchased the house for $3.5 million in 2011 and spent another $1 million on the home’s renovation—a far cry from the $60,000 Warhol spent on the place back in 1959.
Here’s the current floorplan:
· Andy Warhol’s Upper East Side townhouse sells for $5.5M [NYDN] · 1342 Lexington Avenue coverage [Curbed]
These new guidelines though have raised the following question.
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After an injury-induced hiatus, former Celtics star Larry Bird is back in commission as the Indiana Pacers team president, and is thus selling his Florida mansion, which he built from the ground up in the late ’90s, for $4.8M. The design scheme for the 6,000-square-foot, four-bedroom home leaves a lot to be desired—unless you love beige drapes and columns—but with a 10-person home theater, an infinity pool, a tiki hut, and a full-service bar with the obvious—a built-in aquarium—the Bird’s Naples hideaway is nothing if not a roarin’ good time. No word yet on whether Bird plans on dropping by for a little one on one, but one can dare to dream.
http://curbed.com/archives/2013/09/26/larry-birds-party-ready-florida-mansion-listed-for-48m.php
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