Posts with tag real estate boom

Before you start worrying about college waiting lists, you can prepare by worrying about your kid landing on the waiting list for the local public elementary school -- if you live in New York City, that is. Thanks to the real estate boom and bust, the little red school house around the corner -- in the neighborhood you... Continue Reading »

Just when you thought that every last mom-and-pop store in your neighborhood was succumbing to yet another garish, badly designed bank branch, comes good news: the Invasion of the Bank Branches is coming to an end. A massive expansion in bank branches during the economic boom -- some 10,000 opened between 2004 and 2005... Continue Reading »