Articles for November 21st, 2005
GET LATHERED UP
If you’re wondering what happened to Avocado Tree — that fresh and fragrant purveyor of handmade soaps and lotions on Henderson Avenue — fret not. The name’s changed to Apothecurious but the same sudsy fun and can be found at its old location as well as its new West Village boutique. Great gifts ideas abound at both shops with — thankfully — nary a soap on the rope to be found.
SPAM AND THE FAM
We are back in Big D after a delightful NYC weekend saw Spamalot, laughed so hard my cheeks hurt, shopped on Fifth and enjoyed the Safety: Design Takes On Risk Exhibit at the MOMA
..loved a large plastic hat/umbrella that I would seriously buy…also liked the portable, inflatable housing bubbles for the homeless in see-through apple-green plastic because the homeless do not like to be invisible. My husbands medical school stomping grounds in Washington Heights have REALLY changed — ironically theres Dallas BBQs and (Malcolm) X Caffe. These young med students have it so easy, he grumbled.
We saw how redevelopment is heading further uptown, and the neighborhoods in the 106s where I dared not venture years ago now look pretty inviting. The whole city is pretty inviting and yes, after perusing prices half a million buys my old studio apartment on 119th and Morningside Drive, maybe — Dallas high rises sure do look like a bargain.
ONE..MILLION..DOLLARS
We recently were musing about D Home’s annual Million Dollar Home issue, wondering in this day and age whether “million-dollar” wasn’t just a quaint throwback. Sort of like calling something the Cadillac of its class. And indeed, the recently released Census Bureau’s 2004 American Community Survey found 1,034,386 homes in the U.S. valued at $1 million or more. You can’t get a decent two-bedroom apartment on New York’s Upper East Side for a million dollars, and in Orange County, more than 46,000 houses are valued at $1 million and up. But Dallas, lovely Dallas, is still undervalued. Tax appraisals for Dallas, Denton, Tarrant and Collin counties combined list only 5,700 homes valued at $1 milllion plus. For now, our Million Dollar Home issue sounds just right.
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