May your days be long and your bathroom breaks never a departure from the experience.
My theory is that if a bathroom looks like this in 2026, the building serves enough social and economic utility to warrant preservation at all costs.
@hallegilb likes to say that bathrooms are a window into the soul of a place.
I may start a real estate fund on this premise.
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When I moved to New York, I somehow ended up with a view of the Empire State Building at home and at work. As if I’d been cast in a procedural about an architecturally inclined young man moving to the big city.
I loved every second of it.
And around the same time, I learned that in 2024, its observatory accounted for nearly a quarter of Empire State Realty Trust’s net operating income. I wanted to understand why.
Here’s the second episode of Ordinary Business, my new show with @Quartr_App:
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The Billiard Room at the Commercial Club, Pearl Street and South Meridian, 1907.
(Bass Photo Co Collection, Indiana Historical Society)
Dong Kingman’s watercolor menu designs for Pan Am: San Francisco, Miami, Bangkok, and Africa. 1970s-80s.
