But from a real estate perspective, at first blush the District does not appear to fit the bill.
The emphasis on upper level real estate development at first confuses some students, who come expecting to learn how to be better residential brokers.
According to "New York 1880" by Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman, real estate interests at first projected that West End would become a shopping street for grander structures on Broadway and Riverside Drive.
On the site for the Charles, a new 27-unit, 31-story condo from Bluerock Real Estate at 1355 First Avenue near East 73rd Street, a map shows the future Q and T stop at East 72nd.
In their case, the topic was Miami real estate at the first "Haute Living Real Estate Summit " held at the W South Beach Hotel.
If you'd written it so that your kids would receive one third of your estate at 25, another third at 30 and the final third at 35 and all of them are older than 28 you may decide that they're responsible enough to receive the full sum at the time of your death.
This popular five-story library at 20 West 53rd Street - just north of Rockefeller Center, whose architecture it was designed to compliment - was closed in 2008 and sold to a real estate developer that at first planned to put in a hotel but instead, after the financial crisis struck, sold it to a second developer that is in the process of constructing a high-rise condo tower on the property.
In some cases, these investors are putting their money into real estate, an asset that at first glance seems to carry its own burdens, especially so soon after the bursting of the real estate bubble.
Later, when I wrote Wodehouse: A Life, I saw the author's estate managing its holdings at first hand.
At first, estate agents refused to let her a flat on the grounds that she was a single woman.
