Very lame - don't you have anything better to do, Lat?

I wonder what Loyola 2L's apartment looks like. Efficiency in the Bronx? Bed at the YMCA? Maytag box?

I'll be making $2,500 after taxes when I graduate. Subtract $1,100 each month for student loan payments and I have a cool $1,400 to spend on rent. I plan on stealing everything else.

I bet the views from that mid-building terrace are spectacular. I wonder if it's open to all residents or just to certain unit owners.

It's only open to people who graduated from tier 1.

Tier 1 party in the tower this Friday. Come dressed as your favorite Tier 2 2L.

years ago I stayed for two nights at the Vanderbilt YMCA waiting for NYU student housing to be available. It was a pay by the day place. On day 3, the front desk discovered that my next door neighbor, who had not paid in several days, had hung himself in his room. Two days later on my first trip on the E train from W. 4th Street to Wall Street a fellow had a heart attack in front of me. The ever efficient NYPD and parademics came on the train at the old WTC stop and whisked him away. Welcome to Wall Street indeed

You are seriously desperate for stuff on Brokeback Lawfirm, huh? Have you checked the docket for the case? Anything coming up maybe?

The posts glorifying Charney's apartment seem to me a highly misleading portrayal of his likely real estate situation. Now I realize this is all a tongue and cheek treatment of Charney etc. and I am all for that.

But the reality of it is that associates at large NY law firms work long hours, are reasonably well-educated and credentialed yet live in cramped apartments. The shiny exterior of that apartment building conceals the reality that compared to their peers in other cities, NY law associates don't live very well.

The posts make it seem that Charney et al have luxurious living situations, when that is just not so. I suppose there is no harm to that: most people reading these posts are all too familiar with these facts and the posts are as I said above tongue and cheek.

But for what it is worth, I find these posts annoying in the same way that a stupid TV show about the law is annoying.

The earlier post has more detail, including speculation as to apartment size:

http://www.abovethelaw.com/2007/02/lawyerly_lairs_aaron_charneys_1.php

Six hundred square feet is hardly palatial. I wouldn't say this coverage "glorifies" Charney's digs.

What is with all the tier 1, tier 2, tier 3 BS?

Loyola 2L - are you neurotic?

The building looks real nice - any shots of the lobby?

The "spectacular" view from the mid-building terrace would probably include the mosquito-breeding ground known as Lake Related (http://www.curbed.com/archives/2007/01/05/hells_kitchen_swimming_hole_might_go_hotel.php) and the glorious parking lot atop the Port Authority Bus Terminal next door to the Orion. Oh, and the smog-choked portal to the Lincoln Tunnel around the corner. You might be able to see bits of scenic New Jersey, too.

I live in Hell's Kitchen and love the neighborhood. But I wouldn't want to live in that building.

Does the coverage "glorify"?

Well, in this post Lat refers to the building as a "luxury" high rise, a "gleaming tower" that would have looked "more glorious" in better light.

In the previous post, Lat introduces the post as a part of a series that profiles the "luxurious homes of prominent figures within the legal profession." While he concedes Charney's apartment is not as lavish as the $20M, $29M apts he had previously profiled (or the $2.8M "mansion") -- hardly saying much -- he said Charney lived in a "luxury high rise." He then gushed about the amenities; "Awesome" he said.

He then noted the likely squarefootage, but said it was "palatial" for NYC. (Your comment 10:27 that 600 is hardly palatial is correct, but Lat said otherwise for NYC, that is part of the "glorifying" aspect to this coverage)

Lastly, Lat noted that Rachael Hunter toured the place.

I think "glorifying" is a reasonable characterization of this coverage. Like I said before, it is fine being campy etc. and part of that schtick plays on the fact that it is not true. I just said that I find it a bit annoying. Others might not, but let's not pretend this coverage isnt' glorifying -- that is the whole point (indeed, part of the whole point is that it clearly isn't true)

Aaron's building looks sterile to me - more like an office building than a residential one.

I used to live across the street from this building in the "Ivy Tower," and could never figure out why anyone would pay that much to have such an incredible veiw of the port authority bus ramp to the south, the port authority parking lot and NY times building to the east the lincoln tunnel traffic and relative grossness to the west (probably the best view) and my building to the north. The block is loud and filled with 'colorful' hang-a-bouts from the bus terminal, particularly late at night on the weekends.