Was just reading an article on "who owns Manhattan"
( one real estate type says there are 30 or 40 families,
who, along with Trinity Church, own an incredible amount of
the real estate here).
http://www.quora.com/Who-owns-the-most-real-estate-land-in-Manhattan
Bruce Feldman writes there
"Most
of the real estate in Manhattan is owned by a handful (perhaps 30-40)
of long-standing real estate "families," the largest of which is the
Estate of Sol Goldman, who died in 1986 and who, at the time, was one of
the largest owners of real estate in New York City. Currently, the
largest owner of properties is probably Trinity Church, which at one
time owned almost the entirety of lower Manhattan but still owns major
properties and office buildings throughout lower Manhattan. "
Also know foreign investors and co-investors own all sorts of
property here...remember hearing Donald Trump speak about it
at a business meeting here long ago ( he knows more
about real estate in NYC than many other topics). Columbia
University and NYU own a lot,
I can tell you that..
Which made we wonder what the state of American Agribusiness
was like these days...found
a really good but pretty academic article about it
http://web.missouri.edu/~ikerdj/papers/Wash%20DC%20Reclaim.htm
There are also articles on the internet about the probable
effects of run off of
chemicals from agribusiness all over the U.S.
You can google up a lot on this sort of topic..
Every once in a while, a show like 60 Minutes runs
something about some aspect of topics
like these but we do not hear much about them
( sometimes, in my paranoid moods, I feel
we are DEFINITELY NOT to suppose to know about them)
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