The
Luxembourg House in New York
Last Summer I strolled around Beekman Place and was shocked. The Luxembourg
House, is sitting on prestigious Beekman Place, where real estate prices for
this kind of building are approaching $ 50 million. I was shocked how run down
the outside of The Luxembourg House looks. And I dutifully reported on it, in this blog, hoping for some kind of action.
Like dipping into the development aid fund to make repairs to our own House. Or
maybe find volunteers to clean the railings and door frames, and give a layer of paint. We don't want to
embarrass ourselves in this posh neighborhood, by looking like the pauper on
the block.
Nothing
was done. It is true, that Luxembourg rules the world at this moment, chairing
the UN Security Council. That suffers no paint distraction.
But my friends
at the WSJ took over. The article " Beekman Place Makes the Most of Two Blocks" , a fake real estate story in last Sunday's edition, is used by WSJ
as a pretext to plant an embarrassing picture of the "Luxembourg
Mission". Rusted railing and soiled door front are sabotaging the much
advertised new Luxembourg branding campaign about creating a new brand for
Luxembourg. May I suggest that as long as the House looks neglected, we don't
raise the Luxembourg flag on it and remove the coat of arms at the front door.
You know, just because of the gossiping neighbors.
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