Corcoran: Your lawn must go

Posted by Steve on Sunday, November 11th, 2007

A Queens resident recently wrote to real-estate doyenne Barbara Corcoran asking her if he should rip out his lawn to build a driveway, like all the cool kids are doing. Quoth Corcoran in her Daily News column:

Hey, a flower garden might look pretty and keep your wife happy, but the space in front of your house is worth a hell of a lot more as a driveway.

Lovely! I feel kind of ridiculous claiming I know more about real estate than Barbara Corcoran, who has become very very very rich selling it, but ripping out lawns to create driveways makes the neighborhood hideous, which, in the long run, decreases the value of the property. Corcoran implores the writer to hurry up and kill the lawn right quick, because the “city council of Queens” — we have a city council now? — is enacting legislation to ban exactly this sort of thing for exactly the reason I just described.

But! I do have one question. When Corcoran moves into a neighborhood, it’s a sign that the neighborhood is about to become hot. Corcoran has no operations in Central Queens. If she loves paved-over lawns so much, why not? She’ll find them here in spades.

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