The writing index
Richard Joseph Spinelli publishes on Medium and Blogger and across four sites of his own, and this index, kept under the Richard J. Spinelli spelling, lists all of it with one line per entry written for this page. Essays first, then pages, grouped by where they live.
Essays
Medium
Old Bronx Housing Stock Rewards Patient Renovation
Why a century old walk up repays a room by room renovation and punishes a fast one.
Density Buys Speed and Speed Keeps Residents
A group decides in a day, and the operator who can open the door that afternoon usually wins.
Reputation Is the Cheapest Marketing in Student Housing
Around one campus every turn week is a review, published by the people who lived through it.
A Maintenance Radius You Can Walk Changes Everything
Response time is the product, and geography decides it more than staffing does.
One Neighborhood Is a Complete Real Estate Strategy
The case for pressing a small portfolio into a few blocks instead of spreading it across a city.
Blogger
A Walkable Portfolio Changes Who You Can Hire
Trades and staff work differently when every building is on the same three streets.
Storm Response Is Simpler When Every Building Is Close
A hard rain hits the whole block at once, and a close portfolio answers it as one job.
Student Housing Leasing Works Better as One Inventory
Listing every unit as a single pool lets a group see all of its options in one afternoon.
Student Housing Repairs Need a Small Bench of Trades
A plumber who has seen the boiler before diagnoses in minutes what a stranger bills a morning for.
Pages on his sites
richardjosephspinelli.com
The starting point: what he does, where, and how to reach him.
A biography with a timeline in the margin.
The company in four moves and one goal.
richardspinellisandhills.com
Three decisions that hold each other up, and what each one costs.
The lease read aloud, line by line, before anyone signs it.
Showing process for student groups
Six steps from a group text to keys off the inventory, each with an owner and a clock.
The August list, written in spring, that turns thirteen buildings as one job.
aboutrichardjosephspinelli.com
Six short parts, from Chestnut Hill to home, with nothing guessed.
Forty two miles in loops with no plan, then a marathon run exactly to one.
A streak in Flushing Meadows and a goal across three continents.
richardjosephspinellinyc.com
The neighborhood behind Arthur Avenue, from its boundaries to its institutions.
The rooms, ovens, counters and bakeries, sorted by how you eat there.
No subway on the avenue, so a train and a walk, with a diagram.
The Retail Market, stall by stall
What each counter in the 1940 market is for, and what to carry home.