Off-topic; Rufus is a troll with several different screen names who doesn't live in New York.

nyny1 what does it mean that rufus' IP address was "run on another NY forum"?

I don't like rufus more than the next guy (I'm not new to SE, like Clinton suggested) but what kind of bullcrap are you spouting?

> what does it mean that rufus' IP address was "run on another NY forum"?

It means someone looked up the IP address his posts were made from, to determine his actual location... basically they figured out the source of the posts was a computer not in NYC.

why all the hate...if rufus wants to vent then let him..Free Speech!

someone being who? a site administrator?
but interesting nontheless. I just did a geolocate on my IP address, and despite sitting square in Manhattan, the IP lookup put me in 5 locations: Herndon, VA, Herndon, KY, Washingtonville, NY, New York, NY and Brooklyn, NY. All I did was google IP geolocator and checked the top 5 links.

> why all the hate...if rufus wants to vent then let him..Free Speech!

Idiot, why the hell does he need to make 10 different screen names to vent? He can vent until he drops dead, but it's annoying having to continually put him on "ignore" since he posts as 10 different people. I honestly don't mind the fact that he is dead seat on pretending he lives in NYC, and rehashing everything he's heard on Curbed at the end of the week, but do it on one freaking screen name so I don't have to read drivel!

And yes his IP address was traced by an admin on skyscrapercity.com and he doesn't live in NYC.

"but interesting nontheless. I just did a geolocate on my IP address, and despite sitting square in Manhattan, the IP lookup put me in 5 locations: Herndon, VA, Herndon, KY, Washingtonville, NY, New York, NY and Brooklyn, NY. All I did was google IP geolocator and checked the top 5 links."

stop using aol.

can we get a little linkage to the threads Rufus was on on this 'skyscrapercity' forum I'm not familiar with? I could use a laugh...

Every forum has trolls. Learn it - Live it - Love it.

yeah, can't find a search function... post the link to classis rufus..

He posts under so many different names so it's hard to find, but I'm trying to find a few of his posts on other NY boards.

Here are a few, for starters...

http://www.city-data.com/forum/new-york-city/399780-nyc-so-dirty-overrated.html
http://www.city-data.com/forum/new-york-city/406489-i-wish-nyc-had-more-supertall.html

(notice they were both banned, including others which I don't remember, because they were both Rufus sycophantically posting under different names)

So Rugus, first you live in Chicago and then you lived in NY under the "torque" name. Which is it?

banned?

LOL, if you see a post about high rise condos, chicago, upscale, projects and garbage then it has to be dorky Rufus.

and can someone on streeteasy please ban the troll?

RR1, like you aren't a troll too

Rufus, is that you??

Here is another one.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=711172

Rufus, is that you??

Here is another one.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=711172

Oh my god, that is SO rufus. "livable" and "falling behind" so many other rufus-isms.

Wow, the guy isn't even here! But we knew that...

Oh my god, I thought rufus was pathetic, but this is ridiculous.

That thread is hilarious! I get it if Rufus wants to say that New York is behind Hong Kong in arch but CHICAGO??? hahahahahahhaa!

rufus must have gotten a job as a real estate broker in Chicago after failing miserably in NYC. This if the worst, lowest kind of broker I've seen. Trying to market the whole city in another city's forums. And he picked NYC which is far, far, SUPERIOR than Chicago. rufus should start with a city like Topeka, Kansas or something and he may have a chance, and may have an argument. LOL!

RAM123....clearly his initials...Rufus A. Mental

Chicago has built more highrise condos in the last few years than NYC has. Just compare the new developments between the two cities. Of course, much of that has to do with the lack of space in NYC, along with various regulations.

> Just compare the new developments between the two cities.

NYC added 30k new apartments in 2008...

And more people are moving out of Chicago than in...

Nice try Rufus, errrrm, I mean, JohnAnthony.

The "JohnAnthony" alias was revealed a long time ago.

Try again Rufus.

Oh JohnAnthony/Rufus, New York City has built far more high rise condos and skyscrapers than Chicago has in the last few years.

According to Skyscraper Page:

Current amount of high rise skyscrapers under construction.

New York City: 154
Chicago: 62

As a matter of fact, we currently have 6,054 skyscrapers in New York and Chicago only has 1,075. So we have nearly 6 times more skyscrapers than Chicago, yet you insist that Chicago has more high rises. What planet are you living on?

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?cityID=8
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?cityID=4

Rufus, why is it that you don't like facts? You're always fighting facts dude.

it is called pathology people

Yeah, that number includes office buildings and hotels.

There is no doubt that Chicago has put up more highrise residential buildings in the last 5 years than NYC.

Wow. Always had my suspicions he didn't live in NYC but now this confirms it. He really does live in Chicago and just trolls on NYC websites. Talk about an inferiority complex.

"There is no doubt that Chicago has put up more highrise residential buildings in the last 5 years than NYC. "

If rufus says it, its 100% doubtful.

Not sure if he's that stupid or just lying, but he's pretty consistenly wrong.

I vote with stupid.

^ Check the Chelsea thread. He screamed that Chicago was the cleanest place on earth and in one minute I found multiple articles on how Chicago's garbage men wind up spending half they day drinking and pissing in the street. But maybe to Rufus that means cleanliness?