ELARA
The real estate agent's name was Constance Park, and she operated with the brisk efficiency of someone who had spent twenty years watching wealthy people make decisions about space.
She was maybe fifty, Korean-American, with reading glasses pushed up on her forehead and a leather portfolio that contained, she explained when we shook hands, every relevant listing in the neighborhoods I'd specified, organized by square footage and pre-war construction date, cross-referenced by building financial health and proximity to the 1/2/3 line.
"You said Upper West Side," she said. "You said prewar details and a study. You said you work from home occasionally. You did not say budget, which means either you have one and forgot to mention it, or you don't have one, which based on Anya's message
