Morning update: Sweet deals for high-end renters, Roger Goodell called unfit
Good Friday morning, Boston. Here’s all the news you need to know while you’re looking ahead to a long holiday weekend.
Big-money renters holding all the cards: “ With so many new luxury apartments coming onto the market, landlords are increasingly competing for tenants able to afford rents that can start at $2,800 for a studio and be two or three times that for two-bedrooms.
Agents marketing newer buildings are offering a month or two of free rent, or a break on brokers’ fees. Meanwhile, owners of older brownstones in the Back Bay and the South End are cutting rents to compete. The competition is a noticeable shift, real estate brokers said, from the go-go days of the past few years, when it felt as if landlords held all the cards and rents could only go up.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Columnist Sally Jenkins: Roger Goodell not fit to serve as NFL commissioner: “Goodell pushed a bad case purely out of hubris and overconfidence, sure of finding a friendly federal judge to cooperate with his power-consolidating agenda. But the days of preferential treatment are over for the NFL — and for Goodell personally. One byproduct of the Brady decision will be a dawning awareness by NFL owners that they need a more worldly and less entitled man to run the league office at 345 Park Avenue, to replace the hermetically sealed-in arrogance of Goodell’s reign.’’ (The Washington Post)
Patriots fans have to wait another week to cheer for TB12: “Chris Boswell kicked four field goals and the New York Giants finished off the preseason with a 12-9 victory Thursday over the New England Patriots, who had already won a much larger victory earlier in the day.
A federal judge vacated the NFL’s four-game suspension of Tom Brady, clearing the Patriots star quarterback for the regular season opener and beyond.
Brady was among the many starters not playing for either team in the preseason finale.
The Patriots left the offense in the hands of third-stringer Ryan Lindley, who completed 22 of 45 for 253 yards with one interception and a late fumble.’’ (The Associated Press)
Stumping Trump? “Donald J. Trump revealed gaps in his mastery of international affairs during a radio interview on Thursday, appearing to mistake the Quds Force, an Iranian military group, for the Kurds, a Middle Eastern people, and growing testy over questions about foreign leaders.
“You’re asking me names that — I think it’s somewhat ridiculous,’’ Mr. Trump told Hugh Hewitt, a popular conservative radio show host. “As far as the individual players, of course I don’t know them. I’ve never met them. I haven’t been, you know, in a position to meet them.’’ (The New York Times)
The Goodbye: How Patriots fans celebrated Judge Berman’s decision on Brady:
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