This is for the first videocast that I’ve ever gone to YouTube before writing the story.

I knew that I wanted to do a piece on Prince Street Copy and the owner of the store had told me prior to filming about his tourist attraction woe, but I wanted to find some video that would crack me up about the copy machine. The two clips that you saw at the beginning and end of this videocast did just that.

I’m not sure if Bushie would be laughing quite as hard as I was, but maybe he’s got some low-brow toilet humor in him? Regardless, as long as you were laughing, I’m happy.

I’ve been obsessed with 110 Livingston ever since the building went condo. I’m not sure if it was all the PR the marketing folks did (advertising on subways, magazines and newspapers) or if I’m just, well, obsessed.

In any event, I was in Ohio over Thanksgiving when I noticed Max Abelson’s article in the New York Observer about the lawsuit being filed against the developer of 110 Livingston.

Stuffed with turkey, I knew it was time to dig for scoop.

Once I returned to New York and began obsessing some more, I became concerned that security at 110 might be a problem. But the doorman was very nice — even with my cameraman in tow — he bent over backwards to help us get to the tenant who I had scheduled the interview with. The apartment you saw, although full of boxes, was really quite lovely with soaring ceilings and nice details. The hallways were still under construction, with pink paper lining the carpeting of the floors and plenty of workmen milling about.

The attorney who you met on the videocast, Lisa Breier Urban, kept going back to the fact that it’s imperative that your real estate attorney examine the offering plan so that you understand what you are (or are not) getting when you’re buying air in the sky.

I had early morning meetings in Midtown the day we filmed this videocast, and when my colleagues asked what I was taping that day I told them I was working on a story about office condos. Every person in that meeting looked confused.

“Can you sleep in there?” one asked.

“Does it have a sauna room?” another inquired.

Office condos have actually been around for some time, but New York is only beginning to see the trend take shape here.

A special thanks to Michael Rudder, who was able to convince the executive director at Overcoming Obstacles to come IntoTheBox at a moment’s notice.