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Where the Main Drag Is Called Straight Path
Wyandanch, a hamlet in Babylon, N.Y., offers modest single-family homes, but is in need of revitalization.
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THE elevated subway line that clatters northward through the Bronx on White Plains Road comes to an unceremonious stop, just before the city line, at 241st Street. After the hulking metal tracks end,...
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Big Neighborhood, Wide Housing Variety
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, attracts residents with its ethnic diversity, affordability and relative greenness.
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Borough Park, Brooklyn
Religious tradition and ritual touch nearly every aspect of life in this neighborhood, which is home to one of the largest Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish populations in the United States.
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Potential Awaits Its Moment - Living in/Mott Haven, the Bronx
A move to gentrify late in the last decade stalled as the larger economy did, but officials and residents of Mott Haven say the conditions are right for another resurgence.
View ArticleHouses Are Few, but Not Far Between
FINDING a home with room for a family can be hard enough in New York City. But when Barden and Catherine Prisant decided to sell their house in the East Village because a tall building was to go up...
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Sunset Park, Brooklyn/Living In - Low-Slung, but With a High Perch
An area that draws food tourists and bargain hunters offers relatively affordable real estate. Not to mention the express subway service.
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Red Hook, Brooklyn/Living In - An Outlier Near the ‘Center of the Universe’
Once safely on New York’s fringes, this Brooklyn neighborhood is becoming more integrated into the fabric of the city.
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Brooklyn Apartments to Generate Their Own Power
A Brooklyn developer is renovating a Park Slope brownstone so that it generates as much energy as it uses.
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Sensible, Even on Scarlett Drive and Rhett Court
Shopping and affordable real estate are in abundant supply in Commack, a Suffolk County community not far from the North Shore beaches.
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Houses Are Few, but Not Far Between
A dizzying variety of home styles make up the housing stock in this Brooklyn neighborhood — from Queen Anne, to Federal, to Japanese.
View ArticleLow Taxes in a Town With 60% Parkland
THERE was a time before the strip malls were built in Stony Point, the northernmost town in Rockland County, when the roads were dirt and Main Street bustled with businesses like Malloy's Pharmacy and...
View ArticleIf You're Thinking of Living In/Centereach, L.I.; A Backwater Blooms in a...
JUST to the north of Centereach, along the North Shore of Long Island, communities such as Setauket, Stony Brook and Port Jefferson have flourished since the 18th century. But until about a half...
View ArticleIf You're Thinking of Living In / The Turtle Bay Neighborhood; In U.N.'s...
FOR 30 years, Sherrill K. de Gonzaga and her family have lived in Embassy House at 301 East 47th Street in the Turtle Bay neighborhood. It is a short walk from the United Nations headquarters on First...
View ArticleIf You're Thinking of Living In/Morningside Heights; 2 Parks Sandwich Town...
RISING above the rugged hills overlooking the Hudson River, the soaring Gothic spires of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, at Amsterdam Avenue and 110th Street, and the venerable modernist...
View ArticleIf You're Thinking of Living In/Fort Greene; Diversity, Culture and...
SPIKE LEE has relocated to the Upper East Side and Spike's Joint, his boutique at the corner of South Elliot Place and Lafayette Avenue, is history, but the filmmaker's lens still frames the image of...
View ArticleIf You're Thinking of Living In/Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn; Where Water Is Big...
THE neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay, which struggled in the 1980's and early 90's, has been making a comeback in recent years. So too, it appears, is the fish for which the bay is named. The creature...
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A Bohemian Neighborhood with a Softer Edge
Tompkins Square Park and its adjoining blocks have experienced drastic changes in the last 20 years, as crime rates have plummeted and housing prices have climbed.
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Wal-Mart Far; Reservoirs Near
Somers, N.Y., has a landscape of trees, hills and reservoirs that is punctuated by buildings, most tucked in discreetly along winding, hilly streets.
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Prosperous Area Seeks Shops to Match
Laurelton, known for its stately Tudor homes, is working to overcome challenges to the neighborhood’s family-friendly image.
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