My Affordable Real Estate

Some small businesses are finding a silver lining in the recessionary clouds: they suddenly have leverage with their landlords.

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With the economy in a tailspin and credit tight, restaurants across the country are feeling the pinch, but perhaps nowhere more so than in Manhattan.

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Connecticut’s coastal vistas are as beautiful as ever, as Groton Long Beach shows. But beauty no longer means a sure sale — especially for the more expensive properties.Sales of property along quiet coves and private beaches in Connecticut are suffering from the same market doldrums afflicting those stuck in the interior.

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Carmine Dell Aquila, a Port Jefferson trustee, says a yearlong building moratorium would help the village manage its growth. Others say that capital investments should be encouraged.Port Jefferson is the latest community on Long Island to consider a moratorium on construction.

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When Robbin Gourley and her husband, Jeffrey Stern, bought their brownstone, its chief charm was its low price. For Robbin Gourley, the quiet tree-lined streets of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, remind her of her childhood in North Carolina.

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The first-place design, by Felix Heidgen and Thomas Nagy of RMJM in Princeton, was a nine-building complex with connecting bridges and rooftop gardens. A design competition challenged architects to use prefabricated containers as housing “modules.”

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Thomas Lewin and Jessica O’Hara-Baker moved into their new apartment last fall.Inwood wasn’t a neighborhood that Jessica O’Hara-Baker and Thomas Lewin knew anything about, but they were drawn there by the relatively low rents.

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Jeff Koons, an American artist who seems to be perpetually reinventing himself, may soon be taking on a new artistic role: renovator of a historic Upper East Side town house.

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West End Collegiate Church at West 77th Street today, right; and left in 1893. The Landmarks Preservation Commission is considering protecting the last big example of the late 19th-century revival of New York’s Dutch past, the 1894 school at 82nd Street and West End Avenue.

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There is new concern about the transformation of the Manhattan House from rental building to condominium.

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