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Entries from July 2009

Big Deal: For the Luxury Do-It-Yourselfer

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Dolly Lenz, the top-selling broker at Prudential Douglas Elliman, needs to sign up at least 25 buyers within six weeks at the Apthorp.

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Posting: A Neighborhood’s Three-Way Switch

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

A rendering of Cassa shows windows irregularly set, to facilitate combining various apartments.Cassa, a new skyscraper in Midtown, is a residential condominium-hotel combination in a solidly commercial district.

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Living In | Edgewater Park and Silver Beach Gardens, the Bronx: Co-ops Galore, but Not a High Rise in Sight

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Silver Beach Gardens, left, and Edgewater Park are co-op communities on the southeastern edge of the Bronx. Residents own their homes but lease the land from owners’ collectives and pay maintenance fees.Real estate agents say that many clients have no idea where Edgewater Park is. And that seems to suit its residents just fine.

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The Hunt: A Home Gets Drools of Approval

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

When Traci Schiffer moved, she wanted a bigger place in the East Village with outdoor space for the dogs.

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Streetscapes | Readers’ Questions: A Charmer That Was Ahead of Its Time

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

The story behind the Monterey at 114th Street and Morningside Avenue.

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In the Region | New Jersey: A Tarnished ‘Gold Coast’

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Sales of $1 million-plus condos have stalled in Hudson County, though developers of Gull’s Cove in Jersey City are close to selling three penthouses in that price range.Amid the flurry of signs that much of the state home sales market began a recovery in June, there was pretty clear evidence that Hudson County was undergoing no such thing.

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Big Deal: Rent-Control Rights Stripped Away

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

A hairstylist and sometime songwriter from Brooklyn recently discovered that there is no statute of limitations when it comes to challenging the rights of rent-controlled tenants.

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Big Deal: A Choreographed Move

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Paul Taylor, the choreographer and modern dance icon, has now decided to sell the town house he has lived in on Vandam Street for nearly 40 years, and move closer to his new rehearsal studio across town.

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Away: A Cottage of Straw, Handmade in Texas

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Gary Zuker’s 900-square-foot getaway outside Austin, Tex., is a storybook dwelling that could be Gepetto’s workshop.

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High & Low | Yamhill County, Ore.: Homes Amid the Vines

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

$1.45 million

Four-bedroom house

Northeast Winters Road, Dayton, Ore.Southwest of Portland, real estate cultivated in tandem with vineyards and wineries are attracting second-home buyers and wine lovers.

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