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Hardwood floors, beamed ceilings, exposed brick walls, working fireplaces — for many New Yorkers, the elements of a classic rowhouse are as toothsome as a dessert buffet at a wedding. Yet rowhouses have their downsides. If you’re a couple working from home and planning a family, the frequently narrow widths of these buildings somewhat diminish
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Q: I live in a co-op in New York City that doesn’t have a doorman. The front door to the building locks automatically every evening at 9 p.m., and there is an electronic keypad outside that requires a code to open the door. I observe the Sabbath, and cannot use this keypad from Friday sundown
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Chick-fil-A’s new location in New York City has everything you’d expect from the chicken shop: friendly servers, crispy waffle fries and a line of hungry customers. It’s missing just one thing: seats. The shop, which opened on the Upper East Side in March, is the chain’s first to exclusively handle pickup and delivery orders. It’s
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Brasschaat | $1.39 million (€1.295 million) A four-bedroom, two-bath house from 1938 with a thatched roof in the Antwerp suburb of Brasschaat Built in 1938 on about half an acre, this four-bedroom villa with a thatched roof is in Brasschaat, a municipality in northern Belgium about nine miles north of Antwerp and 10 miles south
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Manhattan | 425 Park Avenue South, No. 15A NoMad Co-op $930,000 A one-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 1,000-square-foot apartment with an open living/dining room, a walk-in closet, built-ins and 11-foot ceilings on the 15th floor of a 20-story prewar building with a part-time doorman, a live-in super, shared laundry, extra storage and a roof deck. Frances Katzen,
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With down payments ticking up in tandem with home prices and interest rates, how long does it take to save up enough to put down on a home? According to a recent study by Zillow, a home buyer making the national median income of $82,156 would have to save for 12 years, assuming a 10
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Be careful: The garden wants to have its own way, to blur the lines and refocus those pictures you planned so carefully and then planted. Anyone who has ever tried to create a garden — especially a naturalistic one — learns a few things very quickly. Most emphatically, that change is the only constant. But
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One man wanted to find a home for his aging parents to retire. One young woman’s mother wanted to raise her family there. Three families wanted their children to go to good schools. The five-story building in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, erected on the site of a former Lutheran church, seemed to be the right fit
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Tal Alexander, whose portfolio of luxury real estate transactions includes some of New York and Miami’s most eye-popping sales, is stepping down from the high-end brokerage he co-founded in the wake of mounting allegations of sexual assault. His exit from Official comes two weeks after Oren Alexander, his younger brother, also stepped down in the
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A home should be a place where you can welcome your extended family — at least that’s what Leah Martin and Vikram Prakash thought. But while they loved entertaining at the house they shared with their three children, the experience wasn’t quite what they had in mind. “What happens is that when everybody comes to
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