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This is what happens if you stay put, and keep digging holes: An effort that begins innocently enough — planting a garden at home — may grow on you. And it could morph into an arboretum. Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Gardens, a 21-acre expanse in Stone Ridge, N.Y., with about 11 acres under cultivation, got
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Manhattan | 340 East 93rd Street, No. 6C Yorkville Co-op $589,000 A one-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 700-square-foot apartment with a pass-through kitchen, a large bedroom, ample shelving, and PTAC heating and air-conditioning, on the sixth floor of a 30-story doorman building with a live-in super, a residents’ lounge, a hot tub and sauna, a gym, a
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Catskill, N.Y. | $395,000 An 1860 brick rowhouse with two bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, on a 0.05-acre lot This house is a block from Main Street, putting it within easy walking distance of the village’s restaurants, bakeries and art studios. It is a 10-minute walk from the Avalon Lounge, a popular music
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Summer officially starts on Thursday, and this season is predicted to be hotter than normal — a heat wave across the country this week is expected to affect millions of Americans. In New York, the temperature is forecast to reach 96 degrees by Friday. On Monday, Chicago hit a record-breaking 97 degrees. More than just
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This story has been updated to include information about another lawsuit filed on Tuesday. For more than a decade, Oren Alexander was one of the biggest names in ultraluxury real estate in Miami and New York City. He helped to broker the record-setting 2019 purchase of a penthouse at 220 Central Park South, a deal
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What to do when you have too much stuff and not enough storage space? Celebrate it. Storing some of that overflow out in the open can be a good solution when you’ve got a small space with few closets. Well-planned open storage — with wall shelves, pegs, hooks and other accessories — does two important
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After years of swings and misses, the Yankees legend Derek Jeter has finally found a buyer for his compound in Orange County, N.Y. — after it was re-listed for less than half of its original asking price. The four-acre lakefront home in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., known as Tiedemann Castle, went into contract on May 25,
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When Helen Zhou began looking for an apartment to buy in London, she already liked the thought of living small. “I’m into the idea of minimal living, and a strict follower of Marie Kondo,” said Ms. Zhou, 33, a software engineer. She was also concerned about the environment and knew that living in a small
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Suffolk | 76 Edgewood Avenue, Smithtown, N.Y. Farmhouse-Style Home $849,000 A four-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath house built in 1900, with a circular driveway, an entry vestibule, a gas fireplace in the living room, a formal dining room, a sunroom, an updated kitchen, laundry on the main level, an unfinished basement and a two-stall barn and tack room,
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Manhattan | 62 East First Street, No. 2S Lower East Side Condo $1.65 million A one-bedroom, one-bath 1,027-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, a breakfast bar, a primary suite with a walk-in closet, a den/home office, a washer/dryer, PTAC heating and air-conditioning, and a private terrace, on the second floor of a six-story building
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