Category: Community Living

Real Estate Trends It's Too Darn Hot!
2013 August It's Too Darn Hot!

 A glance at a chart of average temperatures in New York City during the summer  months (not withstanding the recent heat wave we’ve had) reveals typically it gets into the 80s during the daytime in July and  August, and cools off at night…

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Neighborhoods Uptown in Inwood
2013 July Uptown in Inwood

 While it remains under the radar, Inwood is a hidden gem that continues to  attract an increasing number of musicians, actors, artists and young  professionals in search of affordable housing and a vibe of being away from New  York City w…

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Real Estate Trends Home is Where the Heart is
2013 July Home is Where the Heart is

 While some affianced New York City couples insist on holding their weddings in  churches, synagogues or the Central Park boathouse, others opt to keep the  nuptials much closer to home—in some cases right down the hall, in the courtyard, …

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Neighborhoods Long Island City
2013 June Long Island City

 When you think of Jersey mobster Tony Soprano, fashionista Carrie Bradshaw,  perpetual food-stained clothes wearer Liz Lemon, neurotic, scatterbrained  Hannah Horvath and socialite Serena van der Woodsen, Long Island City might not  sprin…

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Real Estate Trends Electric Revolution On the Horizon?
2013 June Electric Revolution On the Horizon?

 Whether condo associations will buy into the so-called “electric highway” has become the perennial $64,000 question.    And the answer? The electric vehicle or EV revolution is coming, albeit slowly.    ChargePoint, Inc., wh…

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Real Estate Trends Butt Out?
2013 June Butt Out?

 In the ongoing effort to limit the non-smoking public's exposure to secondhand  cigarette smoke, municipal governments across the country are coming up with  increasingly strict bans on smoking in public places—even on public streets and …

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Neighborhoods Rye, New York: a Slice of Heaven
2013 May Rye, New York: a Slice of Heaven

 This bucolic Westchester County community is home to the popular amusement park  Playland and its famous wooden roller coaster, the Dragon Coaster (remember  when Glenn Close and Ellen Latzen took a ride on this roller coaster in the  198…

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Real Estate Trends Changing Times
2013 May Changing Times

 Bob Dylan famously sang, “The times, they are a-changin’,” and they sure have with Pew Research finding that for the next 17 years, 10,000  Baby Boomers will turn 65 every day. This staggering statistic, which includes  the 71-year-old ic…

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Neighborhoods Brighton Beach Memoirs
2013 April Brighton Beach Memoirs

 You’ll find knishes, borscht, blinis, loads of shops, bakeries, fruits and  vegetables, black market caviar and of course, vodka, along Brighton Beach  Avenue, the neighborhood’s main artery that caters to a thriving Russian community. Da…

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Real Estate Trends A Look Back to the Future
2013 April A Look Back to the Future

 Thirty years ago, Cats won the Tony Award for best musical, setting it off to  secure its place as the second longest running Broadway musical in history. New  York City streets were filled with women in torn sweatshirts and leg warmers  …

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