Take Five

… only the latest celebrity to settle in Victorian Flatbush Silent film stars Douglas Fairbanks Mary Pickford and Fatty … green spaces Victorian Flatbush has attracted everyone from silent movie stars to current Hollywood Alisters …

… piecemeal to a nearby city lot and the whereabouts of the fragments of the great naturalists last home are unknown  …

… neighbor just across a bridgeOcean Groveholds just as much allure for many beachcombers Situated just 60 miles from New … for its collection of homes from the Victorian era reportedly one of the highest concentration in the nationno …

… area … 1 George Washington really did sleep here and apparently the political arguments raged on … The Jumel mansion … of American history But Oppenheimer has a very different story to tellone of a woman who rose above the abject … a program to restore the facades of the buildings with Federal Community Development Funds In 1981 work was …

… Island Expressway you may have wondered about that huge cluster of red brick buildings you see when driving past … built in the 1960s the land was purchased from the Astor estate for $7 million it was geared toward middleclass … Jamaica Queens Lefrak City was built without direct city or state aid and without tax abatements reported the Times in …

… and further north the fashionable folks began to buy homes in the area according to the Landmarks Preservation … divided up into boarding houses and by the 1970s the AIA Guide to New York City in describing the state of the Row … they made 125th Street the northernmost boundary for their search They looked at 132 properties before they broadened …

… meatpacking facilities and a gas works  The area was easy pickings made up as it was of tenements and rooming houses … cabbies and lonely males travelling through Grand Central Rents subsequently fell the jewel of midtown got shabby … rents for $2400 to $2600 per month Steve Corcoran puts the rental price of a studio apartment slightly higher at $1800 …