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… Landmarks  it is the oldest house in Manhattan a handsome building twoandahalf stories high typically Georgian in … as far as the Long Island Sound Plus the property included orchards meadows and fertile agricultural land everything … there Duke Ellington who lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue a building that sits just outside the official Historic …

… to learn about the coops and condos with fascinating past lives … The Octagon … Before it was Roosevelt Island the … The area was where the city sent its undesirables and was home to a prison an asylum and a smallpox hospital The … an addition Today the LEED certified  apartment complex is home to 500 rentals with floortoceiling views of the …

… This row of singlefamily houses with front yards and porches seems to belong more in … how it became a magnet first for upper and middleclass whites and then AfricanAmericans its precipitous decline in … the porches as well as to repair toppling chimneys damaged roofs and castiron fences and repoint and clean the facades …

… If youve every walked by the corner of Broadway and 11th Street you may have noticed a large rather … the emporiums copywriter invites the attention of outoftown buyers as well as local ones to its large attractive stock … live in the McCreery building Apartments are available to buy and rent … Does all this history make you want to move …

… on 42 nd Street but nothing about the Tudor Revivalstyle enclave that opened its doors in 1927 in its spot from East … no through streets and that traffic is diverted underground for five blocks along the United Nations campus the … other fauna  Streetlevel windows on common or commercial space feature elaborate stained glass windows that rival …