Streetscapes | East 61st Street
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Christopher Gray recalls the day he sneaked into Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge’s house at Fifth Avenue and 61st Street just before it was demolished.
Living In | New Cassel, L.I.
By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER
The residential blocks of this central Nassau County hamlet are lined with World War II-era Capes, high ranches and split levels.
Mortgages
By LYNNLEY BROWNING
Borrowers unable to qualify for conventional mortgages now pay a higher insurance premium on loans backed by the agency.
By MIKE POWELL
A house in New Mexico, a condo in Chicago and farmhouse in Vermont are for sale.
Square Feet
By KRISTINA SHEVORY
Low interest rates, a lack of new construction and falling vacancy rates have swelled the ranks of buyers who want to invest in apartment buildings.
Square Feet
By JOTHAM SEDERSTROM
Publishers, facing declines in advertising and circulation, have been attracted to Lower Manhattan rents that average $17 a square foot less than Midtown.
About New York
By COREY KILGANNON
A Manhattan row house once home to Charlie Parker, the jazz great known as “Bird,” the current occupant cares for pigeons and parrots.
Habitats | Upper West Side
By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM
Lee Rolontz and Ernie Fritz live with their daughters in a Classic 6, renovated so as to become an unClassic 7.
The Hunt
By JOYCE COHEN
For John Ransom Phillips, a painter who had outgrown his place in TriBeCa, the search for a larger home and studio took close to 10 years.
By MICHAEL WILSON
A Lower Manhattan building whose architectural charms were hidden for decades is being rediscovered.
Square Feet | The 30-Minute Interview
By VIVIAN MARINO
Mr. Steiner is the president of the Steiner Equities Group in Roseland, N.J., which has developed retail and office space nationwide.
By JAY ROMANO
Equal treatment for all shareholders; the rules for capital gains; distributing co-op bylaws; when a church becomes a landlord.
In the Region | Long Island
By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER
Even in a healthy economy, continuing-care facilities, which offer resortlike amenities, can take three to five years to build.
In the Region | Connecticut
By LISA PREVOST
By introducing more people to the New London schools, the district’s new superintendent hopes to broaden their perspective on school quality, and ease fears about safety.
In the Region | New Jersey
By ANTOINETTE MARTIN
New Yorkers are finding real estate bargains in this city across the bridge.