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February 13, 2005
Long Island roads
Long Island roads roadgeek page has pictures and shields.
See also NY roads.
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February 08, 2005
Queenswest LIC (etc) community page
queenswest.com covers Hunters Point, Greene Point, and Long Island City.
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February 06, 2005
Make it here, make it anywhere: Long Island Index
Diana Weir, the vice president of the Long Island Housing Partnership,
said: "People tend to stay in these homes. Most of them are thrilled
to own their own home."
Though developments like those created by the Long Island Housing
Partnership with the cooperation of towns, banks and county, state and
federal agencies have given more than 3,000 families the chance to own
homes, there are still many more people who will leave Long Island for
that chance.
With the median price of a house reported in July by the Long Island
Regional Planning Board to be $394,900, twice the national average,
"people making 120 percent of the median income can't come close to
buying a home on Long Island," said Jim Morgo, Suffolk County's
commissioner of economic development.
As a result, according to the 2005 Long Island Index, a report
on Long Island sponsored by the Rauch Foundation, 20 percent of Long
Islanders aged 18 to 34 left the Island from 1990 to 2000, five times
the national average.
NYT]
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February 05, 2005
FAMILY BIKE TRAIL - SYOSSET, NEW YORK
A Long Island interpretive trail will give beginning mountain bikers the
411 on rider etiquette. Slated to open in summer 2005, the appropriately
named "Family Trail" in Stillwell Woods Park loosely imitates the
Russler's Loop interpretive trail in Fruita, Colorado. IMBA affiliate
club Concerned Long Island Mountain Bicyclists (CLIMB) is working with
Nassau County to build the trail and install signage.
Thanks IMBA.
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February 04, 2005
Flushing directions
Q: Coming from the north (Westchester/CT/eastern Bronx), how best
to get to the Flushing mainstreet area (38th Ave & 138th Street) ?
A1: The exit from I-678 S (Whitestone) to 25a Northern Blvd
goes only west, towards Astoria. Take that and make a u-turn.
A2. Take i-678 exit 14 (Linden Pl). Stay on the service road to
the end (the third traffic light, I think). Make a left onto
College Point Blvd. Go about 7 blocks (you'll go under the
Northern Blvd overpass) and make a left onto 37 Ave. Go a few
blocks and make a right onto 138 St.
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February 03, 2005
Brooklyn heights townhouses
THE Manhattanization of Brooklyn took a great leap past the point of
no return recently when a brownstone on the promenade in Brooklyn
Heights went into contract for $8.5 million. Real estate brokers said
it was by far the highest price ever paid for a town house in the
borough.
The deal for the home at 212 Columbia Heights has quickened the pulses
of owners in the neighborhood, and already another brownstone, at 8
Montague Terrace, has gone on the market for $12 million (although it
is divided into several apartments); a brick town house at 82 Remsen
Street is being offered for $10 million.
The previous top sale for a Brooklyn Heights town house was $4.25
million, for a home on Henry Street that sold last year, according to
Frank Percesepe, the managing director of the Corcoran Group office in
the neighborhood.
BIG DEAL: $8.5 Million Brownstone Deal Raises the Bar in Brooklyn
The New York Times
2005 February 06, By WILLIAM NEUMAN
THE Manhattanization of Brooklyn took a great leap past the point of
no return recently when a brownstone on the promenade in Brooklyn
Heights went into contract for $8.5 million. Real estate brokers said
it was by far the highest price ever paid for a town house in the
borough.
The deal for the home at 212 Columbia Heights has quickened the pulses
of owners in the neighborhood, and already another brownstone, at 8
Montague Terrace, has gone on the market for $12 million (although it
is divided into several apartments); a brick town house at 82 Remsen
Street is being offered for $10 million.
The previous top sale for a Brooklyn Heights town house was $4.25
million, for a home on Henry Street that sold last year, according to
Frank Percesepe, the managing director of the Corcoran Group office in
the neighborhood.
Christopher Thomas, an executive vice president at Brown Harris
Stevens and the company's Brooklyn sales director, said the Columbia
Heights deal has prompted several other owners to consider selling.
"This is a number consistent with Manhattan Upper East or Upper West
Side," Mr. Thomas said. "But if you buy a house in those locations,
you're not going to have views of the Statue of Liberty and the sun
setting behind it. It's established a high water mark that has
transcended values that are typically associated with a particular
neighborhood."
The brownstone at 212 Columbia Heights is being bought by Nina Collins
and Marek Fludzinski, who agreed in December to pay the $8.5 million
asking price. Ms. Collins is co-owner of the Collins McCormick
Literary Agency, and Mr. Fludzinski is a founder of Thales Fund
Management, a hedge fund.
"It's a spectacular house," said their broker, Merele Williams-Adkins
of the Corcoran Group. "Incredible high ceilings, extraordinary
detail. The views are unbelievable."
The 25-foot -wide, five-story brownstone, which is between Pierrepont
and Clark Streets, needs a new kitchen and other renovations. It is
owned by Calvert Douglas Crary and Kinga P. Crary, who paid $55,000
when they bought it in 1972, according to a deed filed with the city.
A broker for the Crarys, Yolanda Johnson Vogelzang at the Corcoran
Group, did not return calls.
The "A.I.A. Guide to New York City" says the town house is one of four
in a row on Columbia Heights that it calls "the best remaining
examples of group mansions in brownstone."
The even-numbered houses on Columbia Heights back up against the
Brooklyn Heights promenade, which offers some of the borough's best
views of the Manhattan skyline. Ms. Collins and Mr. Fludzinski are
moving to Brooklyn from Manhattan, where they are selling their
current town house for $8 million.
The seven-floor Manhattan home, built by the architect John L.
Petrarca, uses geothermal heat and has seven bedrooms. It is at 152
Reade Street, in TriBeCa, and is listed with Ms. Williams-Adkins.
Among the homes at the top of the Heights market, one of the more
interesting is 82 Remsen, which is owned by the sculptor Neil Estern.
It is 37½ feet wide and sits on a 150-foot lot with a carriage house
at the back end, on Grace Court Alley. Its real estate broker, Kevin
J. Carberry, said the four-story main house, which was built in 1837,
contains about 10,000 square feet, divided between two apartments.
Among other works, Mr. Estern is known for his bronze sculpture of the
seated President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Roosevelt Memorial in
Washington.
[NYT]
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February 01, 2005
Port Jefferson ferry to Bridgeport, CT
Port Jefferson (NY) - Bridgeport (CT) ferry.
Sailing time 1 hour, 15 minutes
(631) 473-0286 or
(203) 335-2040
Port Jefferson, New York
102 West Broadway Port Jefferson, NY 11777
Please Note: If Eastbound on I-495 (Long Island Expressway) you may
choose to exit expressway at exit #63 (County Road 83). Take County
Road 83 North to Route 112. Make left on Route 112 to Port Jefferson
Village. Then follow signs in Port Jefferson Village to East Main
Street and Ferry Dock as above.
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