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☆ One Family’s Road to Building a House Despite the Obstacles
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Heather Senison | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Lebehn, originally from Pohnpei, an island in Micronesia, got a job as a chef at the local casino; Ms. Martin found work in a doctor’s office. They had moved from Myrtle Beach, S.C., where they met at a dance at the House of Blues in 2001. Ms. Martin wanted a village to help raise their expanding family. First they rented apartments on the reservation, but those quarters were getting uncomfortably tight as their four children grew older. “Once you get to that age you need your own space, considering two of the children were 6 feet tall,” said Ms. Martin, 45.

Persons: Randa Martin, Richard Lebehn, Saint, Martin, Lebehn, ” Organizations: Saint Regis, of Blues Locations: Saint Regis Mohawk, Pohnpei, Micronesia, Myrtle Beach, S.C

☆ Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Queens
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Heather Senison | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Manhattan | 613 East Sixth Street, No. Lucy Wu, BOND New York, 917-678-1348; bondnewyork.comCostsMaintenance: $1,579 a monthProsThis bright apartment has lots of windows and a skylight. ConsThe spiral staircase may not feel safe to all, and there’s no bathroom on the first level. Neither bedroom can fit a king-size bed. The buyer must pay a 1 percent flip tax.

Persons: Lucy Wu Organizations: Manhattan, Sixth Locations: New York

☆ Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Brooklyn
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Heather Senison | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Manhattan | 210 Riverside Drive 7D/6DRiverside Drive Duplex$1.5 millionA 1,400-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath duplex co-op with original moldings and doors, ample closets, an open living/dining/kitchen area and full bathroom on the upper level, and an en suite primary bedroom, library/home office and second bedroom with lofted storage on the lower level, on the sixth and seventh floors of a 12-story doorman building from 1909 designed by Schwartz & Gross, with a live-in superintendent, bike room, shared laundry and storage cases. Colin Montgomery and Stan Ponte, Sotheby’s International Realty, 646-319-3114; sothebysrealty.comCostsMaintenance: $2,791 a monthProsThis nicely kept and well-maintained duplex feels like a townhouse. The kitchen and upstairs bathroom are fully renovated. ConsThe building lacks amenities, like a gym or roof deck. The bathroom on the lower level is in the primary suite.

Persons: Colin Montgomery, Stan Ponte Organizations: Manhattan, Schwartz & Gross, Sotheby’s

☆ They Knew Little About Oysters. Now They Have a Farm With 2 Million.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Heather Senison | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

They’re installing an oyster automat outside the warehouse to sell boxes of Little Rams and shucking gear, and plan to bottle their homemade oyster sauce. It’s not every day that a couple shows up from Brooklyn and elbows their way in with folks who grew up clamming. They joined the Long Island Oyster Growers Association, where Ms. Bassett helps with public relations and marketing. Phil Mastrangelo, 57, part owner of the Oysterponds Shellfish Company in Orient, one of the biggest farms on Long Island with 10 million oysters, said the wife-and-wife team’s marketing has benefited others. 1 oyster in the world and it’s good for them to be promoting the region again,” he said.

☆ Workers Continue to Get Priced Out of the Hamptons
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Heather Senison | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For decades, residents and seasonal visitors to the Hamptons and other towns on the East End of Long Island have braced for spending summer mornings and evenings in the “trade parade,” the congested procession of contractors, hospital staff and other workers who commute to the East End to work every day. Priced out of the area, many workers have long lived up-island in less expensive locales like Manorville and Mastic-Shirley, forced to commute for hours each day. Fewer and fewer workers are willing to endure wall-to-wall traffic for low-wage jobs, punctuating the longtime dilemma that the workers who keep the North and South Forks running cannot afford to live there. “I don’t throw the word crisis around very easily, but it’s at that point,” said Fred Thiele Jr., a state assemblyman whose district includes Southampton. The staffer moved in with her boyfriend, he said, “but for a lot of people in that situation, they didn’t have options."

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