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☆ They Wanted a House in the City for $1 Million. Would They Find It in Brooklyn or Queens?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“It reminded me of home,” said Dr. McCullough, who is from Baltimore. Dr. McCullough, now 38, was also in a new relationship with Lorne Behrman, whom she had met online. Mr. Behrman, 48, a musician and copywriter from California, had been divorced for several years. Email: thehunt@nytimes.com]When Dr. McCullough was growing up, money was tight and her family had to move a lot. So Mr. Behrman called James M. Armstrong, a friend and salesman with the Corcoran Group.

Persons: Covid, Danielle McCullough, ”, McCullough, Dr . McCullough, Lorne Behrman, Behrman, “, Danielle, James M, Armstrong, ” Mr Organizations: East, aha, Corcoran Group Locations: East Harlem, Manhattan, Baltimore, anesthesiology, California, Midwood , Brooklyn, Westchester, McCullough’s

☆ A New York Firefighter Left the City for the Long Island Suburbs. Which House Did He Choose?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“It was a run-of-the-mill impoverished neighborhood, and I hated living in tight quarters,” said Mr. Shepherd, 36. “I always knew I wanted to own a home. Mr. Shepherd is currently stationed in Crown Heights. But Mr. Shepherd had a plan. I had a vision, and I knew that paying cheap rent would get me there.”His vision included a suburban house and yard, surrounded by nature.

Persons: Gregory Shepherd, ”, Shepherd, “, Danielle Jernigan, Keller Williams, ” Ms, Jernigan Organizations: Bowling Green State University, New York, Keller Williams NYC Locations: Flatbush, Crown, Brooklyn, Ohio, New York, New, New York City, Crown Heights, Jamaica, Queens, Westchester, Nassau County, Long, Nassau, Suffolk, ”, Hudson

☆ Lower Manhattan for Less Than $500,000? A Young Couple Knew They’d Need to Compromise.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Email: thehunt@nytimes.com]The couple contacted Matt DeSilva, an associate broker with Corcoran, whom Ms. Colley had met a few years before when she had a side hustle drawing floor plans for real estate agents. Mr. Mazumder, who is from Cleveland and has a Ph.D. in government from Harvard, is a writer and a cook. The couple, both 30, focused on co-ops priced up to $500,000, to translate into a monthly outlay of less than $3,000. “A lot of the time, the lower somebody’s budget, the higher their expectations.”Although Ms. Colley was happy to stay in her old stomping ground, Lower Manhattan won out. “I’ve been pretty used to not having those things,” Mr. Mazumder said.

Persons: Emma Colley, Shom Mazumder, Colley, ”, “, Matt DeSilva, Corcoran, Mazumder, Mr, DeSilva, I’ve Organizations: Pratt Institute, HGTV, Harvard University, Mr, Harvard, Lower Manhattan Locations: Boston, New York City, Clinton Hill, Bedford, Stuyvesant , Brooklyn, Rochester , N.Y, Cleveland, Lower

☆ Mulling Manhattan One-Bedrooms: Prewar Charm or Modern Amenities?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But “we always got super discouraged at how expensive everything was and how little you get for your money,” Ms. Pfeiffer, 50, said. Their budget hovered around $800,000, but “we know ourselves,” Ms. Pfeiffer said. “Our future selves wanted to plan for this possibility,” Ms. Pfeiffer said. An early visit to a high-floor co-op apartment in a charming prewar walk-up reminded them that “going up and down was asking a lot of our bodies, even without carrying groceries, cats, bags, whatever,” Mr. Vogel said. The housing stock was more suitable below 60th Street, so they decided that avoiding congestion pricing wasn’t that important after all.

Persons: Maria Pfeiffer, Jason Vogel, Ms, Pfeiffer, “, Vogel, Christopher Baker, Pfeiffer’s, ” Ms, ”, Mr, Baker Organizations: Keller Williams NYC Locations: Columbia County, Albany, Hudson

☆ Seeking an Upper West Side Home That the Children Want to Visit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Her two oldest children were living in New York, while her two youngest were still in college. As the pandemic raged, Ms. Snyder and her daughter shared a two-bedroom in a high-rise on Riverside Boulevard. But “the process of looking teaches you what you want,” Ms. Snyder said. “Or instead of a 10-by-12 living room, it was a 14-by-12 living-and-dining room,” with little room for a table. “It is a draw for my kids,” Ms. Snyder said.

Persons: Barbara Snyder, Snyder, Joe Pigott, “ Joe, ” Ms, “, . Pigott, Ms, Mr, Pigott, ”, Jenny Bryant, Keller, Bryant Organizations: Upper, Riverside, Youth Sports Foundation, Keller Williams NYC Locations: Princeton, N.J, New York, Stamford, Conn, New York City

☆ André Leon Talley’s ‘Sanctuary’ in White Plains, N.Y., Is for Sale
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Talley was the first Black creative director of Vogue Magazine. Mr. Talley didn’t cook, Ms. Thomas said. “I said, ‘You should put stanchions up’” so nobody could sit on it, Ms. Thomas said. Mr. Talley used one of the four bedrooms in the house as a linen closet. “Nobody slept there but me,” Ms. Thomas said.

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☆ They Had $350,000 and a Dream to Live Together. Could They Make It in Manhattan?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

For 30 years, Ms. Denlinger rented a sunny fifth-floor walk-up in Manhattan Valley. Ms. Ladin, 62 — the first openly transgender professor at Yeshiva University, where she taught English — suffers from myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. “I had not done any real estate hunting for 30 years,” Ms. Denlinger said. To find her Manhattan Valley apartment, “I got a Village Voice, looked in the ads, called up the landlord and made an appointment. “We needed two rooms that could be really separate, where one was not a bathroom or a kitchen,” Ms. Ladin said.

☆ They Went to the Top of Manhattan to Find Two Bedrooms and a View. Which Option Did They Choose?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Mr. Brent was renting the ground floor of an attached brick house across from Inwood Hill Park, at the top of Manhattan. [Also in Real Estate: E-Bikes Are Exploding Every Week in New York City, Causing Fires and Killing People. “I really need access to blue and green stuff — rivers and trees,” Mr. Brent said. Still, parts of the neighborhood were noisy, with revving motorcycles and loud music, which concerned Mr. Brent. “New York City creates unique challenges to recording environments.”Among their options:

☆ They Wanted a Two-Bedroom in Queens for $500,000 — Dishwasher Optional. Which Option Did They Buy?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Shortly after Covid-19 hit, Michelle de Vera and Serhan Ayhan settled into a one-bedroom in Woodside, Queens. Ms. de Vera, who then worked in the airline industry, had an easy trip via public transportation to the Queens airports. She would spend hours on video calls for work while Mr. Ayhan, 36, clanked in the kitchen and tried to stay out of camera range. Email: thehunt@nytimes.com]Their criteria included a kitchen — with a dishwasher — that was suitable for making dough,, and space for hosting pizza nights. In every apartment they visited, Mr. Ayhan checked to see whether the oven was big enough to accommodate his pizza peel.

☆ They Didn’t Need Fancy Amenities or a Garden, but Closets Would Be Nice. Which Brooklyn Condo Did They Choose?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Now our irises are all over the neighborhood,” said Mr. Mercanti, a theater professor and director at Pace University. “Sometimes I watch horror movies, and that drives Joe crazy if he is in the bedroom listening to folk rock,” Mr. Mercanti said. “A bedroom door was a necessity, but everything else was kind of negotiable,” Mr. Mercanti said. They weren’t interested in fancy amenities and were willing to forgo garden space — Mr. Ferrari had plenty of plants to tend at his workplace. They considered some ground-floor duplexes, which did often have garden space, but in one case they saw water on the floor of a basement utility room, which was enough to scare them off.

☆ Finding the Harlem Apartment She Always Wanted: Which One Was It?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“There was an influx of young, Black corporate people who were making Harlem home, and I wanted to be a part of that renaissance,” said Ms. Rothwell, 40. She settled in a Central Harlem rental with roommates — “perfect for my 20s,” she said — and later rented a studio in an East Harlem walk-up, living below her means and keeping her sights on a purchase. Ms. Rothwell has worked in product development for a popular retail chain for more than a decade, socking away savings while moving up the corporate ranks. “He encouraged me to be open-minded,” Ms. Rothwell said. It was all about the pros and cons.”Among her options, in Central Harlem:

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