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☆ 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

☆ 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

☆ 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.

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