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| ADVERTISEMENT  Alert Name: NYT RE Alert November 8, 2009 Compiled: 1:17 AM USYears after the frontier town of Unalaska picked itself up off the barroom floor, residents fear a shelter would once again invite the wrong kinds of neighbors. STYLE / T MAGAZINEThe extended family is a wonderful thing, but so is privacy. It’s not easy to balance the two when designing a house, particularly if you don’t have the land or budget, or both, to build a compound. But with ingenuity and a little luck, even a modest house on a small site can accommodate three generations with breathing room to spare. REAL ESTATETo spur international investors, some real estate companies have started marketing a service that brokers have long provided informally. REAL ESTATEProgress is being made in converting Newark’s empty lots and abandoned buildings into new housing, despite a crushing recession. REAL ESTATEThe federal government is poised to enact rules to combat discrimination on loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration. REAL ESTATEFor those who crave a historic house — along with all the charms and challenges it can entail — there are a few other architectural gems to be found across the Island. REAL ESTATEAbout 40 percent of Croton-on-Hudson is set aside as parkland, and the area is known for its rivers. REAL ESTATESturgis Warner, a theater director, uses contraptions he built to make the most of his space in a fifth-floor walk-up in the East Village. REAL ESTATEJoseph A. Olshefski, who spent much of his adult life at 313 East 58th, is now acting as the broker for the owner, who is selling it. REAL ESTATEOne Madison Park, the soaring 600-foot glass condominium that towers over East 23rd Street, opened to its first residents in August, but since then only five buyers have closed, according to city records. REAL ESTATEProspect-Lefferts Gardens may be uncool and unhyped, but that's fine for Dan Schreiber and Caroline Jeanjot. |
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