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Todt Hill (/ ˈ t oʊ t / TOHT) [1] is a 401-foot-tall (122 m) hill formed of serpentine rock on Staten Island, New York.It is the highest natural point in the five boroughs of New York City and the highest elevation on the entire Atlantic coastal plain from Florida to Cape Cod. [2]
Nearly every structure was built before World War II – which in New York real estate parlance is referred to as pre-war – many of them in the Art Deco style. Facades in the Tudor are also well represented, while others are in the Art Nouveau, Neo-Classical, and Collegiate Gothic styles. Many of the apartment houses are co-ops and a few are ...
New York has played a prominent role in the development of the skyscraper. Since 1890, ten of those built in the city have held the title of world's tallest. [29] [G] New York City went through two very early high-rise construction booms, the first of which spanned the 1890s through the 1910s, and the second from the mid-1920s to the early ...
Consider the property in Armonk, N.Y., an hour north of New York City, that he bought for $375,000 in 1993. It’s unclear whether he still owns it, but if so its value may have multiplied 10 ...
Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War.
So it may come as some surprise that the New York metropolitan area rents are not the highest in. Anyone who's ever gone hunting for an affordable apartment in New York City knows it's about as ...
Bennett Park, also known as James Gordon Bennett Park, is a 1.8-acre (0.73 ha) public park in New York City, named for James Gordon Bennett, Sr., [1] the newspaper publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835.
As real estate investors contend with high-interest debt and soaring prices, some are turning their attention to often-overlooked metro areas in search of higher returns. Nick Gerli, CEO of ...