Midwood
NY Times: Midwood is Where Prosperity Breeds Proximity
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009The New York Times’ Vivian Toy did an excellent write-up on Midwood in Community District 14 in the paper’s Real Estate section:
WHERE PROSPERITY BREEDS PROXIMITY
by Vivian ToyMANY blocks in Midwood, with its rows of orderly detached homes and private driveways, give the feeling of a carefully planned suburb — a serene surprise after turning off a thoroughfare like Coney Island Avenue or Ocean Parkway.
But closer inspection reveals that the landscape has, in fact, been altered: on virtually every block, at least one or two homes have been significantly expanded — built up, built out, even built down.
Read the rest here.