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New York real estate: Howard Beach

For better and for worse, Howard Beach, Queens, has long been a neighborhood on the periphery and an area defined by sharp contrasts. It's where tradition is confronted by modernism, and old and new stand side by side on the borough's border with Brooklyn.

In some cases, the clash between classic and contemporary is very explicit. The peninsula is bisected by the Shell Bank Basin, which runs...

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