Real Estate

The eight-bedroom, 8½-bath modern-style home at 475 David Whites Lane is 9,300 square feet on 1.8 acres bordering 50 acres of a farm reserve. 

In the Riverhaven development, a 1,520 square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath mobile home is on the market for $115,000.  

Originally named Jerusalem, the community's past lives in its streets, cemeteries and church names, and the past is something its people take seriously.

The median price for homes, excluding the East End, rose to $500,000 in the July-through-September period, up 6.6% from a year earlier, according to a report.

The home stands out because "it's a Colonial in a land of Capes," the agent says, adding that in New Hyde Park, almost every house is a Cape.

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Neighborly gestures and enduring friendships are all part of life on Claudine Court, a shady lane lined with Dutch Colonials in the hamlet of East Northport.

Despite its proximity to water, it is not in the flood zone as are many other houses in the community.

Across the street from the Planting Fields Arboretum on Chicken Valley Road, the four-bedroom, 3½-bathroom ranch and an adjacent private horse barn sit on five acres.

"The preserve was specifically created to protect the environmental attributes around the lake which is considered a watershed recharge basin," Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell says.

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