Out and About: If it smells like a rose, keep sniffing

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If smoking’s your thing, did I see a co-op for you!

It was the last of three apartments that I visited yesterday, and I felt as though I was striking a wall when I entered the place, which is on Central Park West in the high ’60s.

It seems an active 95-year-old man–he had gone shopping–has lived in the unit for decades and decades.  Every day of every one of those years of his residence,

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THE APARTMENT OF A LATE CLENCHED-JAW CONSERVATIVE ENDURES ANOTHER PRICE REDUCTION

HE AIMS HIGH AND . . . SCORES!

AND SO DOES HE!

WHEN HER APARTMENT ATTRACTS NO SUITORS, A ROMANCE NOVELIST CUTS THE PRICE

SHE’S SLEEPING IN SOHO

AFTER THREE YEARS, HE HAD HAS HOUSE MARKED TO MARKET

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YOU CAN HAVE YOUR APARTMENT AND EAT WELL TOO

It’s not quite a trend, but community-supported agriculture plans, or C.S.A.s, farmers a fee to become members and in turn have vegetables, fruits and meats delivered to them at the building by a farm truck weekly.

For example, Holton Farms, an eighth-generation farm in Westminster, Vt., approached the Solaire in Battery Park City about its C.S.A. plan.  Immediately, Solaire’s management agreed to help promote the farm through the building’s e-mail system and smoothed the way for the farm to park its truck and makeshift farm stand in front of the building on River Terrace every weekend.

“It made sense for us,” said Michael Gubbins, director of residential management for the developer, the Albanese Organization, “and it’s become a very popular community service.”