After Raising a Family in the West Village, She Began Again in Her Own Place - The New York Times
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After her husband died, a retired librarian decided to leave their townhouse and strike out on her own in a one-bedroom apartment nearby. Here’s what she found for around $800,000.
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Giving Away My Twin
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Nearby Horse Shows - The New York Times
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NYC restaurant reviews from Time Out New York's food critic
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Tom Wolfe: The “Me” Decade and the Third Great Awakening
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The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies
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Why this corner of West Village is real Billionaires' Row
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How One Mother's Love for Her Gay Son Started a Revolution
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The Vail-ification of the West - In These Times
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I Thought My Mother Was an Only Child. I Was Wrong. - The Atlantic
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40 F‐111'S CLEARED AFTER CORRECTION - The New York Times
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Greenwich Village - Wikipedia
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Finding Stability in 'the Home That I Cried For' - The New York Times