She was sent to work at Svetopribor after she finished school, and now lives in one of Zapad-4's small condominium blocks.
The housing stock is a mix of sprawling apartment buildings like those that line Park and Fifth Avenues; brownstones on the side streets; a few modern condominium blocks; and grand old mansions, many in use by institutions like the Cooper-Hewitt Museum or the Dalton School.
While most of the tourist images of Rio de Janeiro focus on the beauty of the natural landscape, antique mosaic pavements, teeming favelas and European colonial architecture, Barra has wide straight roads, giant shopping malls and gated condominium blocks that echo Miami or Los Angeles rather than Lisbon or Porto.
In January, one loft-style condominium three blocks away from No. 96 sold for $1.1 million.
But the places where the social vibe develops organically, like Ms. Jones's building, Sterling Place, a new 45-unit condominium several blocks from the Brooklyn Museum, are more intriguing.
She paid $323,000 for a two-bedroom condominium four blocks from the SeaStreak Ferry, which provides service to and from Manhattan.
He wakes at 6 in his rented condominium just blocks from the White House and typically returns around 11. Unlike other presidential alter egos, Mr. Axelrod is not viewed as a surrogate "brain" (like Karl Rove), a suspicious outsider (like Dick Morris in the Clinton White House) or a co-president (James Baker in the first Bush White House).
Available weekly rentals in Rehoboth Beach range from a seven-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath house a block from the ocean for $4,500 to a five-bedroom, two-bath cottage in a woodland area for $2,400 a week, to a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath condominium six blocks from the beach for $850 a week.
As currently planned, the proposed 70-foot-high, five-story condominium would block the view of the Statue of Liberty from the 1920 Altar to Liberty monument atop Battle Hill in Green-Wood Cemetery.
In addition, Mr. Puretz plans an upscale restaurant and 18 residential units in a former Fishs Eddy dishware shop, as well as a condominium office block and a supermarket in a former lumberyard.
Mario Procida, president of Procida Realty and Construction Corporation, has put money into the area -- enough to renovate 265 condominiums three blocks from the courthouse in 1994 -- and is working on another housing development, Plaza de los Angeles, 35 three-family homes with Peter Stand and Magnus Magnusson, and Nos Quedamos.
