An Early Frame House $3,600,000 BROOKLYN17474 State Street (near Clinton Street) One of the earliest structures in what turned into a predominantly brownstone neighborhood, this cedar-sided 26-foot-wide house covering 4,400 square feet has a deck, terrace and south garden.
The bar menu is good value (seafood platter £9.95, half a dozen oysters £9.50, grilled mackerel £9.50) but for a summer treat eat on the restaurant's sun deck terrace (bouillabaisse with saffron new potatoes and sauce rouille £13.95, fillet of turbot with spring onion potato cake, broad bean and wild mushroom jus £17.95), then walk it off on the quiet, vast sandy beaches.
In 2013, a goal by the aforementioned Flavio Caça-Rato against Betim clinched promotion from Serie C to Serie B. There was another 60,000 crowd at the Arruda that day, and as the light bled from the Recife sky, the upper deck terraces swayed back and forth under the weight of so many bodies and so much emotion.
In defiance of ill omens, the transatlantic send-off was exuberant; for those braving the raw breezes there was sparkling wine on the upper-deck terrace.
By the start of winter, the first buyers will move in to 93 Worth Street, a 92-unit condominium that features a dog-washing station and a roof-deck terrace.
Gone is the garage and decking terrace at the back, replaced by projecting single-story extensions on two sides, with outsize east-facing windows.
You might bump into Chester and Teddy (Westley's resident donkeys) delivering groceries from the village shop, which you can order and cook for dinner in the outdoor kitchen – or on a campfire – and eat on the private decking terrace, or under fairy-lit trees.
"Some have decks, terraces," Mr. Valiotis said.
The board also encourages owners to build decks, terraces and separate rear entrances, partly as a way to improve property values.
Decked terraces with stylish sun loungers look over the magnificent beach, named after its sand, so pale it's almost white.
"Any outdoor space, even if it's simply decked, would be an incentive for the property," said Curtis Jackson, a director at Brown Harris Stevens in Manhattan, who pointed out that decks, terraces and gardens are often hard to come by in New York.
