It's a narrow, sloping house, full of objects collected by owners Eric and Natalie on their travels to West Africa, Australia, Indonesia and India.
The diving here offers something for all skill levels, with reef walls, deep and shallow shipwrecks, sloping house reefs, underwater hot springs and excellent drift dives.
There were times when he lived in mansions near Colorado ski slopes, house-sitting.
Even in the most desirable areas, near the ski slopes, houses with a view and four or five bedrooms will still only cost $500,000 to $800,000.
Set into a slope, the house has a lower level with three additional bedrooms, a family room and a recreation room with a door that opens onto the back lawn.
"PARK SLOPE OPEN HOUSE PARTY," along Fifth Avenue, from Flatbush Avenue to Ninth Street, Brooklyn.
A terraced garden for heat-loving plants, like phormiums and agaves, thymes and rosemaries, hunkers down into the slope between house and street, its yellow grasses sticking out of the snow, as fine as hair.
Beyond the legality of the licences, the increasingly accepted culture of "adventurous living" is a slippery slope for housing in general.
Most conserved land is either too wet to be developed or is of steep enough slope that housing density would likely be low.
Today, the only extant part of the scheme is the long, sloping, brutalist housing block, Southwyck House.
Smoke rose from green slopes and houses below, where, the reporter said, "terrorists" were hiding.
