The 70-foot-wide backyard could be sold, built upon or used for children's soccer games.
The 18-room house, at 143 East 63rd Street, just east of Lexington Avenue opposite the Barbizon 63, has twin staircases, seven baths, two powder rooms, eight fireplaces, and a 25-foot-wide backyard with ivy-covered brick walls and two outdoor pagodas, one furnished as a living room and the other as a dining area.
The Great Leap Forward, the obligatory nation-wide construction of backyard steel furnaces and the consequent death by starvation of 30 to 40 million people in the famine that was later blamed on "three years of natural disasters," and the catastrophic 10 years of the Cultural Revolution — these momentous events are too absurd, too cruel and too unpleasant for people to recount.
CONS: The backyard is wide but shallow; most of the usable lawn is on the side.
The lots are 18 to 20 feet wide, with just enough backyard for a picnic table, a grill and a few chairs.
I begin to describe my dream house, the slightly drafty, cedar-shingled Victorian, with the wide turrets and the backyard rolling into the water.
Each house has a small backyard, 14 feet wide and 25 to 60 feet deep.
But after the design was submitted to the city, Ventura said she was denied: The driveway that led to the backyard wasn't wide enough, and a portion of it was covered.
It would definitely be better if you had a wider open space rather than a backyard because bottle rockets can fly 50 feet (15.2 m) away from you.
Exactly opposite you will find a wide open gate, enter it into the backyard and go through, sticking to the right.
