Now, he said, buying an older house with a seven-foot-wide garage is tantamount to "having a house with no garage at all".
The duct work is exposed, the columns are raw concrete, the amphitheater has a 16-foot-wide heavy garage door.
But I felt that when he summarily trashed the work of professional critics ("There are plenty of subjects too important to leave to the experts") as well as rock writing in this country ("ho-hum"), he was painting with a brush about as wide as a garage door.
And our new proposal to permit car-share vehicles in a wide range of garages and lots would allow more New Yorkers to have access to this economical transportation option.
Goshen $775,000 215 Knoell Road, Rockland 4 3 1 11 weeks 7-year-old wood farmhouse; granite counters, upgraded appliances, 2 fireplaces, wide-plank floors, 3-car garage, 11-acre lot; taxes $18,500; listed at $999,900.
$600,000 to $899,999 Old Greenwich $895,000 3 Brookside Parkway Number of bedrooms: 3 Number of full bathrooms: 2 Number of half bathrooms: 0 Weeks on market: 17 weeks 78-year-old stone and wood Cape Cod; dining room, stone fireplace, beamed ceilings, wide-plank floors, 1-car garage, 0.26-acre lot; taxes $5,506; listed at $929,500.
Mr. Gold also likes vintage Porsches, and he has a garage full of them -- just past the pool and wide lawn.
Maybe if downtown brings itself uptown to take a look, Chelsea's wide-open, ex-garage spaces will offer something more appealing than air-conditioning in the weeks ahead.
I'd turn a corner and see, in the wide, dark doorway of a garage, a man standing in the center, butchering meat.
