Arielle Dollinger

Softened by a span of grid-like windows, warm light falls on an indoor lap pool shaped like a quarter note. Beyond the notehead, a second set of windows frames Northport Bay.

The online auction of a former U.S. Coast Guard housing site on Fishers Island was set to close Wednesday morning at $2.04 million — until a bidder topped the highest offer.

Outside a broad-shouldered house in East Atlantic Beach, whales have been breaking the waves of late-summer waters.

The condo is near the development's clubhouse, which houses a card room, tennis courts and an inground pool.

The subtle scratching of an overgrown tree branch against a residential roof is a quiet signal. Come wintertime, that branch and its rooftop connection become "a raceway for animals,” said home inspector Rob Byrne.

'The whole house revolves around the courtyard' Built around a verdant interior courtyard with two Magnolia trees, a 15,000-square-foot

Her husband a Bensonhurst doctor who wanted to fish, Millie Wesotski took notice of a 1960s newspaper advertisement for a set of homes on Long Island's Nissequogue River.

Neighbors turn their lawns into Halloween attractions Against a periwinkle sky, on evening's edge, fiery yellow light emanates from the ribcage of a 12-foot skeleton with a pumpkin head.

"You can't see another house from there," said the listing agent of the "extremely private" property.

In search of relief from the symptoms of his chronic illness, Jeffrey Jimenez and his wife imagined they would trade the colder, more varied New York climate for warmer Floridian air within a year.