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“I love this neighborhood,” said Rondo Moses, looking out his backbedroom window on the third floor of a building at 430 Clinton Ave. in Brooklyn. Beautiful brownstones line Vanderbilt Avenue in the foreground. The Williamsburgh Savings Bank, Brooklyn’s most famous landmark, towers in the distance. Mr. Moses lives in the Clinton Hill Historic District, renowned for its mid-19th-century mansions, row houses, and early 20thcentury apartment buildings. Clinton Hill is bordered on the east by the Fort Greene Historic District, which is anchored by Fort Greene Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Together, the two neighborhoods form one of the largest and loveliest historic sections of New York. They also now comprise two of the strongest housing markets in New York — an extraordinary change from 10 years ago, when apartments went begging. As an example, the renters living in Mr. Moses’s one-bedroom condo — which would now sell for around $425,000 — had refused to buy it for $38,000 in 1993.
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