$ 479,900
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$479,900
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4
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2
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2,400
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About the Listing KWHV03 - 40020,64304
There is a sound a screen door makes when you are the only one around to hear it, and out here, 2 hours from the city on a clear road, that sound is the moment the weekend actually begins. The porch runs the full length of the house and then turns the corner, so wide you stop keeping track of where the railing ends. By the second evening you give up choosing where to sit, because every chair on it turns out to be the right one. Coffee leans against the front rail while the hillside is still waking up. The long light of late afternoon pools across the boards. This is the room you will live in most, and it does not even have walls. Beyond the steps the lawn opens flat and green and generous, all 4.71 acres of it, ringed on every side by a wall of trees that turns gold in October and goes silent under snow. There is room for the garden you have been planning in your head for years, room for a fire ring wherever the mood drops it, room for the long table that gets carried outside the minute the weather allows. A detached 2-car garage sits off the driveway, ready for the gear and the cooler and the muddy boots, and the road past it goes nowhere you did not choose to go. Inside, the house was built in 2017 and it feels it, open and bright and ready, nothing waiting to be fixed before life can start. The living room lifts to a vaulted ceiling, and a fireplace of stacked stone climbs the whole height of the wall, the kind you light in October and keep going until April. The kitchen sits open to all of it, an island with space to pull up a few stools for the Sundays that turn into long cooking projects, windows above the sink that frame trees instead of a neighbor's brick. Four bedrooms hold the upper floor, two full baths, a layout with nothing wasted and nowhere you have to make excuses for. Then there is the village, which is the part that catches people off guard. Livingston Manor sits at the edge of the Willowemoc Wild Forest, almost 15,000 acres of Forever Wild preserve laced with 40 miles of trail, where the Frick Pond Loop makes an easy morning and the Long Pond Trail runs past a lean-to and a spring waterfall on the days you want to earn the view. The creek that gave American fly fishing its start still threads right through town, there whenever the urge to wade in finds you. Afternoons fill themselves: a tasting at Eminence Road Farm Winery over in Long Eddy or Bashakill Vineyards to the south, a small-batch lager at Catskill Brewery on a Friday, wood-fired pizza at the Kaatskeller, a slow dinner built around what grew nearby at The DeBruce, a basket filled at Main Street Farm on the way home. Bethel Woods and a whole summer of lawn concerts wait 25 minutes south on the original Woodstock grounds. Manhattan stays close enough to keep the life you already have and far enough to finally set it down on weekends, just 2 hours from the city when the road runs clear. Close enough that a Thursday quietly becomes a long weekend, that the holidays unfold here instead of in a crowded terminal, that a workday handled from the porch with the laptop open and the trees in front of you still counts, somehow, as a workday. Some weekends you will not leave the porch at all. You will tell yourself you came up to hike or to fish or to clear your head, and instead you will watch the light move across the lawn and listen to nothing in particular until you understand, completely, why you signed. That is what this place keeps handing back to you, a porch you will measure the years by and a yard wide enough to see the weather coming, set in a village that still remembers exactly what it is. One evening you will stand on those steps with the trees going dark behind you and know, without needing to say a word of it, that you got this one right.
Listing Highlights
Interior Details
- Bedrooms: 4
- Bathrooms: 2 Full
- Appliances: Convection Oven, Cooktop, Dishwasher, Dryer, Refrigerator, Washer
- Air Cond: Wall/Window Unit(s)
- Heating: Forced Air
- Fireplaces: 1
- Floor: Carpet,Tile,Vinyl
- Above Ground Sq Ft:
- Below Ground Sq Ft: n/a
- Basement: Bilco Door(s),Unfinished
- Other: Breakfast Bar,Built-in Features,Ceiling Fan(s),Double Vanity,Eat-in Kitchen,Granite Counters,Open Floorplan,Open Kitchen
- Water: Well
Exterior Details
- Lot Description: No Waterfront
- Garage Capacity: 2 car
- Roof:
- Others:
- Sewer: Septic Tank
- Parking Features: Detached,Driveway,Unpaved
Financial Details
- Tax Amount: $7,640
- Taxes w/Assessments: N/A
- Tax/Property ID: 4400-020-0-0001-002-004
- Tax Year: N/A
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34 Turkey Hollow Ln Livingston Manor, NY 12758
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