61-25 98th Street #7J, Rego Park, NY 11374

Come through the gate with me. The boulevard falls away, and what opens up is lawn: wide, green, close-mown, edged with old trees that have had sixty years to grow tall enough to shade the paths, and benches under them. The gatehouse is staffed around the clock and the lobby has a doorman from seven in the morning until eleven at night, so the walk to your door is an unhurried one, under trees. Now come upstairs. Apartment 7J is a beautifully arranged corner unit on the seventh floor, 1,248 square feet by public record, six rooms, three generous bedrooms and two full baths. The kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms were renovated in 2018 and immaculately cared for since, so what you step into is finished, bright and ready. And then the living room opens. Twenty-eight feet of it, a length that rivals a single-family house: a full sectional at one end for the movie, a desk and a reading lamp at the other, and still floor between them. A french door swings onto the balcony, tucked under the...