11116 76th Drive, Forest Hills, NY 11375

A particular quiet settles over the right kind of Forest Hills street. The trees arch over the road, the houses sit back from the sidewalk, and the noise of the city ends a few blocks behind you. 111-16 76th Drive sits on a street like that — a 1935 Colonial behind an electronic gate, on a 37.25' x 100' lot with a private driveway, a detached garage, and the carried presence of a home kept carefully for ninety years. You enter into a living room with the proportions of a real room: 22' x 15', original parquet hardwood, crown molding, recessed lighting, and a decorative fireplace framed in white brick. Its a room that hosts. The dining room beyond — chandelier, wainscoting, formal but never stiff — opens to a separate sitting room overlooking the Japanese Maple out front, where afternoons settle naturally into evenings. The kitchen has been renovated to feel current without losing the bones of the house: white flat-front cabinetry to the ceiling, Caesarstone quartz countertops, a full...