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

Let me walk you in the way residents do. You come through the gate, past the fountain and the booth, and Queens Boulevard drops away. Lawn, old trees, a path. The front gate is staffed around the clock; the lobby has a doorman from seven until eleven at night. Apartment 7J is a beautifully arranged corner unit on the seventh floor: 1,248 square feet by public record, six rooms, three bedrooms, two full baths, renovated in 2018 and immaculately cared for since. Then you turn into the living room and it keeps going: twenty-eight feet, rivaling a single-family house, with a French door onto a balcony screened at the rail and at the door. Meals get their own expansive area, and the galley kitchen has stone countertops, a gas range, a dishwasher and what galleys almost never get, its own window. The bedrooms sit down their own hall, so you can shut a door on the rest: the primary is fifteen by seventeen with a wall of fitted wardrobes and its own walk-in shower, the other two near twins,...