Nancy Manolovici and her husband own a 39-foot boat that they dock at their waterfront house.

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She and her husband bought a four-story waterfront village house next to the country park.

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In addition to the eleven-bedroom main house, the waterfront property offers a coach house and two guest apartments.

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Early the next morning I went for a walk along the waterfront, past a chowder house, a saltwater taffy shop, a wax museum, and a replica Mayflower moored in the bay.

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This year, he sold his largest house, which is under construction on the waterfront, and signed on to develop a property for a major Hollywood executive.

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The marina makes the roster of sights visited by one local tour operator, Speedboat Tours, whose boat also zips past Hibiscus Island and a mansion whose exterior and waterfront deck stood in for a drug dealer's house.

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Next head across the Brooklyn Bridge to stroll the deliciously breezy Brooklyn Heights Promenade, catch an outdoor Shakespeare performance in Brooklyn's vast green Prospect Park, and scoop up a butter pecan sundae at the waterfront Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory (1 Water St), housed in a 1920s fireboat house.

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