"But Carnegie Hill is hard against Harlem, which creates a certain tension," he added.

In Carnegie Hill, too, he finds "a very real quality of country living."

I'd had lunch on Carnegie Hill with my mother and an old friend of hers, a former war correspondent who'd just written a novel.

But Carnegie Hill is an urban village like few others.

But much of the land that is now Carnegie Hill remained unsettled well into the 19th century.

The couple's new town house is in a row brownstones in Carnegie Hill.

"This becomes a walking tour that gives people a sense of the charm of Carnegie Hill," she said.

The number of excellent schools continues to make Carnegie Hill popular with families, who also like the comfortable scale.

The building was a pioneer - the first major condominium project on the northern end of Carnegie Hill.

He suspected that because the town house sits just south of the highest point in Carnegie Hill, the addition would be visible from the street.