nyc: I am interested in purchasing a classic home in NYC. Not an apartment or condo, but one where i can walk out my own door and walk my dog? Ive seen these homes in movies like "You've got mail," and "I am legend." Ive been searching and searching but no luck!|||Staten Island or Queens, forget the other boroughs if that what your looking for!|||If you want to find a classic home, try looking a little more uptown in New York. Don't look for houses directly in the city, but maybe a small town 20 or 30 miles out.|||Are you talking about a brownstone? There are beautiful brownstones in the Greenich Village area--that cost an arm and a leg of course! And others in the lower Manhattan area. Good luck. I LOVE NY!|||Hope you have $$$... Housing in NYC is ridiculously expensive.|||Those homes were brownstones. Prices on these start at over 2 million...and are very hard to come by.