No one exactly plans to get old; it just happens. Real-estate fantasies, though, tend to be ageless. To misquote the late Nora Ephron, we’ve been having the same real-estate fantasy for decades. And though we’ve varied it a little—what we’re wearing—Greenwich Village, with its organically evolved but artificially preserved mix of row houses, local businesses, and effervescent street life, remains an archetype of good urban planning.
 
 
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