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Portrait of a Village at 100
WHEN they returned from vacation in Panama a few weeks ago, Avi and Rayna Deutsch and their two young sons found that their neighbors had shoveled the snow from the front walk and driveway of their house, a three-bedroom four-bath colonial that they bought for less than $500,000 last February.
“It’s a very close sense of friendship where people are helping each other,” said Mr. Deutsch, adding that they had not experienced such overt neighborliness in Brooklyn, where they previously rented.
In the 10 months since they moved to this village in the affluent Five Towns area of southwest Nassau County, drawn by family nearby, the Deutsches have also socialized with their neighbors. Their children play together.
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