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3. The Residence
The residence is at 224 Little Neck Road, Centerport, New
York,3 and includes a two-story, single-family house (house) and
landscaped grounds. The house is approximately 2,400 square feet
and has two bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor and
three bedrooms and two bathrooms on the first floor. The house
was built in or around 1955 and has a waterview and a private
beach. The house is set in a private wooded area. On
September 1, 1993, decedent had the residence valued through a
comparative market analysis, which concluded that the residence
was marketable at $350,000.
John Disbrow purchased the residence on March 1, 1956, and
he and decedent lived there until he died. Decedent acquired
sole ownership of the residence upon his death, and the residence
was her principal residence until she died. When John Disbrow
died, decedent’s health was failing, and her health continued to
be poor until she died. Among other things, decedent during the
time after her husband’s death suffered a kidney failure and was
under kidney dialysis; she was affected by a severe case of
peritonitis; she fractured her pelvis; she fractured her hip; she
broke both of her legs (getting out of bed); and she had multiple
heart attacks, the last of which resulted in her death. During
3 Centerport, New York, is on Long Island, New York, near
Huntington Bay of the Long Island Sound. See Rand McNally Road
Atlas 73 (Millennium ed. 2000).
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