The Board at 230 West End Avenue

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We are a professional couple living in Portland, Oregon. My husband is one of the most prominent architects of our city. Look up Portland Brewery Blocks and the Portland Armory. His firm designed those and many other significant buildings in Seattle also. He recently had to retire because of Parkinsons. Both of our adult children live on the East Coast, one in New York City, and we thought this would be the ideal time to move there. We are an incredibly close family. I have worked in the news business for years, as a reporter and anchor. I took time off to raise my family and now am planning to go through the NYCf teachers fellows program, hoping to make a difference in a school in NYC with special needs. I was born in Seville, Spain, grew up in New Jersey and moved out West 25 years ago for a job. We made an all cash offer, had excellent financials and impeccable reference letters, some of which were from our current neighbors who went on and on to say what decent, kind and interesting neighbors we are. We were so excited.