
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel sous chef Josh Bierman inspects honey bees in hives Tuesday on the hotel's 20th-floor roof in New York City. The hotel plans to harvest its own honey and help pollinate plants in the skyscraper-heavy heart of the city. (Associated Press)

A passerby steps over lines taken down by a large tree, which was blown down by Tropical Storm Irene as it passed through the Astoria neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

The Astoria model features a center-island kitchen open to the family room on the main level with three bedrooms and two full baths upstairs.

The three-bedroom Astoria model at Stone Ridge is an end-unit town home with 2,562 square feet. It is priced from $359,990.

The Astoria model has an open family room. Buyers can add a fireplace.

The Astoria has an open family room, center-island kitchen and breakfast area on the main level. Upstairs, the master bedroom has two walk-in closets and a bath with a shower. Two more bedrooms share a second bath.

The Astoria model, an end-unit town home at the Park Square Towns at Emerald Ridge in Brambleton, has 2,562 square feet and is priced from $397,490.

** FILE ** In this Sept. 26, 2009, file photo, singer Barbra Streisand poses at the Waldorf-Astoria following her performance at the Village Vanguard in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)