Feeling Golden Apple’s glow in Westchester

From the March issue: Westchester County is nicknamed the Golden Apple for its prosperity, and the luxury real estate market is certainly feeling the halo effect from all that good fortune. Lately, overall prices have come down around 10 percent, said experts in the county’s housing market, but sales are brisk in the market’s high-end, which benefits from proximity to the waterfront and Manhattan in the lower Westchester region, and from sprawling country estate-like settings in the north. The Cross-Westchester Expressway, I-287, which stretches from the Tappan Zee Bridge in Tarrytown through the Connecticut border, slices through the county to create a rough north-south border.