5 Donald Place

A storybook two-family in the Village of East Rockaway Some houses just get built. This one got a personality. The storybook-style front sits back behind a paver driveway, and once the landscape lighting comes on at night, people slow down to look. It’s a legal two-family home in the Village of East Rockaway, Nassau County, with 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths across two separate units on a 50x103 lot. The first-floor unit opens to a living room with hardwood floors underfoot. The white galley kitchen has a gas range and keeps everything within reach. Two bedrooms share a full bath finished in classic subway tile. It’s bright, simple and easy to live in. Upstairs is a second home of its own. The second-floor unit has an eat-in kitchen, a living room, a bedroom and a full bath. Then there’s the spiral staircase. It winds up to a finished attic bonus room, the kind of space that turns into an office, a studio or the room nobody wants to leave. Below it all, the basement adds a rec room, laundry and storage. The house runs on gas heat. Out back, a covered porch looks over a fully fenced paver yard that stretches to a detached 1-car garage. Summer nights here mean string lights along the porch and a fire going in the yard. Low-maintenance pavers mean more time out there and less time keeping it up. The location does a lot of the work. The home is in the East Rockaway School District and close to the East Rockaway LIRR station on the Long Beach Branch. Bay Park is nearby, with its golf course, dog run and the fishing dock on Hewlett Bay. Two separate units give you real options. Live in one and rent the other, or hold both as income. A legal two-family with this much character, on a 50x103 lot in the Village of East Rockaway, works either way.