The New County Squires City renters are taking their money to where the grass is truly greener. They are buying weekend homes.

Habitats: The Traveling Circus Stops Here Two clowns who perform in some of the most troubled places on earth practice in a walk-up near 128th Street.

Streetscapes | 440 East 56th Street: For a Lullaby, the Bip-Bop-Bip of Tennis Balls The apartment building at 440 East 56th Street is an exemplar of how modernism and humanism can coexist.

Posting: Take That, Billy Burg! The cartoon mascot representing Jackson Heights, Queens, has re-emerged as the star of a comic strip.

Mortgages: Securing a Jumbo: No Small Task The nonconforming “jumbo” mortgage, which exceeds the conventional “conforming” loan limit of $729,750 set by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is becoming more difficult to obtain.

Big Deal: Pooh to the Plaza Property records filed last week show that a corporation linked to Andrei Vavilov closed on the purchase of a penthouse at Time Warner Center for $37 million.

Big Deal: The $18 Million Fixer-Upper A penthouse atop the Trump International Hotel and Tower owned by the financially troubled Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori is in contract to sell for $18 million.