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Today she's Jenny from a private road in Brookville. But as the 2009 Kips Bay Decorator Show House is reminding the public, Jennifer Lopez really used to be from a block in her native Bronx.

A framed photo of Lopez sits on a desk in one of the rooms at the show house, a fund-raiser for the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club which opens today on the Upper East Side. The prop is an ode to Lopez, one of Kips Bay's most famous alums.

The Manhattan design firm of Paula + Martha designed the room -- a fantasy office for the executive director of the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, which serves disadvantaged children. Many of the materials used by the designers were natural or inexpensive or even both -- like the distinctive burlap embroidered in bright colors with slogans by some of the kids currently in Kips Bay programs.

Lopez performed at the Castle Hill-based Kips Bay for the "Today" show in 2002 -- on the same stage where she danced as a youth.

See more photos of the show house -- including the room by Paula + Martha -- here.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

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The Brookville house Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony recently bought next door has taken a real beating online for its so-called lack of style. So the blog Hooked on Houses asked its readers to come up with five things to change about the house to make Lopez "feel at home" (never mind that the previous owners probably took the furniture with them).

So far, they've come up with a lot of ideas, from hanging chandeliers to adding gables to gutting the kitchen. But there are a few who actually like the 1972 white Colonial and its traditional decor.

"I so love the way it looks now … and I just know that JLo will destroy all the things about it I love," wrote Sue, adding, "I hate to see such old beauties torn down."

"How would one possibly bring the bling to a very formal and traditional home like this and not make it look ridiculous?" asked Cindy. "I don’t think Colonials lend themselves to too much decorating variation, but this will be interesting to research ... Maybe a shiny brass toilet seat might be a start."

"I think it’ll be a tear-down, which is kind of sad," Ritasmeeta wrote.

As RealLI first reported, Lopez and Anthony bought the five-bedroom, 4 ½-bath house in December for $2.05 million. The 2.24-acre property had been on the market several months. It is located behind the same estate gates at the end of the private road where the couple's main house resides, leading to speculation that they merely purchased it to preserve their privacy.

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BusinessWeek magazine came up with the list of the 25 most affluent towns in the United States. Behind Brookville -- home of the now-famous compound belonging to Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony -- there was Roslyn Estates, Oyster Bay Cove, Old Westbury, Munsey Park and Muttontown (a tie), Lloyd Harbor, Sands Point and North Hills.

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Celeb watchers say that since Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony bought the house next door to their home in Brookville that they must be staying together, but Star reports in its latest issue that the stars "have not been getting along at all lately" there. A source goes on to say that, "It's been war!" there. Read about their homes -- and see photos -- by clicking here.

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Yes, now TMZ has weighed in on Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's latest purchase -- the house next to theirs behind the gate to their estate in Brookville. "While the house looks nice from the outside, it's definitely a designer nightmare on the inside," according to the site. "Hopefully the $2.05 mil price tag didn't include the furniture."

Fans are torn on the juicy gossip site's post. "This place is almost as tacky as Graceland!" wrote one reader. Another: "Are you kidding me? I'd be grateful to own it -- furniture included. A lot of us can't afford anything like that."

See what else most of us can't afford -- more photos of both Brookville houses Lopez and Anthony own.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have brand-new neighbors -- themselves. Public records show that the superstar couple purchased the home next door to the one they already own in Brookville for $2.05 million.

The sale closed Dec. 19 on the 2.24-acre property. The deed is in Anthony’s name.

The five-bedroom, 4 ½-bath Colonial originally went on the market last March for $2.299 million with Regina Rogers of Prudential Douglas Elliman. The property shares estate gates with the home that Lopez and Anthony already own. The couple reportedly spent millions of dollars to fortify security and the gates to the estate prior to the birth of the twins, Max and Emme, last year.

At the time the house went on the market, Rogers told Newsday, “In order to access this house, you have to enter through the estate gates. I love the approach, and the long Belgian block-lined bluestone driveway."

The home that Lopez and Anthony had already owned was purchased by Anthony in 2000 for $3.7 million. It has been reported that J-Lo’s mom, Guadalupe, moved in with the couple last year to help out after the twins were born. Could this house be for her?

Read more about the Lopez-Anthony properties here.

There's been nothing but tabloid trouble for Long Island's own Jennifer Lopez. First came Us Weekly's late December report that Lopez and Marc Anthony's marriage is in crisis. At the LA premiere of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Lopez was seen without her 8-carat diamond ring. It followed a "tense" Thanksgiving at their Brookville manse.

Then, Lopez looked distant as she sat next a smiling Anthony at the Jan. 2 inauguration of the new governor of Puerto Rico.

And while the couple smiled as they walked the Golden Globes runway Jan. 11, Lopez again didn't wear her very runway-worthy ring.

Blogs have now picked up the New York Post story that Lopez is trying to "worm" her way into Barack Obama's inauguration next week.

One article blames their marital struggle to balance family life with twins Max and Emme on Long Island with their careers, which reportedly led Lopez to recently say, "'This is my life now? I'm a Long Island housewife?"

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Looks like Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will be putting out the welcome mat for new neighbors soon. The house next door to the couple's home went on the market earlier this year for $2.299 million, listed with Regina Rogers of Prudential Douglas Elliman. It is now listed as “in contract” on the Prudential Web site.

The five-bedroom, 4 ½-bath white Colonial, built in 1972, sits on 2.24 acres. It is accessed through estate entry gates shared by the Lopez/Anthony compound. It’s been reported that prior to the birth of twins Max and Emme, the expectant couple spent millions to fortify the gates and improve security at their mansion next door.

In the meantime, it looks like Lopez and Anthony may be spotted on the North Shore more often, now that their Bel Air, Calif., mansion was just listed for sale. According to the celebrity real estate blog Real Estalker, they’ve listed their “French farmhouse estate” there for $8.5 million. The couple’s home in Brookville is a 10,000-square-foot home on Country Lane. Public records show that Anthony purchased the home in 2000 for $3.7 million.

A Cove Neck estate owned by Grammy-winning record producer Ric Wake was reclaimed by the bank at auction earlier this week in Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola, the court clerk's office confirms.

The "upset price" for the home had been set at $4.4 million. There were no bidders. The property is now owned by Bancorp Bank.

Wake, who has produced recordings for Brookville residents Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez and singer Mandy Moore, has had the home on the market for the past year, listed at $6.5 million. While the bank now has ownership of the property, it will still be represented by Prudential Douglas Elliman’s John Martin and Barbara Brundige, who could not be reached for comment.

Tennis great John McEnroe and former wife actress Tatum O’Neal at one time lived in the carriage house on the 4.18-acre compound, when it was owned by McEnroe’s parents. They sold the property in 2000.

The home was featured last year in an episode of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Jennifer Lopez didn't like the interview she gave to a fashion magazine, so Tina Brown decided to run it on her Daily Beast site. In it, Lopez says she once had a nervous breakdown, might send Max and Emme to Scientology school and doesn't want to get into her reasons for not breastfeeding.

But the really juicy stuff is about her Brookville estate and what goes inside there.

" 'Don't blow the horn,' I tell my driver as we approach the gates. 'I'm sure we're being watched. A guard will appear,' " writes Kevin Sessums. "Sure enough, the ornate iron gates swing open and a large Latin guard speeds toward us on a Segway Human Transporter, his ear glued to a walkie-talkie."

Sessums continues, "I'm here to see Miss Lopez," I inform him as glares at me through the window. We are led through a canopy of beech trees and oaks on the immaculately manicured grounds of the Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez estate on the North Shore of Long Island­."

The driver parks "behind a $300,000 Audie Spyker sports car" from which Anthony "emerges from the driver's side and stares back at me. In a T-shirt and a pair of clam diggers that reveal a tattoo on his right calf, he strides into the house through a side door without a word."

Sessums meets Lopez "in a dimly lit pine study filled with gold records and Grammy awards." She feels sick, her "unwashed hair is pulled severely back and there's a halo of frizz around the crown of her head. She wears no make-up, her eyes are glassy, and her feverish cheeks are aglow."

At one point, Max begins to cry. Lopez runs up and grabs both twins and sits with them through the interview.

"Emme's ears are already pierced with tiny gold hoops in them. Max is wearing a black onesie with an array of sequins on its back."

Read the full interview here, and what New Yorker magazine had to say about it here.

And click here to read more about the house -- and see photos.

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Jennifer Lopez trained for her California triathlon last month mostly inside her Brookville gym, reports Celebrity Baby Blog. "While her indoors-only technique might be perceived as unconventional by her fellow triathletes, it did offer the unique advantage of added time with the twins," according to the blog. Reporting on an "Entertainment Tonight" interview with Lopez, the blog quotes her as saying, "I could just throw the babies in a little playpen on the floor, or their little mat. They'd just be right there, and if they got cranky I'd pick them up and put them on my lap while I rode the bike." Read more about Lopez's house -- and see photos -- by clicking here.

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Here are some new photos of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's property in Brookville. They were shot by the Nassau County assessor's office:

To read more about Lopez' house, click here.

The Elle writer who interviewed Jennifer Lopez at her Brookville home for the magazine's September cover story writes that “'house' is an understatement on par with calling Stephen Hawking 'bright.' It’s less house than estate — compound, even — hidden behind a gate at the end of an all-but-unlabeled street that I completely overshot while driving here. It’s less 'MTV’s Cribs' than it is Robb Report." Lopez gives the interview in her office, which the writer describes as "less workspace than trophy room. As it should be, really; with Lopez and her husband, Marc Anthony, having sold nearly 50 million albums worldwide between them, that’s a lot of platinum and gold plaques to display on the dark-honey wood walls. Add in the various Grammys, AMAs, and other awards, and I half expect to see a PhD diploma in astrophysics tucked in among the hardware. But there’s a desk, so it’s an office — and behind the desk sits Jennifer Lopez." Read more about Lopez's house -- and see photos -- here.

That's what Jennifer Lopez tells ABC's "Good Morning America," as you'll see from this clip. Max and Emme are indeed sleeping at the same time, too. Which is good for Lopez, who is now training for a triathlon this fall.

In the meantime, Star reports that Lopez and husband, Marc Anthony, spend "thousands of dollars a week on baby clothes" and that the twins "rarely wear the same thing twice." In fact, much of what they wear is "designer."

And more news from Brookville's most famous resident: New York magazine reports that Lopez will "executive-produce an adaptation of her 2002 chick flick, 'Maid in Manhattan,' creating a series about a 'young Latina from the Bronx working at a Manhattan hotel who tries to make it in the world.' "

For the Lopez archives, read here.

It appears as though Jennifer Lopez is in diva overdrive. The singer-actress-designer is reportedly wreaking havoc all over the North Shore for two reasons: Max and Emme, her 4-month old twins.

According to Star magazine, Jennifer Lopez, who lives in Brookville, “wants everything with the newborns to be handled perfectly, and she trusts nobody to do it right. Not even her hubby, Marc Anthony,” says an insider.

It was also noted that Lopez requested a children’s store in Greenvale — Funky Monkey — to close to the public while she shopped as well as boss around retail staffers at the Tony Americana Manhasset. Oh, and she enforces a strict gag order on those who ring up her purchases at such places as Scoop in Greenvale.

Fortunately for the general public, the queen is not always out. The article went on to say that Lopez receives two daily shipments of whatever she wants at the gated home, plus daily shipments of pre-made meals. Since the babies were born, deliveries are now made to the security guard at the gate.

Read about the Lopez house -- and see photos -- by clicking here.

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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony became famous for their voices, so it should come as no surprise, if you believe one report, that their Brookville house is all about sound. "All you can hear is noise," a source tells Star magazine. "Screaming, phones ringing, babies crying, TVs blaring. It's madness." And the noise level has gotten worse since Lopez' mother, Guadalupe, moved in to help the twins, Max and Emme. Read more about the Lopez-Anthony house -- and see photos -- here.

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Guadalupe Lopez, Jennifer Lopez's mother, has moved into her daughter and son-in-law Marc Anthony's Brookville home to be near her grandchildren, Max and Emme, reports In Touch Weekly. "Jennifer has been having her mom stay at their home to help out with the kids," a source tells the magazine. "She likes having her around, even if it's just to ask her advice."

And there's more news from the magazine about life inside the gated Long Island home: Lopez "exercises late at night," doing "squats and lunges in between feedings when she can't get back to sleep." Other times, "she'll hit her home gym at 4 a.m. to work out before the babies wake up."

Read about the house -- and see photos -- here.

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Public records show and a source confirms that My9 News reporter Lynda Lopez had been the owner of a home on Scallop Avenue in East Hampton that sold earlier this year for $895,000. Records show Lopez purchased the property in 2003 for $695,000.

Lopez, like her older sister singer Jennifer Lopez, is a Bronx native but her Long Island roots are strong. She began her broadcasting career at Long Island radio stations WBAB-FM and WLIR-FM, and graduated with a degree in broadcasting and communications from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

If Lopez has found another place on the East End, she may need to consult new mom J-Lo on decorating a nursery. Us Weekly has reported that Lopez is expecting her first child with boyfriend Adam Goldfried.

Jennifer Lopez and husband, Marc Anthony, live in Brookville with their twins Max and Emme. Read about their home here.

Star magazine reports that new mother Jennifer Lopez, who lives in Brookville, thwarts the baby blues with aromatherapy. "Jennifer uses lavender all around her house," Star quotes a source as saying. "It really seems to be working." The source says there are fresh lavender plants in the kitchen, and that lavender spray is used on her linens. Read about Lopez and Marc Anthony's house -- and see photos -- here.

What's going at Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's house in Brookville now that twins Max and Emme are home? "Marc loves to stand outside the nursery door and hear Jennifer singing lullabies to the children in Spanish," reports Life & Style Weekly in its latest issue. Read more about the house -- and see photos -- here.

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TLC announced today that Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and their twins, Max and Emme, will star in a new reality show being taped at their Brookville home.

“Jennifer is unbelievably passionate about life and will be an incredible role model for our audience,” Angela Shapiro-Mathes, TLC president said. “I’m thrilled to be partnering with her on a series that will take our audience into a fascinating world. It’s a fun, emotional journey that will be inspirational and yet very relatable to today’s women.”

Lopez is co-creater and co-executive producer of the show, which is being called a docuseries.

Read more about Lopez and Anthony's house -- and see photos -- here.

Jennifer Lopez and month-old twins Max and Emme grace the cover of the March 31 issue of People magazine which hit newsstands today, complete with glossy interior and exterior photos of the Brookville home that Lopez shares with husband Marc Anthony.

The magazine declares, “the family’s redbrick mansion is kid country, with his and her rocking ducks from FAO Schwarz, a pink pedal car for Emme and a yellow one for Max, and two baby nurses on round-the-clock duty.” Lopez and Anthony are pictured outside the home pushing matching $3,000 prams, said to be gifts from their friends Eva Longoria Parker and Ken Paves. A 1962 Mercedes 190SL sits outside the home's columned portico. The pair are said to have just emerged from three months of seclusion at the estate.

The nursery, complete with wrought-iron cribs and crystal chandelier, is decorated in soft cream-colored tones. “Their room is right next to ours,” Lopez tells People. The proud parents are shown feeding the babies in front of a fireplace in the room.

Anthony says that just hours before a scheduled C-Section, Lopez was busy decorating a downstairs bedroom, and rearranging furniture.

That's what In Touch magazine is reporting on Jennifer Lopez. Read about her Brookville house -- and photos -- here.

Reuters reports that the much-anticipated People photos of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's newborns Max and Emme will be on newsstands Friday. The interview took place at their Brookville home. Read about the home -- and see photos -- here.

Last week Marc Anthony talked about how difficult it was to leave wife, Jennifer Lopez, and their newborn twins, Max and Emme, to make an appearance at a New York City Police Department benefit. Today there are photos from US Magazine of Lopez and Anthony out at NBC Studios, leaving behind the diaper changes and baby cries and bottle feedings back home in Brookville. See more photos of the outing from Gossip Girls and of the Brookville compound.

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Cindy Adams writes in the New York Post that Marc Anthony finally left the Brookville house he shares with wife, Jennifer Lopez, for the first time since the birth of their twins, Max and Emme, to appear at New York City Police Department fund-raiser Tuesday. "Even though I'm a little busy with our babies, I came," he says. "This is my first time out of the house since the babies came." Read more about that house -- and see photos -- here.

Today real estate sources tell RealLI that an extension is being put on new parents Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's 10,000-square-foot home in Brookville. (Read more about the house here.) In the meantime, London's Daily Mirror is reporting that the twins are receiving massages from a professional masseuse. And the newborns are getting two Shetland ponies. Lopez and Anthony have also reportedly hired a color therapist for Max and Emme's nursery. "Jennifer has gone all out to give the twins an amazing childhood," the tabloid reports. "She had the nursery painted a beautiful aquamarine and light blue -- colors which are supposed to have intelligence-boosting properties." Then there's this from Britain's Daily Mirror: Lopez has turned into a "germaphobe" since having the babies. To that end, she has supposedly banned flowers and presents to make sure the nursery is spotless. "She is also paranoid about hygiene. The twins' wing is totally sterile, and all flowers and presents are stored in a separate area so they don't contaminate the babies' area," according to the newspaper. "It may sound excessive, but she only has her kids' best interests at heart and wants to give them the start in life she never had." The newspaper reports that guests are asked to wear masks and use anti-germ lotion before going inside the nursery.

No word on whether the twins' cries are keeping them up all night, but Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's next-door neighbors in Brookville are selling their house. The asking price is $2.299 million.

The five-room, four-bath, one half-bath Colonial was built in 1972. "Enter through estate gates at the end of a private and lovely tree-lined street," writes listing agent Regina Rogers of the Locust Valley office of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate in the description of the house. She is referring to the "million-dollar gates" fortified at the Lopez and Anthony property in anticipation of the birth of their son and daughter, Max and Emme. Apparently the owner, a divorce attorney who put the house on the market Sunday, also lives behind those gates on a separate 2.25-acre property.

"In order to access this house, you have to enter through the estate gates," says Rogers. "I love the approach, and the long Belgian block-lined bluestone driveway."

The house she's selling, she says, "is wonderful for entertaining," with two wood-burning fireplaces, and has "a lot of wonderful architectural detail throughout."

See photos of the Lopez and Anthony house here.

People magazine reports that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's newborn twins have received "a ton of embroidered pillows with their names on them,” in addition to personalized baby 100-percent cotton carriers from Baby K’tan. Recently, the Lopez family was seen shopping at Baby Gap in Americana Manhasset. Read more about the Lopez-Anthony Brookville home here.

That's the question asked on the Habitually Chic blog, which contains photos (like this one) from Vogue Living of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's Brookville home, pre-newborn twins. "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" star Thom Filicia decorated the home some time back to make it both chic and bohemian. Read more about what he did here, and all of RealLI's postings about the Lopez-Anthony abode here.

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Here are several newly posted aerial shots of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's house in Brookville. Read more about the house here.

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New parents Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony reportedly "spent millions" to fortify the red-brick wall and wrought iron gates at their Brookville estate, according to the March 3 issue of Life and Style Magazine. "The couple plan to hunker down with the babies at the couple's heavily guarded 10,000-square-foot mansion," the article says. Read more about the house and what the superstars have done to prepare for the recently delivered twins here.

Newsday is reporting that Brookville resident Jennifer Lopez is in the hospital, although it's unclear if she is in labor or has delivered her twins. Read the full report here.

That's according to the latest issue of Star, which reports that the Jennifer Lopez, who is expecting twins, "hasn't been able to sleep because she's so uncomfortable." According to the article, she gets up every few hours to read or watch television and that this drives husband, Marc Anthony, "crazy because he's a light sleeper." Anthony, according to a "source," has moved into a guest bedroom. The article doesn't make clear which of the star couple's houses this is happening in, but they do have five bedrooms at their Brookville estate. So there's plenty of room.

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Looking to party like a Hollywood celebrity next summer?

There may be no better place than Goose Creek, a 5.5 acre estate in Wainscott South that is available for rental for summer 2008 for $400,000. While that may seem a tidy sum, it’s a relative bargain compared to the $600,000 asking price for summer 2007.

The 25,000 square foot home overlooks Georgica Pond, and has a steam room, sauna, tanning bed and its own barber shop. There is even a theater that can seat more than 100 of your closest friends. Former renters have included music mogul Jay-Z and Brookville’s own Jennifer Lopez. Academy award winner Geena Davis married there in 2001 and Rosie O’Donnell hosted Madonna’s 40th birthday at the mansion.

But you may have to act fast. Listing agent Susan Breitenbach of the Corcoran Group says that the property, which is also for sale for $19.95 million, has seen some, “good interest lately. It seems that the strong Euro is quite a factor.”

Brookville resident Jennifer Lopez is "the real suburban deal," designer Michael Kors tells People in its latest issue. (According to the article, Kors "grew up 20 minutes away" from Lopez and husband Marc Anthony's mansion.) Lopez is apparently having twins, as Real LI has noted -- a boy and a girl. And the mother-to-be is setting up one of three nurseries at the Brookville home. Baby boutique Petit Tresor is designing the nurseries on Long Island and in Los Angeles and Miami with "traditional sleigh cribs and Unltrasuede gliders from Europe," as well as "silk and organza sheet sets" with the babies' names embroidered on the linens "later on." Says a source: "She's very involved with everything. Her taste is very elegant ... very luxurious."

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$40,000 -- that's how much Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are spending on the nursery at Brookville, according to Rush & Molley in today's Daily News. That price includes cashmere outfits. Moses baskets, Smushy teddy bears, Balmoral carriages, suede play mats, jogging strollers, Peg Perego strollers and "gilded cribs." An insider tells the paper: "She wants them filled with the most chic furniture from Europe and embroidered linens from France."

That's according to the New York Post's pagesix.com, which reports that expectant mother Jennifer Lopez "oversaw the construction of a nursery" at her Brookville home in 2005. An "insider" is quoted as saying, "A frilly white bassinet, a wooden crib and a fancy, pastel-colored mobile were in the process of being set up in a light-blue room that had its own bathroom and a private hallway leading to the nanny's quarters. Plush baby dolls and soft toy animals were everywhere."

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Century 21 Laffey in Greenvale has just put open land on the market said to be at Brookville's "highest elevation." The two parcels, at 3-1/2 acres each, are being marketed for $2.6 million and $2.7 million. They can also be bought as one seven-acre parcel for $5.3 million. According to listing agent Barry Paley's Web site, each lot can accommodate a 10,000- to 12,000-square foot home and has permits. "The land is up a beautiful country road," says Paley. "When you drive up, you feel like you're in the deepest part of Vermont." As for the views? "Once a house is built on the site, you'll be able from the second floor to see the Tam O'Shanter Club," Paley says. The property, in the Jericho school district, is near the Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's home.

"An insider" tells In Touch that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are "designing two nurseries -- one in Long Island and one in her LA home." That one "in Long Island" would be in Brookville, where she and Anthony have a 10,000-square-foot home.

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Allure magazine reports that Jennifer Lopez, who lives in this 10,000-square-foot mansion in Brookville with husband, Marc Anthony, "spends her rare downtime cooking and watching movies at home." According to the November cover story, her favorite dishes are "Nuyorican staples like breaded chicken and yellow rice" and her favorite movie is "Finding Nemo." Anthony -- who, the story says, calls Lopez "Lola," even though her name is "tattooed in cursive on his wrist" -- bought the house in 2000 for $3.7 million, four years before they married. Recently, as Real LI reported, Anthony and Lopez have been renovating the house. Could it be because they're expecting?

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Long Island's "it" couple will be home for Thanksgiving, reports US Weekly. Their Brookville mansion, built in 1941, has five bedrooms and eight baths -- plenty of space for their upcoming arrival -- although who knows what renovations are under way.

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Call it the Brookville
baby boom -- not just of twins Jennifer Lopez is supposedly expecting but the boom of hammers and nails at her and Marc Anthony's North Shore estate. A tipster tells Real LI that the couple has been pouring millions of dollars into renovating their property -- which Anthony bought in 2000 for $3.7 million -- from the grand gate and brick wall at the entrance to improvements on the pool, cabana and driveway. And under his real name Marco Muniz, Anthony recently sought permission "to install an automatic sprinkler installation throughout a three-story building" at the estate. Could all this have to do with the reported pregnancy? Maybe, but last year Vogue Living reported that even after extensive renovations were done to the house featured in that magazine's shoot, Lopez thinks the home is "a work in progress. I think any home is."

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