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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' Brownstone Fetches $7.4 Million

Filed under: News, Celebrity Homes Getty ImagesAudrey Hepburn was nominated for an Oscar for her role as Holly Golightly in the 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” By Catherine Sherman Courtesy of Peter*Ashe Real Estate via ZillowThe brownstone at 169 E. 71st St. on the Upper East Side. You may remember Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard standing on these front steps. The brownstone featured prominently in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” has sold

Galapagos airport evolves to renewable energy only

The Galapagos islands are known, of course, for those lumbering, giant tortoises and as the inspiration for Darwin’s theory of evolution. Now they boast another cool distinction: an airport believed to be the only one in the world working exclusively on wind and solar energy. The metamorphosis to an earth-friendly place serving nature-loving tourists could not be more stark, considering that the airport was actually born of war.