Nostalgia isn't enough to keep Thomas Holley, 74, in the Crown Heights brownstone he has lived in for more than 58 years.
He got married in that home and raised his children there. His basement man cave, complete with a bar and mood lighting, was an oasis where he escaped for alone time.
But now fully retired from his transit job as a bus operator and having suffered health setbacks — a heart attack and spinal surgery — he wants to trade in the brownstone for more quiet and all-year sunshine at the condo he purchased in 2017 in a Florida suburb north of Orlando.
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Nostalgia isn't enough to keep Thomas Holley, 74, in the Crown Heights brownstone he has lived in for more than 58 years.
He got married in that home and raised his children there. His basement man cave, complete with a bar and mood lighting, was an oasis where he escaped [...]
