So she took a full-time job as a housekeeper at the Treetops nursing home in Mohegan Lake, where she worked for a year.

"We hope to raise a little over $500,000," said Ms. Patterson, who lives in Mohegan Lake.

He was 46 and lived at Mohegan Lake, N.Y.

"In my day, many people, all young boys, had pigeons," says Tony Spinola of Mohegan Lake.

Rehabilitation Support Services of Mohegan Lake also received computers.

Mohegan Lake (not completely in the town of Yorktown)

But former summer cottages, like those clustered around Mohegan Lake, which have been winterized and are now occupied year-round, generally sell for $175,000 to $225,000.

As for insular attitudes, she pointed out that her best friend in Mohegan Lake was a totally nonobservant Jewish woman.

He and his wife, Anne, have lived in Mohegan Lake for about 19 months now in their "first owned house ever."

For now - and perhaps for the future - there is Katy Sullivan, an 8-year-old from Mohegan Lake.