Towns like Old Saybrook, Essex, and Lyme lie too far north of NYC to be called bedroom communities, but New Canaan, 45 miles and 65 minutes by train from Grand Central, most certainly is–and the eighth wealthiest suburb in the U.S. at that.

Dating back to 1731, the 22-square mile town has many of the same bucolic charms of those to the north, but New Canaan’s real estate values are in the stratosphere, for the old colonials, the pre- and post-war mansions, and the mid-20th century modernist houses built by architects like Marcel Breuer and resident Philip Johnson, whose famous read more >>>

Source : HuffingtonPost.Com