<p>Where do Cornell profs live? For people of such high social esteem, there aren’t any really nice houses here in Ithaca, or at least of what I’ve seen.</p>
<p>in grannie’s basement eating pies</p>
<p>you’re looking in the wrong neighborhoods.</p>
<p>Try Cayuga Heights, and the Forest Home area near the Plantations.</p>
<p>Also try all of the surrounding rural areas – along Cayuga Lake, in Ellis Hollow, etc.</p>
<p>Plus there’s also more to life than nice houses.</p>
<p>Head out to areas of Lansing, along the lake. Streets of McMansions out there. (you get a fairly good overview if you are sitting on the left side of the plane and taking off to the north out of the ithaca airport). Also, a lot of profs do live in cayuga heights (along with Skorton) and they drive the prices of those houses a lot higher than one would think.</p>
<p>also, there are some in the bryant park area (next to collegetown)</p>
<p>Historically, professors lived in the Cornell Heights nieghborhood of Ithaca (directly north of campus) and the Bryant Park neighborhood of Ithaca (ESE of Collegetown). Both of those were 1900s era housing developments geared towards professors.</p>
<p>By the 1930s, Cayuga Heights was the place to be. Skorton’s house is off of Sunset Park Drive, if I recall correctly. Cayuga Heights is the village you travel in to get to the mall from Cornell.</p>
<p>By the 1980s, the general shift was to Lansing, Dryden, and the town of Ithaca. As a previous poster mentioned, new housing developments are prominent along the lake (another favorite of professors). Believe it or not, new houses in these areas can run upwards of $800,000 (over 4x more than the average price in Ithaca), and that’s not even including the ones along the lake. </p>
<p>On occasion, a professor will live in one of the other towns or outside of the county, but it’s not that common.</p>