A Modern Answer to the Commune
The two had written their own
evocative ad but, like Ms. Berger and Ms. Hazard, had not found the real estate.
At that first meeting, all had taken to each other, but Ms. Hazard and Ms. Berger assumed
that the four could never be a good match. Ms. Bronk, you see, envisioned a substance-
free, vegetarian home, while Ms. Hazard likes a glass of wine when she hula hoops, and
Ms. Berger prefers a bit of meat in her diet.
But late last week, the four joined forces, along with Rupert Poole, 30, a horticulturalist
Ms. Berger met last summer. As it turned out, Ms. Berger said, "everyone was willing to
compromise on their original intention because we shared a vision for a house."
Yesterday, the five plus one more, an artist's assistant and friend of a friend of Ms.
Berger's, signed a lease on a spic-and-span house with a stupendous backyard in the
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens section of Brooklyn.
"The core of what we wanted was the same," Ms. Berger said happily. "The fact that we
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