Mrs. Clinton Checks Out $1.7-Million Home in N.Y.

Hillary Rodham Clinton looked at a seven-bedroom Colonial house this week that would cost $1.7 million, about $2 million less than a house she saw in June.

The house, sheltered from the street by trees and rocky walls, is within walking distance of fashionable Scarsdale in southern Westchester County. The neighborhood is 22 miles north of Times Square and half an hour by rail from Grand Central Terminal.

The house has neighbors nearby and some were not pleased Thursday at the prospect of having the first lady and would-be senator in their midst.

“The reason I moved here was because it was quiet,” said Steven Bongiorno, a Manhattan public relations man who lives about a mile away. “If she moves here, it would mean a major lifestyle change in what is really a sleepy hamlet: parking, press, TV, news conferences, you name it. . . . We’re talking about a major logistical nightmare.”

Mrs. Clinton, who is considering a run for the U.S. Senate, must move to New York by election day 2000 to be eligible.