Original sentence: Baruch died in 1953, the Bagatelle estate with its many signature azelea, mountain laurel and rhododendron plantings and its numerous specimen trees, was sold to the Catholic Sisters of the Good Shepherd, which developed it into the Madonna Heights School complex.The Bagatelle Nursery was sold and sub-divided into expensive large lot, upscale homes about the time the Long Island Expressway reached Half Hollow Hills in the late 1960s
Edited sentence: Baruch died in 1953,  the lovely Bagatelle estate with its many signature azelea, mountain laurel and rhododendron plantings and its numerous specimen trees, was sold to the Catholic Sisters of the Good Shepherd, which developed it into the Madonna Heights School complex.The Bagatelle Nursery was sold and sub-divided into expensive large-lot, upscale homes.about the time the Long Island Expressway reached Half Hollow Hills in the late 1960s