Hamptons Open Houses to Check Out This Weekend
Open houses are a great way to find your next home, see inside a house that you have always been curious about, or just get design ideas. 15 Norton Place, Southampton Open house: Friday, August 9, 11:00AM-12:00PM Ask: $2.45 million Beds: 5 Baths: 4 Size: 0.29 acre; 3,334 square feet Features: West-facing, this property offers views…
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Montauk Never Became a Transatlantic Port
A number of people tried to make Montauk into a transatlantic port in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On paper, the idea made sense: docking ships at Fort Pond Bay and then putting goods on the Long Island Rail Road would cut a day off the typical New York-Great Britain voyage. But didn’t pan out. In 1879, Arthur…
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Update: Meadowmere, Jerome Robbins and More in Contract
Hamptons real estate news is not all gloom and doom–for instance, this week’s update features three properties that have recently gone into contract. Asking price for all three combined is $64 million. That’s pretty good, with the caveat of course that we don’t know the final sales prices yet. The property with the highest asking…
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$20M Development Transforms Sag Harbor Waterfront
What had been an ugly wasteland right in the heart of Sag Harbor is about to become the jewel in the crown of the village’s renaissance. For many years–13 in fact–the prime land at 2 West Water Street and the adjacent 1, 3, and 5 Ferry Road sat unused, while developers and owners squabbled about…
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Property of the Week: Hedges Lane, Sagaponack
“Ride your horse to the ocean,” says listing agent Carol Nobbs of this 10.4 agricultural parcel. Sounds like a scene from a Harlequin romance novel, but in this case it’s the plain truth. With frontage on Parsonage Lane (called this year “the most expensive street in the Hamptons” by Property Shark) and Hedges Lane right in…
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Hamptons Open Houses to Check Out This Weekend
Open houses are a great way to find your next home, see inside a house that you have always been curious about, or just get design ideas. 17 Bay Road, Quogue Open house: Thursday, August 8, 11:00AM-1:00PM Ask: $3.495 million Beds: 5 Baths: 5 Size: 1.8 acre; square feet NA Features: On a prestigious street, this…
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My Hamptons: Sir Ivan, Philanthropist, Recording Artist, Superhero
Read our in-depth, My Hamptons interview with Sir Ivan, the Water Mill castle lord, recording artist, philanthropist, reality television star and real-life superhero famous for his epic parties and charitable giving.
Where was Dog’s Hole Highway? Tony Tiska? More Hamptons Place Names
The Amagansett Lanes were becoming an elegant, tony part of the East End by 1926. There was just one little problem: one of the main streets was called the inelegant name of Dog’s Hole Highway. The residents petitioned the name for a name change, and ever since it’s been known as Hedges Lane. Tony Tiska’s…
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This Weekend, Don’t Miss the Shelter Island House Tour
The East End is lucky enough to boast some of the most beautiful residential real estate in the world. And the best way to experience it, we think, is via a house tour. This Saturday, August 3rd, it’s Shelter Island’s turn to show off some of its finest houses. From 2PM to 5PM, enjoy the tour…
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Design
- A Monumental Renovation on the Southampton Beachfront by Architect Andre Kikoski
- Farrow & Ball to Host Southampton Event Celebrating Design, Color and Craftsmanship
- How to Make a Home Welcoming for Holiday Guests
- Southampton Arts Center Presents Annual Architecture & Design Tour
- A Peek at The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Palm Beach Gardens at Ralph Lauren East Hampton