South Fork

In this column, I write about existing buildings in the Hamptons and what happens to them as they get sold from one buyer to another. In this column, however, the building on the property I’m writing about is not there anymore. It is just an empty field. The hope, however, was to make it…

Six months ago, a new gas station opened for business on the Montauk Highway by Hayground in Bridgehampton. It was not a gas station in the regular sense. Called “Rever,” a French name that means “Dream” in English, the gas pumps were removed and now it featured about 50 used cars on its two-acre…

Bethenny Frankel had plenty to say after Architectural Digest recently featured her Miami  home and online trolls rushed to label it tasteless and bland. But in her response video, the Hamptons took center stage — because for Frankel, there’s no better proof of her design strategy than the returns she’s made out east. “Let…

Today, giant sculptures created by internationally known artists sit on the lawns of perhaps 50 offices, stores and cultural institutions in the Hamptons. It was not always so. Back around 2006, a bitter fight took place in Sag Harbor when one of the first of those sculptures got placed on the lawn of a…