Southampton

A big oceanfront mansion out on Billionaire’s Row along Meadow Lane in Southampton is being sold to the Town. Currently it is in contract. Before the closing, however it is to be torn down by the seller. We’re talking about an 8,900-square-foot 11-bedroom 12-bath contemporary built on 2.2 acres with 172 feet on the…

A Wading River-based real estate lawyer was arrested for allegedly stealing more than $751,000 from a client that the suspect represented in the purchase of a Southampton home, Suffolk County prosecutors said. Peter Giattino, the principal attorney at PVG Legal  Solutions PLLC, was charged with a felony count of second-degree grand larceny at Riverhead…

Twenty years ago, it came to the attention of some local historians that a small, rundown house on the banks of Lake Agawam in Southampton had been the home of a former slave named Pyrrhus Concer. It came up because the current owner had it for sale. A title search had revealed that fact.…

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…

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, members of High Society in the City of New York built grand summer mansions by the ocean in Southampton. There was tennis, golf, sunbathing and brisk salt sea air, considered a healthy restorative. One of the largest such mansions — still standing today — is “Ocean…

One of the most attractive interior spaces in the Hamptons, in my opinion, is the passenger waiting area of Hampton Jitney in the Southampton Omni. About the size of a small airline terminal, you can relax in one area where sofas and chairs are set up in a living room arrangement, sit at café…

If you drive up North Sea Road to where it ends amidst the sand dunes of Sebonac, you might notice a private driveway that goes off to your left heading for a mansion far off by the bay. Linden trees lining the drive will prevent you seeing the building. But it’s there, a splendid…

For nearly 100 years, many members of the New York City Social Set lived in a special oceanfront conclave in Southampton behind high hedgerows, a world apart from the so called riff-raff who lived in the rest of the East End communities. In real estate, these other folks were kept away from their lives…