Southampton

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…

In a move to address frequent complaints about noise and parties, the Village of Southampton’s board of trustees voted 4-1 to pass an amendment that sets a minimum two-week rental period. The shortest rental period of a house in Southampton will now be increased to 14 days or two one-week periods within 12 months.…

Platinum Capital Advisors (PCA), an independent licensed mortgage brokerage, is hosting PCA Cares, an event celebrating their grand opening in Southampton while supporting a local charity, on Aug. 13. “[PCA Cares is] a celebration to reintroduce my team and I into the neighborhood,” said Divisional Sales Manager Christine Curiale Steinmuller. “It’s a celebration to…