A friend of ours once asked us why we were planning a stone patio for our house. Why not brick pavers? We thought about it and answered, “Montauk is a stone kind of place.” It is–and no other house we know of exemplifies it better than this one at 34 […]
Month: November 2020
Here’s the new Mets owner’s old East Hampton house
This is a fairly generic Farrell house, of the overly-gambreled style of the mid-aughts. The only thing really interesting about it is who it belongs to, Wall Streeter, $1.2-billion-insider-trading-SEC-fine-paying and new Mets owner Steven Cohen. Cohen bought the place back in 2007 for $18 million; it’s on the tonier south […]
Oceanfront for $2.2 million? Yes, please!
Here’s a no-brainer. $2-$3 million is often considered the sweet spot for Hamptons real estate buyers. Well, how about spending on the low end of that and also getting oceanfront into the bargain? This is a really cute midcentury (1950) bungalow snuggled into the dunes in Westhampton Beach. Of course […]
Record executive drops $18.1 million on Great Plains Road
Veteran rap- and dance-records executive Cory Robbins, who helped break Run-DMC, will be relaxing on Great Plains Road, Southampton, in future. Number 291 is a gracious estate, set on 1.8 acres, with a classically elegant 12,000-square-foot house. Listed by Bespoke, the property sold five years ago for $16.125 million; since […]
Charm and chic in central East Hampton
Shingles, check. White picket fence, check. Clipped hedges and stone walls, check. Vines by the outdoor shower? Check. Lush green lawn to an old garage, well, yes. You name it, the exterior of this adorable cottage (so close to the village) has it. The interiors, though? So chic it almost […]