Hamptons (NY)

September 1, 2023

The Latest Fad in the Hamptons: Pottery Wheels

Hamptonites can’t get enough of pottery wheels in their backyards. One ceramist is bringing the messy, yet soothing, hobby into the homes of the moneyed elite. […]
July 14, 2022

Wake Up, Billionaires: The Occupiers Are Coming for the Hamptons

Along for an early morning “billionaire wake-up call” with protesters on Meadow Lane. On Tuesday morning at 5 a.m., before the day’s oysters were unloaded from […]
July 13, 2022

Packing Pitchforks for the Hamptons

Along for an early morning “billionaire wake-up call” with protesters on Meadow Lane. On Tuesday morning at 5 a.m., before the day’s oysters were unloaded from […]
May 29, 2021

As the Hamptons Boom, a New World of Luxury Problems

Ragers on the beach. Art galleries on Main Street. Reservations disappearing. Who remembers the pandemic? It was 4 p.m. last Friday and a 30-something New Yorker […]
May 29, 2021

As the Hamptons Booms, a New World of Luxury Problems

Ragers on the beach. Art galleries on Main Street. Reservations disappearing. Who remembers the pandemic? It was 4 p.m. last Friday and a 30-something New Yorker […]
October 6, 2020

Kim Cattrall’s Hamptons Home for De-Stressing From the City

Kim Cattrall, one of the stars of the HBO series “Sex and the City,” is selling her longtime home in East Hampton, N.Y., a beachfront cottage […]
October 2, 2020

Love and the Lockdown

In late February, Jordan Tyler saw a TV commercial for the dating app Match, and while “not big on an online thing,” decided, nonetheless to give […]
February 1, 2020

Somewhere Between a Shared Cab and a Private Jet, It’s the Commuter Helicopter

Private jets are the ultimate symbol of our new Gilded Age: Ever more popular with the very wealthy, they have induced a sort of hand-wringing among […]
October 16, 2019

Yoga, Then an Ice Bath

“Yoga and an ice bath in the Hamptons,” the email from Danielle McCallum read. I enjoy two of those three things and kept reading. Ms. McCallum […]
December 27, 2017

Make Mine the Burlap Wrap

How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York. Workers in the East Side Access tunnel, […]