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Joseph Gregory Relists In The Hamptons

Filed under: Estates

When it comes to real estate if at first you don't succeed, list, list again. The Wall Street Journal reports that former Lehman Brothers president Joe Gregory has relisted his beautiful Bridgehampton mansion at a new lower price. This was our estate of the day back in September 2008 when it was listed for $32.5 million. We watched the price tumble to $27.9 million before it was taken off the market. Now it's back with a new broker, Beate Moore of Sotheby's International Realty, new listing pictures and a price of $25 million.

Gregory bought the 9,500-square-foot oceanfront home for $19 million in January 2007. The Hamptons home was a new eight-bedroom spec house which was built on 2.5 acres in Bridgehampton, New York. Gregory and his wife Niki spent several million dollars in renovations but reportedly only spent less than a month total in the home before it was first listed. The home includes two master suites and a a second floor deck, The property has a pool area surrounded by plush green lawns and a sandy path leading across the dunes and to the ocean.

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Historic Hamptons Site Listed For $81.5 Million

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Filed under: Real Estate Developments

A massive swath of land in Southampton, New York just hit the market for $81.5 million. The Olde Towne Association has unveiled its completed 50-acre historic site. The site includes the largest mature tree move in history and offers seven building parcels for sale for a total $81.5 million, the largest land offering in Southampton Village. The four acre individual lots are available from $10.5 to $13.5 million dollars, some with second floor pond and ocean views.

Andrew Saunders of Saunders & Associates is the listing real estate broker and calls the area one of the "most rarified settings in the Hamptons."

The property is the site of the first English settlement in New York and developer Bob Gianos, founder and president of East End Properties LLC is only the seventh titled owner in 370 years. He has created a total of 10 buildable parcels with a central tree-lined green area of open space, a nature preserve at one end and open meadows at the other, a total of over a third of the space of the entire property. A separate set of roads enter from the rear of each parcel for construction and service. Gianos donated 5.5 acres to the adjacent Fowler Nature Preserve and partnered with the Community Preservation Fund to create a separate park across the street.

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RSVIP: Anthony Shriver Hosts Best Buddies Gala at Ashgrove Farm

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A meaningful cause can turn an elegant evening into a transformative event. Co-host Anthony Shriver's charisma, Kennedy-family good looks, and passion for Best Buddies, an organization that encourages friendships with mentally and physically challenged individuals, as well as career training and job placement, turned the organization's third annual Hamptons gala into a kind of upbeat epiphany for guests.

Leafy bamboo in pots swayed in the breezy tents that housed the Southeast Asian-themed Best Buddies Gala at Ashgrove Farm in Watermill on Saturday, August 21. During cocktails, tables packed with silent-auction items also beckoned: tickets to watch the New York Rangers, to catch the "Addams Family" on Broadway, or see Jimmy Buffett in concert. Travel items included a round-trip flight to and from the Hamptons and brightly colored luggage so plentiful, the woman who won it wondered if it would fit into her car.

The famed Robbins Wolfe "eventeurs," caterers in common parlance, served up Masala crab cakes with pomegranate chutney, toasted coconut kahuku shrimp, and Portabello tempura. Yum. Filigreed metal lanterns with votive candles lined the covered walk to the dinner tent, where eight stems of purple orchids in jade bowls were surrounded by shimmering gold chargers on every table.

Anthony Shriver admitted that it wouldn't have been so easy to get his little daughter Carolina to fly down from Hyannis Port with him to Long Island for the Best Buddies Gala except that "Anne [Hearst McInerney, above right] gave her a little baby rabbit the last time we came." He then kidded that Hearst McInerney would provide chickens in the gift bags.

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Christie Brinkley Lists In North Haven

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

Christie Brinkley is selling in the Hamptons again. The supermodel has turned real estate investor, buying and fixing up homes in the area. The home she recently listed in North Haven is, according to the Wall Street Journal, part of the collection of Hamptons real estate that Brinkley has collected over the years and held on to even after her ugly divorce a couple of years ago from Hamptons architect Peter Cook.

The five-bedroom home dates back to 1843. The classically-columned waterfront mansion is on a 4.5 acre lot that comes with a pool and 327 feet of beachfront. Brinkley told the WSJ that she's too busy to maintain the home especially because she is launching several new businesses. She paid $7.15 million for the house in 2004.

The North Haven house has views both of the harbor and the surrounding bay. Inside there are four fireplaces and wide-plank pine floors. There are three stories and the main floor has a living room, adjacent sitting room, formal dining room, open kitchen with soapstone and marble counters, a great room with another sitting and dining area, powder room, mud room, pantry and full bath. An oak banister staircase takes you to the second floor and four of the five bedrooms including a master bedroom suite with a separate sitting room, master bath and outdoor terrace. A third floor includes a fifth bedroom, a separate study and storage area. It is listed at $15.75 million with Jay Flagg of Prudential Douglas Elliman.

Brinkley's Tower Hill in Bridgehampton has been listed for the past three years at $30 million. Brinkley has said that she is considering taking the home off the market because she hasn't had any nibbles on the 12-bedroom home.

Gallery: Christie Brinkley in North Haven

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Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge Kicks Off in the Hamptons

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Filed under: Events, Charity, Sports

The annual Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge kicked off in the Hamptons last weekend as the sport's greatest athletes competed for one of polo's most treasured prizes. The 2010 Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge at Blue Star Jets Field will run for six weeks and as always is expected to attract a great crowd of celebs and VIPs. In addition to Mercedes and Blue Star Jets this season's partners and sponsors include Patron tequila, Stella Artois, Zino Platinum Cigars, Crumbs Cupcakes and Bakery, the Financial Times, Susan Foster Jewelry and Hamptons Magazine. Those with access to the coveted VIP tent this year can preview SWAGG, an upcoming mobile application allowing consumers to purchase, exchange and redeem gift cards from their phone. Ralph Lauren returned as the exclusive apparel retailer with an onsite shop at the matches, and is also staging a contest for a polo lesson with Lauren-sponsored Black Watch team member Nacho Figueras. A portion of proceeds from this year's events will go to the South Fork Breast Cancer Coalition.

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NYC And Hamptons Hotels Partner For Ulitmate Summer Package

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

It's the question that plagues every New Yorker during the summer: to stay or not to stay? But thanks to a new partnership between The Greenwich Hotel and East Hampton Point Resort you don't have to choose.

The six night package splits your time evenly between both properties, giving you three days in the City and three out east. It begins at The Greenwich Hotel, Robert De Niro's 88-room luxury property in Manhattan's tony Tribeca neighborhood. There you'll receive a superior room, breakfast for two (daily), Champagne and fruit upon arrival, two "Shibui Toner" spa treatments, and dinner for two in the private, outdoor garden of the critically acclaimed Locanda Verde. Then it's off to the beach via a Hampton Luxury Liner, where you'll be put up in one of East Hampton Point's luxe bungalows. Breakfast comes delivered each morning, courtesy of Mary's Marvelous in Amagansett, and dinner for two awaits at the resort's restaurant. To get you through the middle of the day a picnic lunch at Georgica Beach, East Hampton's prime summer locale, has been arranged (car service to the beach, or passes for those with their own vehicles is also provided). The resort can also schedule tee times, book a private shopper or place a preferred dinner reservation. Now when you're asked if you're staying in the City or going to the Hamptons the correct response is, "yes."

(packages start at $4,600 plus tax)

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55 Dune Road, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates

Summer and thoughts drift toward the Hamptons, white sands, green grass an an expanse of deep blue ocean. David J. Wine, vice chairman of Related Companies, responsible for the Hudson Riverfront's Superior Ink, one of Manhattan's most successful downtown developments, has developed 55 Dune Road, a luxury hideaway in Bridgehampton. The first property is the first independent venture for Oliver's Company, Wine's holding company. 55 Dune Road is a modern oceanfront dream home on a .7 acre oceanfront spot. The home boasts enviable 70-degree forever-protected ocean and Mecox-Bay views.

The property includes a 3,800-square-foot main house and an 800-square-foot pool house joined by an elevated, double-infinity-edge pool with views of the ocean, Mecox Bay and surrounding dunes.The private landscaped courtyard by Edmund Hollander Design, Inc. connects the main house and the pool house. The four-bedroom main house has interiors by designer Robert Stilin. The home has rift and quarter sawn white oak with an ultra matte finish throughout, a bay view dining deck, an oceanfront deck and two wood-burning fireplaces. The kitchen has state-of-the-art Sub-Zero, Wolf and Miele appliances. The master suite entices with a master bath with a Hoesch Philippe Starck soaking tub peering straight out onto the ocean and Dornbracht fixtures. Wyeth, which specializes in museum-quality Mid-Century Modern antiques, raw industrial metal objects and rare vintage collectibles, will fully furnish the interiors of 55 Dune Road under the direction of Stilin.

The home's size is deliberate. "The average home in this price range currently on the market in the Hamptons is well over 7,000 square feet, and the average oceanfront home is over $20 million," said David J. Wine. "Who needs all that maintenance and hassle? Today, people are looking for smarter, flexible and inspiring spaces that afford the highest quality architecture, design and location. This is why we designed 55 Dune Road." Bill Williams and Dana Trotter of Sotheby's International Realty have the listing.

Gallery: 55 Dune Road

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RSVIP: Parrish Museum Honors Beth DeWoody, a Latter Day "Peggy Guggenheim"

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Unlike the legendary art patroness Peggy Guggenheim, Manhattan real estate family scion, Beth Rudin DeWoody may not have rebuilt a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice, where lions once roamed, and Jackson Pollock didn't urinate in her fireplace, but DeWoody has packed three sizable domiciles from Southamton, New York to West Palm Beach, Florida and likely a great deal of storage with the quirky highlights of contemporary art.

On July 10, DeWoody and the world famous painter Ross Bleckner were honored at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, during the annual Parrish Midsummer fete.

"She's so open-minded," said Carlton DeWoody, Beth's son, like his father, Beth's first husband Jim DeWoody, a gifted artist. "That had a big impact on me growing up."

At the entrance to DeWoody's Southampton cottage, a key site in the original Southampton Art Colony, hangs a deer trophy head in an S&M-style leather hood that zips up the side. Lift a small magnifying glass on a book, as Luxist did on a previous visit, and a tiny man magically appears as a holograph, projected in 3-D.

"Beth is my partner in crime," offered designer Richard Mishaan with gusto, "my personal Auntie Mame. She has educated me, guided me into buying some of the best pieces I have, like a Peter Dayton surfboard last week."

"She's the Peggy Guggenheim of our time," pronounced Debbie Bancroft, chair of the tony Southampton society benefit, sporting a dress made with python skins for Calypso. "Everyone loves Beth and Ross . . . and there is nothing like having beloved honorees."

"She is the most welcoming person, with the most eclectic taste in friends, art, and furniture," added artful party photographer Patrick McMullan.

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RSVIP: How Green Was My Gala

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Filed under: Events, Green

Is your gala farm-to-table sustainable? According to event co-chair and designer Nicole Miller, a party doesn't get any more crunchy-granola than Group for the East End's Green Gala on Saturday, June 19. In fact, Miller, donated bags of just that . . . granola. "I contributed BOLA Granola to the goodie bag," she said. "It's made in the Berkshires by my sister [Michelle Miller] and is sold at Cavaniola's [Sag Harbor]." In Manhattan, BOLA Granola is also available at Dean & DeLuca and Whole Foods.

But granola in the gift bag and a local farm-fresh menu didn't mean that guests wore Birkenstocks. In fact, Miller had opalescent strips on her not exactly homespun dress. "I was so happy," said the designer, "because they go with my necklace by Jacqui Toboroff that I have never had a chance to wear."

The Green Gala took place at the Wolffer Estate, a sprawling vineyard in Sagaponack, New York . . . Hamptons heartland. Amidst aligned rows of grapevines, a Wolffer Estate tasting center abuts Route 27. Turning west, past an Italianate villa structure, some 400 guests, including James Lipton of "The Actors Studio," drove across flaxen fields where they parked their Mercedes SUVs, and hopefully a few hybrid vehicles.

The local farm-fresh menu served in a breezy tent included gravlax and organic beets on baby lettuce from Early Girl Farm (the Moriches). A Wolffer verjus beurre blanc accompanied the sea bass, as well as a salad of vegetables from Cutchogue's Satur Farms. Chef Brian Fishman of Sweet Karma whipped up a local goat-cheese cake marinated in Wolffer's late harvest Chardonnay. "It was the best food I have ever had at an event . . . ever," said Miller.

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$72 Million In The Hamptons, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates

Another mega-expensive property has hit the market in New York. A prime waterfront 18.4-acre family compound and equestrian facility in Wainscott has come on the market for $72 million listed with Sotheby's International Realty. What do you get for your money? This Hamptons sprawl consists of four parcels that have been in the same family for three centuries. There are three homes, multiple barns and a vacant building parcel. Newsday's Real LI column reveals that one 2.7-acre parcel has a five-bedroom house with a pool and 432 feet of frontage on Wainscott Pond with views of the ocean. That house was built in the 1920s but was recently updated. On the largest parcel, 11.7 acres, there is a house built in the 1600s with a working horse farm as well as several barn buildings and paddocks, 200 feet of pond frontage and more ocean views. The smallest chunks are a pair of 1.9-acre lots, one with a greenhouse and a cottage and the other only has horse paddocks. A house can be built on each of the parcels.

Gallery: $72 Million in Wainscott

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New Swedish-Designed Hotel Helps Stuffy East Hampton Get Hip

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Filed under: Decor, Dining, Luxury Travel & Hotels

Maybe it's because if you truly are somebody, you'd already own a house in the Hamptons, or plan to rent one for the season, or certainly at least know someone with a guest room. No matter the reason, it's a fact that there's a dearth of hip hotel options on the east end of Long Island. Weekend visitors to the Hamptons can choose from glorified motels or stodgy historic inns (both of which will snare you with a three-night minimum at top rates). Until now.

Swedish hotelier Jenny Ljungberg of c/o Hotels took over the East Hampton landmark the Maidstone Arms in 2008 and renamed it c/o The Maidstone. She first reworked the restaurant with a slow-food focus, something she pioneered at her five other properties in and around Stockholm. The Maidstone's restaurant, The Living Room, opened to positive reviews and a packed reservations list last Summer. After further renovation to the rooms during the off season, the hotel is now fully operating with 19 guest rooms, each decorated as a subtle homage to a famous Scandinavian.

Gallery: c/o The Maidstone

The exterior of East Hampton's c/o The Maidstone, formerly The Maidstone Arms

Grilled Wagyu flank steak served with organic shitake mushrooms, spring ramps, seasonal asparagus, tomato aioli with a port wine

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RSVIP: Warhol Lives Through New Photo Exhibit

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Filed under: Events, Art

Andy Warhol and his arty, edgy world rises like a phoenix in a comprehensive exhibit of vintage photographs which opened on Saturday, June 5, at the Eric Firestone Gallery, 4 Newtown Lane in East Hampton, New York. Entitled "Warhol: Dylan to Duchamp," the gallery's inaugural exhibit features images that stretch from Warhol's Silver Factory days, to the set of his film "Lonesome Cowboys," to the VIP lounge at Studio 54.

By the front window of the gallery, two monitors display screen tests filmed by Warhol, one starring a youthful Bob Dylan and the other, an ancient Marcel Duchamp. In an endless tight headshot, Duchamp wears a checkered shirt, and his white hair is pushed back. The father of Dada sips from a glass, and his eyes dart to the side uncomfortably as the unceasing lens takes in every wrinkle.

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Georgica Grandeur, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates

If you don't like prints today's sweetly traditional home in the Hamptons probably isn't for you. This older three-story estate is wreathed in a wealth of toile and chintz, from the curtains to the walls for an effect that lies somewhere between grand and granny. I don't know who did the interior design but it reminds me of much of Mario Buatta's work. The home has seven bedrooms, cook's kitchen, formal dining room. It opens with a light airy space, a large foyer that leads to a double-height living room with a wall of windows that let in sunlight. The over one acre property includes a pool and pool house. This home is listed at $7.9 million.

Gallery: Georgica Grandeur

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Kevin Sorbo Would Like To Sell You A House Or Two

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping, Celebrity Design

Last week Newsday reported that actor Kevin Sorbo had sold one of his Hamptons homes. The actor best known for playing Hercules has two more homes up for sale in Bridgehampton, New York. Sorbo has been at work in the Hamptons for years, buying homes and properties and selling them for a profit. The two remaining homes up for sale include a 12,000 square foot eight bedroom house on six acres. The estate is designed for summer fun with a tennis court, pool house and a finished lower level with a spa, sauna, massage room, extensive gym, extra bedrooms and bath and built-in humidor. The home has a large master suite with a private deck. It is listed at $7.995 million.

The other home a smaller seven-bedroom is a little less than 8,000 square feet but is located a block away from the ocean. The home has a master suite with a sitting room, gourmet kitchen and a movie theater. Outside there is a heated gunite pool. This one is listed at $9.5 million.

Both of the homes for sale are decorated in classic Hamptons style, a sort of studied beachy casual. All three homes are listed with the Breitenbachs of The Corcoran Group.

Gallery: 2 Winding Way

Gallery: Ocean Road

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The Lauren Berger Collection for Luxe Properties & Luxury Cars

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Luxury Cars & Autos

The Lauren Berger Collection of luxury vacation residences caters to discerning travelers who want more space and privacy than even the best hotels can offer, along with a laundry list of princely perks. LBC's eight properties include three stylish apartments in Manhattan, two of which are in the prestigious Jumeirah Essex House; two luxe residences in the Hamptons; retreats in Greenwich, Conn. and New Rochelle on the magnificent Long Island Sound; and an Eastchester townhouse with private lake access. Available amenities include a chauffeur driven Rolls-Royce Phantom or Mercedes-Benz SL550, a private 48-ft. motor yacht and crew, an in-house chef and sommelier, a personal shopper, and a bodyguard. Lauren Berger Collection clients also have access to the fleet of stylish wheels at the Classic Car Club Manhattan, which range from a 1965 Shelby Cobra to a Ferrari F430 and Bentley GTC.

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