Time and Brick: The Sag Harbor Watchcase Factory
The Bulova Watchcase Factory in Sag Harbor operated for nearly a century. By 2014, it was 64 luxury condos. What happens when industrial memory meets Hamptons money?
The Gilded Age Opulence of Oheka Castle: Financier Otto Kahn’s Extravagant 1910s Huntington Estate, an Architectural Marvel That Came to Define the Grandeur of the Roaring Twenties
Long before the Hamptons became synonymous with East Coast wealth, before the word ‘estate’ conjured…
The Tower at the Edge of the World: Camp Hero’s Radar Monolith and the Myth It Made
Sixty miles east of where the island narrows and the Hamptons begin their slow surrender…
Bleeding at Eighteen Percent
In October 1981, the average US mortgage rate hit 18.63 percent. People still bought houses. They swallowed the rate, worked the second job, and signed the paper.
The Manufactured Quaintness of Stony Brook
Stony Brook Village looks like colonial history. It’s not. It’s a 1940s retail concept built by a shoe magnate who reshaped a working-class town to fit his vision of what a village should look like.
Carving Up the Gold Coast
The robber barons built castles on Long Island’s North Shore. Then the taxman arrived. The story of how legendary estates became quarter-acre lots.
