The houses, clubs, polo, benefits, and summer rituals that define the maximum-luxury Hamptons.
A private atlas in ten chapters.
88 places, rituals, and institutions—each grounded in public reporting, with no invented access.
Observational, not promotional. Named residents appear only when publicly reported by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Curbed, The Real Deal, Newsday, 27 East, James Lane Post, or Hamptons Magazine. Nothing here is invented.
Read it as social geography: what is public, what is private, and which institutions made the East End’s mythology.
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The named lanes that the national real-estate press has tracked for three decades — the oceanfront spits, the Sagaponack potato-field drives, the Georgica hook. These cards carry no photograph: a lane is a public road, and we would rather show nothing than the wrong one.
The narrow oceanfront spit running south-west from Southampton Village between Shinnecock Bay and the Atlantic, past Lake Agawam. Tagged in OpenStreetMap as a 25 mph tertiary road; the Village heliport and the former La Dune compound both sit on it.
Runs parallel to the Atlantic between Lake Agawam and Halsey Neck, a 25 mph tertiary road in Southampton Village. Gilded Age cottages and hedgerows line it, and the Bathing Corporation of Southampton is at number 14.
A potato-field lane running east from the Maidstone Club through East Hampton Village into Amagansett. OpenStreetMap classes it a secondary road at 25 mph — unusually high status for a residential lane, because it is the inland alternative to the ocean road.
Runs south to Old Town Beach through one of Southampton Village's oldest estate corridors. The only road in this section posted at 30 mph rather than 25.
Connects Hill Street to the ocean between Gin Lane ℹ and Coopers Neck. Hedges, gates and Gilded Age estates the full length; OpenStreetMap tags the ocean end as a service road, not a through route.
Sagaponack oceanfront, inside Sagaponack Village. Asphalt, 25 mph, residential its whole length. Google spells it Daniel's Lane; the Village and OpenStreetMap both drop the apostrophe.
Leads to Two Mile Hollow Beach between Further Lane ℹ and the Atlantic, inside East Hampton Village. Modernist houses and older Shingle Style ℹ compounds sit back behind privet.
Hooks around Georgica Pond toward the ocean through the Georgica section of East Hampton Village. Grey Gardens is number 3, mapped as its own building in OpenStreetMap.
Estates that have made architectural or sale-price news in NYT, WSJ Mansion, Curbed, or The Real Deal. Exteriors only; interiors stay private. No photographs either — the site does not publish pictures of private homes.
A gated 25-acre estate on a peninsula reaching into Georgica Pond, with 2,024 feet of pond frontage — waterfront, but not oceanfront. The 18,000-square-foot gambrel house was completed in 1999 to a Francis Fleetwood design, originally for the commodities trader David Campbell. The Stewart J. Rahr Foundation sold it in April 2021 for $47 million, after asking $95 million in 2015 — the priciest non-ocean waterfront trade the Hamptons has recorded.
Two oceanfront residences on four acres of Gin Lane ℹ, with 400 feet of bulkheaded shoreline. The shingled main house dates to 1892, is said to have links to Stanford White, and appeared in Woody Allen's 1978 film “Interiors”; the second house is a 2001 François Catroux design. Sold at a Sotheby's auction in January 2024 for $88.48 million out of the bankruptcy of its owner, the publisher Louise Blouin — the most valuable property ever auctioned live at Sotheby's.
Six cottages arranged in a half-circle above the Montauk moorlands, built in the 1930s as a fishing and duck-hunting retreat for the Church family of Arm & Hammer. Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey bought the compound in 1971 for about $225,000; Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Rolling Stones all stayed there. Mickey Drexler paid $27 million for the remaining 5.6 acres in 2007 and sold to the gallerist Adam Lindemann for $50 million in December 2015.
The 1897 shingle-style house on West End Road, designed by Joseph Greenleaf Thorp and named for the grey stone walls of its garden rooms. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Little Edie lived here through the decline the Maysles brothers filmed in 1975; Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn bought it in 1979 for $220,000 and restored it. The designer Liz Lange rented in 2015, bought from Quinn in 2017, and undertook a three-year restoration.
A 57-acre Georgica Pond estate, the Mediterranean villa built in 1899 for the artist Albert Herter by Grosvenor Atterbury, who also designed the old Parrish Art Museum. Later home to the artist Alfonso Ossorio and Ted Dragon, and a haunt of Pollock, Krasner and Rothko. Ronald Perelman bought it from Dragon in 1993 for $12.5 million and has since spent years before East Hampton Village boards seeking to legalise buildings raised without permits.
The Bulova Watchcase Factory in Sag Harbor Village, redeveloped by Cape Advisors into condominiums and townhouses. 27 East published the first public price ranges in December 2012: one-bedrooms from $710,000, three-bedrooms to $10.2 million, townhouses $3.5 to $6.5 million.
The residential lane running down to the Maidstone Club's beach in East Hampton Village. The club holds premises licences at 50 Old Beach Lane and at the foot of the lane, at 50 West Dune Lane.
Joe Farrell's 11.5-acre Bridgehampton spread: a 17,000-square-foot main house on a 2.9-acre parcel with the balance in agricultural reserve, and — despite the name — no waterfront. Bowling alley, skateboard half-pipe, squash court and a 10-seat theatre. It has hosted Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Justin Bieber, and a 2019 Trump re-election fundraiser. Farrell bought the land from Ahmet Ertegun's family in 2007 and sold the house for $31 million in November 2021.
The Sagaponack compound Ira Rennert built on Daniels Lane, reported at 55,000 square feet — among the largest private residences in the country. Its 2008 tax bill alone came to $420,528 — more than any of the East Hampton properties in the same survey, Gurney's and Gardiners Island included.
The Georgica Pond estate Christopher Whittle assembled across 90 and 100 South Briar Patch Road, listed in 2014 for $140 million — still one of the most ambitious asks the Hamptons has seen. The larger 7.5-acre lot holds the Shepard Krech House, a circa-1931 Colonial Revival by Arthur C. Jackson renovated in 1990 by Peter Marino. After foreclosure and two cancelled auctions, 90 South Briar Patch Road transferred for $64.7 million in 2024.
Known as Fordune: 42 oceanfront acres built in 1960 for Henry Ford II and Anne McDonnell, who kept it after their divorce four years later. Once more than 200 acres, it now runs to a 20,000-square-foot manor, a carriage house, ponds, a six-car garage, and tennis and basketball courts. Sold for $105 million in August 2021.
Golf, tennis, beach, and yacht clubs with Gilded Age founding dates. Membership at each is by invitation; Hamptons Verified does not facilitate access.
Private club on Old Beach Lane with its own clubhouse and golf shop. The club publishes nothing beyond an address and a member login — there is no public membership process and no visitor information.
Charles Blair Macdonald's 1908 course, built with Southampton engineer Seth Raynor and modelled on holes Macdonald studied in Scotland and England — the Road Hole and Eden from St Andrews, Alps from Prestwick, Redan from North Berwick, Sahara from Sandwich. A private 18 holes over 253 acres on Peconic Bay.
Jack Nicklaus and Tom Doak co-designed course on 300 acres in Southampton, between National Golf Links and Shinnecock Hills. Golf Digest called it America's Best New Course in January 2008 and it entered the 100 Greatest at No. 39; the club's own press room carries the run-up coverage to the 2013 US Open it hosted.
Private Southampton course off County Road 39. Clubhouse (631) 283-0623, pro shop (631) 283-4854. No public tee times; guest play is by member invitation.
Private beach club at 14 Gin Lane ℹ, (631) 283-0545, mailing address P.O. Box 1311 Southampton. The public site is a member sign-in and a hiring form — it was recruiting food service, beverage, bathhouse, lifeguard and kids-activities staff for the 2026 season when this was checked. Nothing else about the club is published.
Private, member-owned yacht club on Gardiner's Bay at 300 Abraham's Landing Road. Founded as the Gardiner's Bay Boat Club in 1908 and incorporated as the Devon Yacht Club on 8 November 1916 on land from the Gardiner's Bay Company. Its charter covers yachting, seamanship and navigation — and tennis. Guests of members are welcome at many events and dinners.
Private yacht club at 27 Bay Street inside Sag Harbor's inner harbor. It does publish transient dockage for visiting vessels — arrange it through the dock staff on (631) 725-0567.
Community sailing club and sailing center at 51 Bay Street, Sag Harbor, running junior and adult sailing programs out of the inner harbor. Sailing office (631) 725-4604, VHF channel 9.
Private grass-court tennis club at 555 First Neck Lane, (631) 283-0425. Its own site is member-gated: court reservations, tennis calendar and tournaments, interclub ladies' tennis, pickleball, dining and a junior programme. Founding year is not published by the club.
Defunct. Summer Sunday polo matches at Two Trees Farm hosted by the Rubenstein family, long covered as the social center of summer Bridgehampton by NYT, Page Six and Hamptons Magazine. The club is gone: its domain now redirects to WVVH-TV and it appears nowhere in the USPA club registry. Active East End ℹ polo moved to Hamptons Polo Club in Water Mill.
Two Trees Farm, Hayground Road, Bridgehampton, NY 11932
Weeklong hunter/jumper ℹ show, August 23-30, 2026, culminating in the $400,000 Longines Hampton Classic ℹ Grand Prix. One of the largest outdoor horse shows in the United States, with 200+ classes and roughly 1,400 horses. Admission is $25 per carload for parking.
Mercedes-Benz title-sponsored polo tournament played at Two Trees Farm in Bridgehampton. 27 East covered the 2009 final, when Great Oaks beat White Birch 13-12 on August 11. The Bridgehampton Polo Club that hosted it is defunct, so this is a historical entry only.
Private Rubenstein family polo and equestrian grounds on Hayground Road. It hosted Bridgehampton Polo Club matches each summer until the club wound down - the club's domain now redirects to WVVH-TV and it is absent from the USPA club registry - so there is no longer a public polo fixture here.
Closing Sunday of the Hampton Classic ℹ - August 30, 2026 - with a $70,000 2* Grand Prix at 10:30am and the $400,000 Longines Hampton Classic Grand Prix at 2pm. The title sponsor is Longines; the FTI Consulting era is over, and the purse is $400,000, not the $350,000 this entry used to claim.
The Classic's hospitality, renamed: the Judge's Box Lounge is now the Classic Club, sold per person per day Thursday through Sunday at $200-$600 including food and soft drinks, with a cash bar. Sponsor VIP tables run alongside it and submit daily guest lists to the show office.
The Classic's free days are not opening day. The show opens Sunday, August 23, 2026; general admission is free on Monday, August 24 - which is also Animal Adoption Day - and Tuesday through Thursday admission is free for seniors, veterans and serving military, or for anyone bringing three or more non-perishable items for the Sag Harbor Food Pantry.
Defunct. The weekly late-July-to-mid-August Sunday match ended with the Bridgehampton Polo Club, whose domain 301-redirects to WVVH-TV and which does not appear in the USPA club registry. The nearest USPA member club is The Hamptons Polo Club in Water Mill; there is no Bridgehampton Sunday fixture and no official site to buy tickets from.
Renamed and moved: the Classic's children's day is Kids' Day in the Kids' Tent, Saturday, August 29, 2026 - a Saturday, not the midweek slot this entry used to give it. Daily activities run in the kids' area all week.
Guild Hall's annual benefit evening on Main Street. The 2026 Summer Gala, honoring Andrea Grover, is Friday 7 August, 6-11pm; tickets are sold through Guild Hall.
Postwar and contemporary gallery at 4 Newtown Lane, open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm and Sun 10am-5pm. It is one of five Firestone spaces - two on Great Jones Street in Manhattan, one in West Palm Beach, and a second East Hampton room, The Garage at 62 Newtown Lane, which is by appointment only.
Contemporary gallery at 79a Newtown Lane, open Tuesday to Sunday 11am-6pm and by appointment. (631) 604-5770. A Greenpoint space runs by appointment only.
Tripoli Patterson's gallery at 26 Ardsley Road in Wainscott, expanded from its original Southampton Village room. The site renders entirely in JavaScript; Google holds the gallery as operational at that address on (631) 377-3715.
Contemporary gallery now on the second floor at 55 Main Street, having left Newtown Lane. Summer hours are Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday 11am-5pm, Sunday 11am-4pm. (631) 324-5016.
Rare-book and archive dealer in culturally significant 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century material. The East Hampton project space on Newtown Lane that put it on this list is no longer listed by the business: its own contact page gives one address, 227 East 58th Street in Manhattan, by appointment only.
227 East 58th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10022
Live benefit auction attached to the Parrish Art Museum's Midsummer Gala at 279 Montauk Highway - Rachael White Young of Christie's took the 2026 sale on July 18. The museum advertises no silent auction alongside it.
Wood-oven Italian at North Main and Cedar, established 1988. Seasonal, locally sourced menu; open every day from 5.30pm, indoors, outdoors and for takeout.
Coastal Mediterranean restaurant at the EHP Resort & Marina, overlooking Three Mile Harbor — Italian, Greek, Spanish and Moroccan dishes, and a dock for guests arriving by boat. It is EHP's own restaurant, not an Amagansett address and not a Calissa sibling.
295 Three Mile Harbor Hog Creek Road, East Hampton, NY 11937
Greek Mediterranean restaurant at 1020 Montauk Highway in Water Mill, Cycladic in styling, with live music and a late bar. (631) 500-9292. The restaurant publishes no opening hours on its own site.
Sag Harbor landmark hotel and restaurant, named in 1876 and run by Ted Conklin since 1972. Its wine list took a Wine Spectator Grand Award in 1981. Dining room 8am-10pm year-round; (631) 725-3535.
Reimagined 19th-century mansion and estate at the Bridgehampton crossroads, billing itself as the only full-service luxury hotel in the Hamptons. Its restaurant is Jean-Georges, open year-round.
1 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, NY 11932
Main Street boutique hotel in East Hampton's historic district ℹ, reopened in summer 2024 under LDV Hospitality — the long-running Scandinavian styling is gone, replaced by an Italian one. Open year-round.
The mid-century Baron’s Cove closed on 1 October for renovation and reopened as Faraway Sag Harbor. Its restaurant is Zagara, an Amalfi-inspired room from chef Jarad McCarroll looking out over the harbour. Neither the hotel nor Zagara publishes opening hours.
Ninety-six-room oceanfront hotel at 21 Oceanview Terrace, with beachfront, oceanview, dune and courtyard rooms set into the dunes above the Atlantic at the Ditch Plains end of Montauk. (631) 668-2050.
Fort Pond bayfront hotel, restaurant and live-music venue on Edgemere Street. Seasonal — Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day — with a summer-long concert series.
Twenty-nine-room boutique hotel on County Road 39A, converted from a Southampton motor inn, with a pool area called The Bathing Club. The restaurant Maison Close is announced for summer 2026.
Seven-room inn and restaurant on East Hampton's Main Street, with a main dining room, a tavern and al fresco seating under chef Michael Rozzi. (631) 324-1770.
Two Montauk properties under one operator: Solé East Resort on Second House Road (61 beach bungalow-style rooms plus eight garden cabana suites) and the 26-room Solé East Beach. (631) 668-2105.
Gated twelve-room destination retreat and spa on five acres in Water Mill, three miles from the ocean, programming yoga, meditation, hydrotherapy and nutrition. Guest services (631) 500-9049.
Helicopter and seaplane shuttle brand running Manhattan to East Hampton flights each summer. Ownership changed in August 2025: Blade ℹ Air Mobility sold its passenger division to Joby Aviation and renamed itself Strata Critical Medical (ticker SRTA from BLDE). Joby's own site links to blade.com under Fly Blade. Airport status still varies with East Hampton Town rules. Google lists no Blade location on the East End ℹ; all three BLADE lounges it holds are in Manhattan.
Charter operator of jets, turboprops and seaplanes in the northeast, with an East Hampton Airport presence. Its own site is a placeholder that points charter enquiries at chartersales@flytailwind.com and gives a Port Chester head office; it advertises no scheduled Manhattan–East Hampton seaplane route.
Town-owned general aviation airport in Wainscott, open 365 days a year bar major holidays. The tower runs 8am-8pm May to September, making it Class D airspace in season and uncontrolled Class G the rest of the year.
A municipal heliport run by Southampton Village at 2075 Meadow Lane ℹ, FAA identifier 87N. Pilots and aviation vendors register through Vector Airport Services. Landing hours are seasonal — 8 AM to 7 PM from May 1 to September 15, shorter either side of that — and it is closed at night.
County of Suffolk-owned airport three miles north of Westhampton Beach, open since June 1943. Customs landing rights facility with a tower staffed in daylight hours. Airport office (631) 852-8095.
151 Old Riverhead Road, Westhampton Beach, NY 11978
Single-runway airport at the head of Lake Montauk, conceived by Perry Duryea Jr. in 1957 on 27 acres he secured for it. Attended May to October, 0800 to sunset. Unicom 122.70; landing and parking fees via FlightBridge. (631) 668-3738.
Blade ℹ's passenger lounge at East Hampton Airport. The Blade passenger business was sold to Joby Aviation in August 2025, when the listed parent renamed itself Strata Critical Medical; the lounge's current season and hours are not published by either company.
Fractional jet operator whose aircraft use East Hampton Airport. East Hampton Airport Director Jemille Charlton named Net Jets and Wheels Up to 27 East in 2015 as the corporations flying the leased luxury jets that proposed noise restrictions would limit. Neither the town nor the operator publishes current traffic figures.
Village transient dockage. Long Wharf takes vessels of 100ft and larger (Dockwa lists it to 175ft), paid in full on confirmation and non-refundable. Boating season runs 1 April to 31 October; reservations open 1 January via Dockwa. Harbormaster Robert Bori, (631) 725-2368.
Full-service marina on Star Island, now operated as Safe Harbor Montauk Yacht Club and billed as the Hamptons' largest. Takes everything from day boats to 300ft superyachts; the sixteen-acre resort around it has 106 rooms, three pools and a spa.
In Hamptons real-estate coverage, a compound generally means one property organized around several freestanding buildings — typically a main residence plus guest or service structures. It describes the estate's layout, not a public attraction. These are private residences; Hamptons Verified does not publish access guidance or details that could compromise residents' privacy.
Late-August week culminating in Grand Prix Sunday. The Classic runs August 23-30, 2026 at 240 Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton; Sunday's feature is the $400,000 Longines Hampton Classic ℹ Grand Prix, preceded by a $70,000 2* Grand Prix. See the polo section for the full slate.
Defunct. Sunday matches ran late July through mid-August at Two Trees Farm until the Bridgehampton Polo Club wound down: its domain now 301-redirects to WVVH-TV and it appears nowhere in the USPA's club registry, whose only East End ℹ member club is The Hamptons Polo Club in Water Mill. Nothing has replaced the Bridgehampton Sunday fixture.
Late-July benefit for The Watermill Center, 39 Water Mill Towd Road, founded by Robert Wilson, who remains its artistic director. The most recent edition the Center publishes is Saturday, July 26, 2025, honouring Isabella Rossellini and Francis Kere; no 2026 date is posted yet.
July benefit for the Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway. Renamed: it ran as Midsummer Dance and Midsummer Dinner through 2024 and has been the Midsummer Gala since 2025. The 2026 edition was July 18 - cocktail hour $75, dinner $275, Afterglow party $150.
August benefit for the East Hampton Library, billed as one of the nation's leading literary celebrations. The 2026 edition is Saturday, August 8 at 5pm in Herrick Park in East Hampton Village - not the Gardiner farm tent of earlier years. Ticketed.
Summer benefit for the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, whose adoption centre is at 124 Daniels Hole Road, East Hampton. The 2026 ball is Saturday, August 15, 6:30-10:30pm, in the garden tent and then ARF’s William P. Rayner Training Center, honouring Lisa McCarthy with the Champion of Animals award.
Annual fundraiser for Sag Harbor Cinema, the 501(c)(3) operator of the restored theatre at 90 Main Street - cocktails above the beach, live music, silent and live auctions of work by artists including Eric Fischl and David Salle, and a closing bonfire. The cinema does not publish the date or the honoree of the current year’s benefit on its own site.