LIFESTYLE

Strong Connection to NYC & The Hamptons Lure Buyers to South Florida

By HRES Staff
August 22, 2016

Florida! Palm Beach, Miami, Jupiter Island, Coconut Grove: to this day, a whiff of glamour clings to those names. And for winter-weary New Yorkers, Florida is a perennially popular spot for a vacation or permanent home...

Equestrian Artists You Need to Know

By HRES Staff
August 22, 2016

After a career on Wall Street, Robert Hooke moved to London where he opened his own financial firm. While banking was always his primary career, art was his secondary. Even while still in New York he had been mentored by sculptor...

For The Carriage Trade

By HRES Staff
August 22, 2016

They might have been built to house horses and the fancy barouches and cabriolets drawn by teams of steeds. But these days – with their high-pitched roofs, loft-like interiors and historic provenance – carriage houses make desirable...

Beach Bodies

By HRES Staff
July 21, 2016

There are a lot of toned bodies sashaying around the Hamptons: women sporting shoulder-baring tops and men in shorts showing off shapely legs. With all the workout options it’s no wonder we’re all in such good shape. There are tried...

Style of Surf

By Kelli Delaney
July 21, 2016

For die-hard Ditch Plains wave riders, surfing style rolls into the home as well.

Whither Montauk

By HRES Staff
June 27, 2016

Montauk has changed rapidly in the past few years. While the Montauk from my childhood in the 1970s didn’t look much different than it does now--I remember buying candy in White’s with my allowance, chasing my brothers and sisters around the tiny IGA, swimming at Ditch Plains—the atmosphere is much changed, even from the early 2000s.

Montauk Salt Cave

By HRES Staff
June 27, 2016

Fortunately my sinuses were not clogged, but I felt them clear anyway as I breathed in the mineral-saturated air at the Montauk Salt Cave. Known for their health benefits, salt chambers are popping up all over the country. And “if it’s ‘groovy,’ it ends up in Montauk,” says realtor Lois Moore in Corcoran’s Montauk office.

Remembering Rusty Drumm

By Ruth Thomas
June 27, 2016

Montauk will not be the same without Russell “Rusty” Drumm, legendary surfer, fisherman, writer, and co-founder of The Oceans Institute of the Montauk Lighthouse Museum, aka The Montauk Surf Museum, that just opened last summer. Born in Syracuse, NY on February 8, 1947, raised in Levittown, Long Island, Rusty passed away on January 16, 2016 at the age of 68.

Million Dollar Trailer Park

By Grace Alexander
June 27, 2016

Amobile home park in the tony Hamptons? You betcha. Sometimes called “the million-dollar trailer park,” the 20-acre community has got arguably the best views on the entire East End. And access to Ditch Plain beach, a surfing mecca. Which is why several hip billionaires have pitched tent, I mean, trailer there.

Artists You Need To Know

By HRES Staff
June 27, 2016

Former commercial artist Dalton Portella now earns his living as a fine artist, photographer, and sometime musician. After a successful career in advertising, the last decade creating movie posters for Miramax Films –from Pulp Fiction to Aviator – he moved to Montauk to “forsake the almighty dollar to concentrate on fine art.”