Posts with tag great gatsby

'Project Runway' Winner Hawks Miami Beach Condos

Recognize this Project Runway designer? If you do, maybe you want to live where she lives. Every now and then, a new condominium complex needs a marketing boost around the time it first opens its doors. What better way to draw attention than by saying a celebrity (or semi-celebrity) moved in? Sometimes these moves are... Continue Reading »

'Great Gatsby' Mansion on Long Island Demolished

The Great Gatsby's author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, once wrote, "There are no second acts in American lives." In the case of the Sands Point, N.Y., mansion said to have inspired the classic American novel, the Fitzgerald adage seems to have been accurate -- but that second act came to end on Monday, when the so-called Land's... Continue Reading »

'Great Gatsby' Mansion in Its Original Grandeur

The Great Gatsby is not only one of the 20th century's great novels -- it's also one of the great real estate reads. Recently, Land's End, the grand Long Island, N.Y., estate that moved F. Scott Fitzgerald to create the fictional town of East Egg in Gatsby fell into serious disrepair. Sarah Firshein at Curbed.com has the... Continue Reading »

Long Island Mansions on Sale: Live Like Gatsby

Attention Gatsby wannabes: If you always hankered after a waterfront mansion or storied estate home on Long Island's glitzy North Shore -- the Gold Coast that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" -- it might be time to buy. A growing number of mega-size homes, in neighborhoods famous for their seclusion,... Continue Reading »

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