The Hamptons. Few places in the country — or for that matter, the world — carry the cachet of those two indelible words. To be in the Hamptons during the “season” (i.e., the summer) is to inhabit the same Long Island strip of coastal land as the boldest of the boldfaced names: celebrities, famed athletes, CEOs and billionaires of all stripes. (Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost, Jennifer Lopez and Anderson Cooper all own prime properties.)
Off-season, most of them return to Manhattan, California or Palm Beach. But there has long been a thriving year-round community of everyone from artists and shop owners to fishermen (and the accompanying social tensions between the permanent residents and “the summer people”).
