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sort areas outside of Newport where truly fabulous rental accommodations can be found. For $60 ,000, from Memorial to Labor Day , you can be master or mistress of a house with more than 10 bedroom suites, tennis court, pool, Jacuzzi, gym, and servants' quarters, according to Eva Stern of Sea Realty. (The rental may not include utilities .) Easthampton is considered very artsy and elite, though the old money is dying out. It was once a community restricted to WASPs but is no longer. Perhaps because of its attraction for New York artists, Easthampton also features the state of the art in beach house architecture, particularly as recently available federal flood insurance has opened up new coastal lowlands for building. Easthampton can be less expensive than Southampton because the farther out on Long Island (and away from New York City) you travel, supposedly the less desirable the location. Plan to budget $20,000 for the season for a median rental, although a good time can be had for $7 ,000 to $12 ,000 , again, if properties are available. Closer to Manhattan, but isolated
just the same, is Fire Island, which can only be reached by ferry in the summer. Fire Island has no roads , but lots of sidewalks to bicycle on. It's primarily a summer place; in the winter a mere 1,500 live there, in the summer the population swells to 30 ,000 . Rentals are limited and fairly expensive. There aren't any lavish estates, but plenty of cedar-shingled bungalows on the beach. The three most exclusive areas are Salt Air, Sea View and Point of Woods . One Fire Island homeowner who wishes to remain anonymous purchased his four-bedroom house in Ocean Beach, the center of activity on the island, for $17,000 in 1962. He now rents it out for $13,000 a season (May 15 through Oct. 1). Rentals can approach the mid-20s.
CAPE COD Compared to Southampton, the most exclusive rentals on Cape Cod are a steal. Wianno , in the village of Osterville, and its even more exclusive neighbor, Oyster Harbors, offer a few fabulous oceanside homes for $25 ,000 for the season, according to a realtor who lives in that community. Bill Agee and Mary Cunningham
recently paid $1.9 million for. thet~ hideaway in Oyster Harbors, stte o the Dupont family's estate . The guard at the entrance to Oyster Harbors alsO screens visitors to Gen. James Gavin, and the Joe Lilly family . At Oyster Harbors, an oceanfront estate, not terribly elaborate, but turn· of-the-century with eight bedrooms. occasionally can be rented for $15 ,000 -If you have a longstanding relati~n· ship with the landlord. Othervllse $25,000 is more the rule for a bous.e of equal size fronting on the Saputt River. Nearby Wianno offers swimming o~ Nantucket Sound, where the Gul Stream provides water temperatur~s unheard of north of the Carolinas-tO the 70s in August. An oceanside beach house , again for $25 ,000 for the sea· son, on exclusive Seaview Avenue probably would be unchanged iO decor over the last 40 years, providing a touch of old-time fantasy or nostal· gia, depending on your perspective· Beaches in the area are restricted tO residents. But Massachusetts law as· sures that all beaches are accessible tO the public for purposes of fisbifiSi ) hunting of fowl, or navigation-fee please turn to page 12°
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(518) 668-4400 (518) 523-2519 (518) 584-0900
BERKS HIRES
Coldwell Banker/Isgood Realty
Jeff Bolza
(413) 443-4416
CAPE COD
Craigville Realty
Martin Traywick
(617) 775-3174
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Reber Realty Barbanti Realty
Frederick Reber Gene Barbanti
(914) 557-8600 (914) 292-6781
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Debbie Alter
(516) 583-7790
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Sea Realty
Eva Stern
(516) 283-4343
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Norman E. Merrow Barbara Kent Train
Spinnaker Real Estate
(401) 635-2300
Barbara Nevin Real Estate Tea Lane Associates Harborside Realty
(617) 627-404 1 (617) 645-9882 (617) 627-4345
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J . Pepper Frazer Realty
Pepper Frazer
(617) 228-3202
NEWPORT, R.I.
Private Properties Chartier Real Estate
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(401) 847-1031
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