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At the Art of It All The epic renovation of the Bruce Museum

Extraordinary Character House on Exceptional Mid Country Lane Level, open lawns sur round this beautiful house with immense character, superb decorating and sublime condition with a tr uly special feeling unlike any other in Greenwich, plus a sparking pool in the romantic garden

andsome gates on stone pillars open into the lovely driveway wandering through the orchard to a large circle. A wide flagstone walk leads to the front portico, which shelters the front door with generous sidelights opening into the front-to-back center hall with a stone floor and a door to the garden. The glorious twostory living room with a beamed, wooden ceiling has a magnificent stone fi replace, a tall, arched window in the gable wall and south facing french doors with romantic climbing roses which begin the delightful feeling of the garden. The memorable random width floors are antique wide board and there is beautiful cabinetry with a wet bar, an aperitif bar plus stairs up to the fabulous library balcony with built-in cabinetry and access to the master suite. The new dining room has a wall of south facing french doors opening to a garden courtyard, and the state-of-the-art kitchen is spectacular with white cabinetry, honed soapstone counter tops and top-of-the-line equipment in every way. The adjoining sitting area has a desk area, a welcoming fi replace, plus there is a large

breakfast room. The family room is delightful with a beamed ceiling, a fi replace, a wall of bookcases and three exposures, plus there is a powder room and a laundry, and hall access to the generous garage. The main floor bedroom and bathroom are in a private wing. A wide stairway leads to the second floor with its marvelous master suite with a beamed, cathedral ceiling and a charming octagonal window in the gable, a superb bathroom with a luxurious tub and a separate shower, plus a large dressing room, amazing closets and access to the library balcony over the living room. Each of the other bedrooms is ensuite and they have cathedral, beamed ceilings. The inviting pool is bordered by lovely perennial flower beds and a rose garden – it is delightful and private. The classical exterior has wonderful stonework on the front wing, which becomes the base for the Great Room chimney and there is a new cedar roof – the condition of this entire property is outstanding. $4,900,000 Listed by Meri Thomas Please contact us for details

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FEATURES 88

State of Real Estate 2018 BY CHRIS HODENFIELD

The real estate market can perplex even the savviest of investors. We talk to the experts to get their thoughts on the up, the down and the sideways.

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The New Greenwich Gateway BY TIMOTHY DUMAS

The Bruce Museum is about to undergo a transformation

DEPARTMENTS of epic proportions—one that will catapult it (and Greenwich) to new levels in the worlds of art and science.

20 | EDITOR’S LETTER

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33 | STATUS REPORT BUZZ: The Parent Collective; Angela Cosmai Salon SHOP: Beauty finds GO: Heading to Hollywood HOME: Patrick

A Time of Change BY TIMOTHY DUMAS

It’s no secret that the Avenue looks a little different these days. To some, it can seem a bit scary. But with forwardthinking, zoning flexibility and creative solutions, it may actually be pretty exciting.

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64 | G-MOM Hitting the road on two (or three) wheels.

69 | PEOPLE & PLACES Avon Theatre; Round Hill Nursery School; Chabad of Greenwich; House Hop; Hospital for Special Surgery; Loft Artists Association; Food Allergy Research & Education

85 | V OWS Mele–Smitherman; Erdman–Wernig

129 | C ALENDAR 143 | INDEX OF ADVERTISERS 144 | POSTSCRIPT An Easter offering

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Ridgefield, CT | $3,800,000 | Web# CT99189920 Restored 8-BR, 7-BA, 2-half BA, in-town historical home with 2-BR cottage. Sally Slater O:203.622.4900 M: 914.584.0137

Greenwich | $3,450,000 | Web# CT101086 “The Cedars” is an iconic treasure offering extraordinary architecture and a prime in-town location. Robin Kencel O:203.622.4900 M: 203.249.2943

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EDITOR’S Letter

CRISTIN MARANDINO

FOR NEARLY AS LONG AS THIS MAGAZINE

has been around, April has been our annual Real Estate issue. It’s when we talk to experts in the market to get a sense of the winds of change. But this month, in addition to the residential market, we explore another area where those winds are blowing—our downtown. The shifting retail landscape (thank you, Jeff Bezos) has changed the rules and it’s no longer business as usual. Literally and figuratively. But we are not alone. Virtually every high-end retail environment in the country is facing an evolution of sorts. And that’s exactly what it is—an evolution. Brick and mortar is not going the way of the Betamax. It simply requires new and creative thinking. In “A Time of Change” (page 120), writer Tim Dumas talks to realtors, landlords and folks with innovative solutions (but ones that require a shift in the old-school “we’ve always done it this way” mentality) for their take on what the future could hold. And we couldn’t talk about our downtown, or the evolution of it, without reporting on the amazing renovation going on at the Bruce Museum (“The New Greenwich Gateway,” page 104). The

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museum, which has greeted visitors since 1912, is poised to become a major player in the art world. And that’s not only good news for residents who will now have a world class museum in their backyard, it’s good for business as well. The stunning 70,000-square-foot structure (wait until you see the renderings) will become an art and science destination, drawing visitors from near and far, who will then presumably shop and dine here. Now, back to our look at the residential market. In “The State of Real Estate 2018” (page 88), writer Chris Hodenfield conducts his annual investigation of the market and explores the “new normal.” He looks at what’s selling (welcome back, backcountry), who’s buying, and the impact of Wall Street’s moodiness. The one universal truth? For an educated buyer, an investment in Greenwich real estate has little competition. In the early 1900s, a brick-laid Greenwich Avenue was commonly referred to as the Yellow Brick Road. A fact that I find wholly appropriate because, I think we can all agree, there’s no place like home.

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archives to research something, I have to allow plenty of extra time for laughs. It’s all about memorable moments behind the scenes during three decades of interviews and photo shoots. The first to come to mind was in November 1987 when we lined up two U.S. ambassadors, Frank Forsberg (Sweden) and Joseph Verner Reed (Morocco), for a cover shoot with Claire Vanderbilt at the Historical Society. An achievement in itself. But when the photographer arrived and opened the trunk of his car to get out his camera, it wasn’t there. It had been stolen in New York the night before. Gretchen Tatge, God bless her, rushed over to save the day. This would be our last black and white cover. What follows are further examples of what our photographers and writers have experienced on the front lines. STUCK IN THE MUD—There was the Halloween cover shoot at the Garden Center when photographer Bob Capazzo and a friend went ahead of time to clean up the edge of the pond. “We raked out leaves that must have been there during the Nixon administration,” he says. He stepped out on a log he thought was solid, fell in backwards, his high boots filled with water and he got stuck so deep in the mud that his friend had to pull him out. Then later at the shoot, one of the little girls dressed as a fairy climbed up in a tree and wouldn’t come down. Realizing the shoot might go on without her, Scarlet the Starlet, as we called her, finally condescended to join the

group. “But it was worth it all after looking at the shots,” Bob says with well-earned pride. “No Photoshop back then.” GETTING HIS KICKS—I joined Bob on a trip to the backcountry for a kitchen story to run in a decorator issue. The owners of the lovely home had two little boys, about ages five and two. We posed the older kid on a kitchen counter where he sat casually swinging his legs—except every time his little brother toddled past, he’d kick him in the head. The mother seemed oblivious, but Bob was so undone he forgot to load his camera for the first half of the shoot. SENIOR MOMENTS—Bob and I went to the New York Botanical Garden to photograph a pair of generous donors. But when the lady sat down on a bench in the rose garden, it became all too obvious that her shirt was all too short. So Bob, diplomatic soul that he is, suggested she take off her big picture hat because it shaded her face too much and put it on her lap. He also went into New York to photograph a major art and antiques collector—for one, she had Napoleon’s desk. Upon arrival, he discovered that Madame was half in the bag, and fearing she might collapse, he had to work fast. It may have been his most difficult shoot. DRESSED TO KILL—to kill a story, that is. Editor Cristin Marandino joined photographer Visko Hatfield at the SICIS showroom in New York to shoot Scooter Braun, talent manager of such celebs as Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande. But Scooter showed up wearing rumpled cargo shorts and a flannel shirt. Cristin was

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FOUNDERS ready to hop a cab to Barney’s for a more appropriate outfit when Visko remembered that in his car he had a black Armani suit he’d been given to wear at an Armani event he’d shot the night before. And—there is a god—the guys happened to be the same size and height. “So we popped Scooter in the suit and started shooting,” Cristin recalls. “He was quite charming, up for anything and gave us all the time we needed.” This was our December 2010 cover. THE PEPSI CHALLENGE—At 7:30 a.m. one morning editor Cinnie Coulson got a call from PepsiCo, learning to her horror that our writer was stuck in a pileup on the Merritt and couldn’t make it to a longawaited interview with Indra Nooyi at 8 a.m. The story was to be our next cover. Cinnie jumped out of bed, dressed like a shot, drove from her Riverside home to our Greenwich office to grab her tape recorder and arrived at PepsiCo in Purchase just as our photographer had finished taking Indra’s picture. End of story: The CEO gave her one of the best interviews she’d ever had, and our February cover featured Indra’s portrait beside a line reading: The Pepsi Challenge. “In more ways than one,” quips Cinnie. ARTFUL DODGERS—Writer Tim Dumas has had his share of elusive subjects. To prepare for one story, he had trekked into New York to study up on African art, but when he arrived for the interview, the collector laid down such severe conditions that Tim called me. “He won’t let us use his name, but he’s invited me for lunch.” “Well, stay if you want to,” I told him, “but we can’t run stories without names.” So they sat down to a civilized lunch and Tim learned about all the millions he’d had to spend on his divorce. Pinning down Bernie Yudain, our town’s peerless pundit, was another challenge for Tim—odd because Bernie was one of our writers, editorial advisors and a Dumas and Moffly family friend. For years he had declined to be interviewed until now, and

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in a weak moment he had agreed. But first he came down with laryngitis. Then he had an eye doctor appointment and a luncheon and the busiest week ever. A morose Tim pleaded and pleaded with him, explaining that he had an unusually punishing deadline. Finally, the old newspaper man in him took pity, but not before remarking, “Geez. Why’d they give you so little time? They must be afraid I’m going to kick the bucket.” We got a superb story. BLOWING HOT AND COLD—Writer Jane Kendall was assigned to do an historical piece on Greenwich graveyards. Deadline: the middle of an August heat wave. So she with her notebook and Bob with his camera went from getting bug-bitten in Tomac Cemetery in Old Greenwich to “a sweet little burying ground” for sailors and slaves in Byram, to “wickedly hilly” Putnam Cemetery where the headstones of Commodore Benedict’s wife and daughter list only their dates of death (“a lady never reveals her age”) to the Milbank mausoleum designed to hold 100 dear departed, though only six were in residence. The temperature had hit 104, but by day’s end “red-faced, dripping, limp and somewhat odiferous,” they’d finally found Ezio Pinza, Jane had gotten her story and Bob had gotten his shots. At the other extreme, a game Jack Moffly, as both writer and photographer, covered an Opti Regatta at the Riverside Yacht Club in an unexpected blizzard late one fall. The teenaged sailors spent the second morning of the two-day race scraping the ice out of their boats before setting sail into the teeth of another blistery Nor’Wester. Only one boat capsized, but the young lady at the helm climbed out of the frigid water and back on board to finish the race. And on the deck of the stake boat Jack was with them all the way. Never mind he was pushing ninety. LIFE ON THE EDGE—Our writer Chris Hodenfield has bad dreams about this story. He had spent hours and hours talking to

realtors about the great economy, booming Wall Street and super-strong housing market, only to find, as he was turning in the article, that the stock market was tanking. “Boy, I remember that as if it were yesterday,” says Hod, adding, “or today, actually.” FLYING HIGH—Then there was First Selectman John Margenot, who we posed high above his town in the cupola of the old Town Hall (now the Arts/Senior Center) for a bird’s-eye view of the Avenue and beyond. But it turned out he was acrophobic and so was the writer Cinnie Coulson. “I was holding his hand,” she recalls, “and we were both gritting our teeth, hanging onto each other for dear life.” It was ironic, since as a teen, John had served as a plane spotter in the same cupola during World War II. I don’t think our senior writer Bill Slocum fancies himself an Olympian, but we keep assigning him sports stories— maybe because he comes from a family of sportswriters. But Bill can write anything and likes to dig deep into his subjects. So among other things, he has found himself teetering on a skateboard and sweating bullets in the basket of a hot air balloon. “I am a total acrophobe,” he admits. “I get dizzy on stepladders and fidget on planes.” On the balloon ride, Bill couldn’t enjoy the peace and quiet of the upper air because his heart was pounding so hard, he says, especially remembering “the creepy sensation” of watching a formation of geese flying below him. “I was just happy I didn’t pass out. Or fall out.” And he hugged a tree the minute he landed. But he handed me a great story (called “A Sport on the Rise”) the next week and quotes me as saying with a big smile: “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Write for me and you’ll go places?’ ” So when I need a refreshing laugh, the place I go is the greenwich magazine archives—now covering decades of adventure. And there’s no admission fee. G

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“We felt like new mums and dads were craving connection before they came home with that new little one.” Melissa Griffin

New Motherhood Is Bliss “Being a new mother isn’t all hearts and flowers and anyone who tells you otherwise is setting you up for failure,” notes Jessica, who adds everything from exhaustion to loneliness to postpartum depression can take its toll. “I subscribe to the eyes-wide-open notion. If you go in knowing it’s not easy, you may actually roll with it a little easier.”

C-Sections Are Failures “No one can predict or plan how their delivery is going to go and no one should have guilt about a C-section,” says Melissa, who explains that The Parent Collective has actually expanded its cesarean section

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Breast is Always Best The Parent Collective calls its newborn feeding segment “Breast & Bottle” class because it supports the idea that feeding choices are personal and sometimes beyond a mother’s control. “To only advocate for breastfeeding would make our mothers feel judged and that’s not our style,” says Jessica.

Comparing notes, the enterprising moms realized that the kind of supportive environment they had found in England was largely missing on this side of the pond. “Hospital type classes tend to be a little more dry, scary and clinical,” explains Jessica, an American who gave birth to her two children during the decade she lived in England. Melissa, a native Brit and fellow mother of two adds, “We felt like new mums and dads were craving connection before they came home with that new little one, but it was hard to find their crew.” So, last year the pair launched The Parent Collective, which offers warm, informative prenatal classes taught by experienced labor and delivery nurses from Fairfield County hospitals. Parent Collective classes offer expert advice in judgement-free zones where potentially hot-button topics such as breastfeeding and delivery methods are discussed in ways that support parents’ choices and experiences. “We also want people to have time to bond,” says Melissa, who notes the two hour classes include a “tea break” so expectant parents can connect. “We love seeing them foster those connections, because they will need and appreciate them once their newborn comes. “ This spring the Parent Collective, which has already launched in Fairfield, Westport, New Canaan and Manhattan, began offering Sunday afternoon classes at the Go Figure barre studios in Greenwich. “We’ve found there is a real interest from working, commuting moms who want to make connections close to home,” says Melissa. The program is also designed to get dads-to-be more comfortable and empathetic in their roles too, including asking them to slip on heavily weighted vests that simulate a pregnant belly and diaper change lifelike dolls. Melissa and Jessica welcome all family types, from traditional to same-sex to single moms. A series of four classes is $350 per couple. theparentcollective.com —Beth Cooney Fitzpatrick

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ngela Cosmai began working in her mother’s Brooklyn hair salon as soon as she could reach the shampoo sink. Later in her career, she learned her coloring techniques from the noted colorist Robert Renn, and when he died in the mid ’80s, Angela took over his client list. Today, she divides her time between the Pierre Michel Salon in New York City where she has worked for many years and has a loyal client base, and her recently opened Angela Cosmai Salon (entrance on the side of Hermès on Greenwich Avenue). Angela downplays her celeb clients (Meryl Streep, Lauren Hutton, Christopher Walken, to name a few) or that she flies regularly to Europe and Palm Beach to keep her clients’ locks looking lovely. But oh, how she loves to talk about hair! Her passion is to use custommixed, peroxide- and amonia-free color to beautify tresses—especially dull, lifeless and overprocessed strands. Her optimal result

is a multifaceted color that’s subtle and believable, leaving onlookers wondering, “Does she or doesn’t she?” Consider Lisa Birnbach, author of the 80s classic The Official Preppy Handbook, who says she’s more loyal to Angela than her gynecologist. Years ago Lisa tried to convince Angela to make her blonde. “I begged her. Because everyone said blondes have more fun but Angela told me I would look terrible as a blonde. I let her have her way.” Today Lisa’s hair is a deep, healthy brown, except for what Birnbach calls the “hand-selected lucky streaks” that get high and low lights. Angela charges $200 to $600 per visit; her staff $125 to $450. Her team includes Elizabeth Hammer Khawaja, who has worked with Angela for more than two decades. “We care about the condition of the hair and do treatments to get it healthy before we color,” Elizabeth says. “Hair has to shine.” —Valerie Foster

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There may be newer and swankier hotels in the area, but the Beverly Hills Hotel (affectionately known as the Pink Palace) has always been, and continues to be, the place to see and be seen.

The pink walls, red carpet entrance and stately palm trees have been there since before Los Angeles was even a city. It opened in 1912 and little has changed except the celebrities who call it their home away from home. We sat down with the hotel’s director of guest relations, Steven Boggs, to get the real deal on what

goes on behind those storied walls. As we tucked into the first booth at the renowned Polo Lounge, Dean Martin’s favorite, Steve fielded regulars stopping by to check in. On the subject of things that have gone down at the Polo Lounge, he tells us that the staff has been “keeping secrets for 105 years.” In fact,

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Women Who Wear the Pants Marlene Dietrich refused to abide by the “women must wear dresses” code at the Polo Lounge. From then on, women were allowed to wear slacks. Then & Now The famous red carpet entrance has not changed since this photo was shot in the 1950s. Pooling Resources The Polo Lounge isn’t the only place where movie magic has happened. Legend has it that Leonard Bernstein came up with the idea for West Side Story in Cabana No. 3.

camera tucked away, it’s highly frowned upon—and flat-out banned at the pool. Speaking of the pool, it’s reserved for hotel guests only so book a room (rates start at $695 in the off-season). Or really splurge and book one of the twenty-three bungalows on-property. Each is completely unique and all have the distinction of having been a short-term home to some of the most famous and wealthy guests in history. In 1942, Howard Hughes bought up half a dozen of the bungalows and lived there on several occasions throughout the decades. The hotel accommodated his eccentricities, including his request for roast beef sandwiches to be delivered to a nook in a tree. »

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the staff is so good at discretion, I almost missed Shaquille O’Neal— all seven feet and one inch of him—tucked into a private corner table. Which, we suppose, is one of the reasons so many celebs flock here. Plenty of deals have been inked on the back of napkins in the dimly lit restaurant. But if you’re hoping to score one of the power booths on the weekend, you’ll need to have some pull with Pepe, whose title, Director of the Polo Lounge, doesn’t begin to cover his role as table arbiter and celeb soother. So, what happens when Leonardo DiCaprio wants the booth that Al Pacino reserved (they are both regulars)? Steve says he defers to Pepe. You don’t need to be a guest of the hotel to dine at the Polo Lounge, but you’ll definitely want to make a reservation. If you’re looking for a less-expensive celeb dining experience, head downstairs to the Fountain Coffee Room. This old-time breakfast grill has only nineteen barstools and everyone waits in line for a spot. There’s no preferential treatment here. Steve chuckles as he talks about spotting Senator John Kerry (who was running for President at the time) standing in line behind Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne and in front of Ellen DeGeneres. But keep your

Stay in Line The Fountain Room is a lowkey breakfast hangout. There are only nineteen bar stools and everyone waits in line, regardless of fame or Oscar ownership.

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many stars as the Vanity Fair Oscar party. Grace Kelly has a suite named after her, and Marilyn Monroe posed for her last photo shoot at the hotel’s pool. The sitting has been immortalized in the book The Last Sitting by Bert Stern. The only thing new about the hotel are the suites that were built into the canyon hills during a 2011 renovation. The exterior maintains its old-world stateliness, but the interiors feature luxe amenities like TVs hidden in mirrors and automated toilets complete with heated seats. We recommend the Canyon Studio (starting at $1,400 per night). The room spills outdoors with a private spa pool and fireplace on the patio. Grab dinner at the restaurant named after head chef Wolfgang Puck and there is a better than average chance that the man himself will stop by your table to ensure that the meal is to your liking.

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HOLLYWOOD TRIVIA 1 The Hollywood sign once read “Hollywoodland” to announce the development of elegant homes built on the hill. (The last four letters disappeared long ago.)

2 For the ultimate Instagram pic, head to Griffith Park (where key scenes of La La Land were filmed) and find a spot where it appears that you’re in the middle of an “O” on the Hollywood sign.

The Hotel Bel-Air The Hotel Bel-Air is equally wellknown and as elegant as the Beverly Hills Hotel, just a tad more reserved and understated. (Think Jennifer Lopez vs. Meryl Streep.) There are only 103 rooms and suites spread across the twelve-acre property, leaving a lot of space for nature. A walk from your room to the restaurant takes you past bubbly fountains, tropical trees and hidden gardens. In addition to the iconic swans (who are almost as famous as the stars who have stayed here), the hotel has a new resident, Apollo the turtle, who simply appeared one day and is now the adored and protected hotel mascot. Smart turtle. The hotel originally opened in 1946 and has hosted as

History in the Making: The Hollywoodland sign, erected in 1923, was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1973.

Love Birds Two of the famous swans who live at Swan Lake in front of the Hotel Bel-Air Privite Idaho Booths at Wolfgang Puck restaurant are secluded so that stars can easily enjoy a meal without anyone realizing they are there.

Another hot spot for celeb sightings is the Sunset Tower Bar (it’s a restaurant at the Sunset Tower Hotel). Make friends with the maitre’d, Dimitri, but keep your phone in your pocket; two employees were recently fired for allowing guests to snap pics of restaurant guest Katy Perry.

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Bungalow No. 5 was a favorite of both Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor; it’s the biggest bungalow (four bedrooms) and features a private pool. The pool was built by Walter Annenberg because he and Mrs. Annenberg didn’t care for walking all the way to the main pool. (Bungalow rates are available upon request.)

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Beauty & Charm Patrick Mele’s new salon filled

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For Mele (below), opening his first store in Greenwich has special meaning. “I’d always wanted and planned on having a store, and the right opportunity presented itself. I’m happy I’m doing this in my hometown.”

When selecting the ideal site, Mele knew right where he wanted to be. “I’m in a corner building that I really had an

affection for growing up here,” he says. “I love the history in this space, that it’s imperfect and has character. With tenfoot tin ceilings and a classic store frontage, the bones of it cinched it for me. I knew I could make it great.” After tearing out the carpet and built-ins, installing classic track lighting, and painting the walls and plywood floors white, “it’s like a raw gallery space you’d find in the city,” he says. “I’m opening up with the feeling of a bazaar, like in Morocco or Turkey, with jewel tones and rich, saturated color. I want this to be a fabulous retail store that people have to come back to time and time again because I plan to

stylistically reimagine the space multiple times a year.” Mele plans on being at the store several times a week, and his mother, Pat, who has worked in Greenwich retail for nearly twenty years, will run the day-to-day. “My goal is to get people excited about coming to a physical shop once again, to enjoy a one-onone, 360-degree experience that you simply can’t capture through a screen.” —Lauren Fetterman Patrick Mele 60 William Street patrickmele.com

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here’s no place like home, and for Patrick Mele, it’s where he’s chosen to set up shop. This past December, the New York Citybased designer opened his first eponymous store right here in his hometown, and it’s already proven to be a destination for the interesting and the interested. Housed in a century-old, 500-square-foot former neighborhood grocer in the heart of downtown, Mele’s vision of a consistently rotating mini-department store has vibrantly come to life. An assemblage of furnishings, art, lighting, carpets, fragrances, jewelry and select items chosen for their timeless beauty and charm greets the eye. “It’s a mix of refurbished antiques and period pieces with great personality, ranging from the seventeenth century to today,” says Mele. “I like intelligent, I like colorful, I like humor, I like well-traveled, and I like a sense of history and a room that tells a story.” The space also showcases thoughtfully chosen lines and one-of-a-kind treasures. Noguchi Akari light sculptures, unique selections from Creel and Gow, vintage and costume jewelry, and Régime des Fleurs bespoke fragrances are just a sampling of what’s in store. Contemporary artwork by Wayne Pate, Alicia Ethridge and Ak Jansen, and pottery by Nicholas Newcomb currently mingle with African masks, kilim pillows and painted furniture.

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strong vision is key to great architecture, so it’s fitting that architect Rich Granoff transformed a ninety-year-old utility-company building into a sleek, industrial 30,000-squarefoot office that has become his firm’s headquarters. The old CL&P building on Railroad Avenue may not have caught the average person’s eye, but Rich saw potential in its giant windows, amazing light and brick walls when he purchased the building three years ago. “I’d been looking to buy a building in Greenwich for ten years,” he recalls. “It was a big financial commitment. I took the risk and I think it’s going to have a happy ending.” After growing his business in Greenwich over nearly three decades, he wanted a space to accommodate his team of twentyfour whose services extend to interior design and landscape architecture. With projects like the River House Adult Day Center and Restoration Hardware Gallery (the former Greenwich Avenue Post Office) under his cap, Rich is no stranger to the challenges of working on older buildings. He applied to the state to receive a historic designation for 330 Railroad Avenue. Following a

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1 above: A wall of plants enlivens the entry to this openconcept office. right: Rich Granoff

GREEN SPACE Inside the entry, a living wall of 1,100 plants greets visitors. Six species of plants that grow in a colorful pattern stay green and healthy via a built-in irrigation system. The

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plants clean the air in the office and also make it social mediafriendly, serving as a fun backdrop for photos taken at parties and fundraisers held at the office.

FLEX TIME The largest conference room in the building features floor-to-ceiling folding glass doors that can enclose the space for meetings and open up for events; Rich hosts parties regularly and invites nonprofits such as Kids in Crisis and UJA-JCC of Greenwich to hold their charitable events here. Surroundsound speakers pipe in music throughout the office. A giant blackboard wall at one end of the conference room is primed for

meeting notes or doodles from guests.

WINDOW SHOPPING All 100 windows in the building needed to be replaced, with new steel lintels for each one. This was the single biggest expense of the renovation. For energy efficiency and optimum natural light without glare on computers, the blinds on the new windows raise and lower automatically depending on the time of day and location of the sun.

MATERIALS MATTERS “It’s hard to specify certain surfaces just

by seeing them online,” says Rich. So he created a large materials library, its walls stocked with samples of the most current collections of wall coverings, carpet, tiles and wood, such as a living-edge oak from Poland that he recently spec’d for the café counter on the building’s second floor.

INDOOR PARKING The lowest level of the building contains an indoor parking garage with eighteen spots, including a Tesla charging station. “It was a big selling point for the building,” he says.

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Granoff’s thoroughly modern corner office is outfitted with luxe Italian furnishings: a Luceplan chandelier and Daniel Libeskind sofa as well as a sit-stand desk (he rarely ever sits).

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File it under “only in Greenwich,” the most unusual office space in the building has been leased to some local hedge funders. The highceilinged rooms house a golf simulator as well as a lounge with 100inch video screen, bar and small kitchen. It’s a place for high-stakes finance guys to blow off steam when they’re not working.

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Fifty percent of Granoff Architects’ business involves commercial projects and interior design for businesses. Recent projects include a 60,000-square-foot building on West Putnam Avenue, with a gut renovation, interior design and landscape work, for L Catterton and an ongoing 30,000-square-foot space for Tudor Investments in Stamford. Rich shared some of the trends he’s seeing in commercial spaces and how they’re reflected in his own building.

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The second floor of the new Granoff building will be dedicated to coworking. “That’s definitely a trend in the real estate world,” Rich notes of the flexible style of offices pioneered by We Work. He has leased the space to Greenwich locals who have founded a coworking company called Work Well Win (as of press time a name change was in the works) that’s geared toward the higher end of the market and financial services. “It’s going to be a really sharp space,” says Rich. “The model is, you can rent a seat, a desk, an office and/or a conference room for a day, a week, a month, a year.” The coworking model can help start-up businesses secure a Greenwich address and open without the longer-term lease commitment while they grow and expand.

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Eco-friendly elements continue to be popular in all new buildings. Here, Granoff sourced natural materials, such as wool carpet throughout, LED lighting and low-flow water fixtures. The repurposing of an old structure and preserving all the old bricks and floors make the building inherently green. —Mary Kate Hogan

by Daniel Libeskind sits opposite a sit-stand desk (all desks in the office have ‘standing’ capability) and under a contemporary Italian Luceplan chandelier made with thin Fresnel lenses that multiply the light.

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With its open ceilings, exposed brick walls, and exposed duct work and polished concrete floors, the building epitomizes industrial style. Rich notes, “I think the open space fosters communication and collaboration, which is so important in a creative field.”

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We’re all working so much these days that people are looking for more home comforts at the office. This calls for residential elements, such as furniture and lighting fixtures, more like what you’d see in a home dining room or living room. In Rich’s corner office, a Moroso sofa designed

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hen fitness entrepreneur Clair Mason was vacationing in Spain last year, she dropped into a boutique fitness studio and spent an exhilarating hour being pushed through the paces of an intense group workout on an elliptical trainer. “After class I said, ‘This is genius. I’ve got to find a way to bring this home.’ ”

Sweat-drenched inspiration soon led to a partnership between Clair, a Westporter, and Laura Laboissonniere, a Greenwich resident and fellow fitness entrepreneur. They merged their fitness business backgrounds to launch ELLIPTICA, a new workout concept featuring vigorous, instructor-led workouts performed from the perch of sleek, elliptical-style machines. Elliptica opened the first of its two studios in Fairfield in September 2017 and quickly followed up with an Old Greenwich studio in January. “What’s great about this is you’re going to sweat, have fun. The class is filled with a contagious energy,” says Laura, who also owns Pure Barre fitness franchises in Fairfield, Westport and Darien. The Elliptica approach to group fitness is a lot like an indoor cycling class. An instructor leading from an elevated platform coaches students through an upbeat cardio routine set to a motivating, up-tempo playlist. “You are getting that energy of a spinning class, and because it’s done standing, you’re also working your core,” adds Laura. 54

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Students are encouraged to pace themselves, varying intensity by lowering and raising resistance from a lever on the machine’s handles. Typical classes include hill climbs, sprints, and crank-up-the-resistance segments mixed with strategic pauses during full-on acceleration to perform squats and upper-body segments with handheld weights. “You are incorporating strength and balance, which is critical for all of us, especially as we mature,” says Clair, who owns Intensity fitness club on the Westport/Norwalk line The owners report classes have been popular with both men and women and with fitness enthusiasts of all ages eager to try something new.”—Beth Cooney Fitzpatrick

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ar Zepoli had us the minute we entered and saw its brick walls, wood floors and tabletops, huge windows draped in burgundy fabric—a rich color repeated on the ceiling—and a lovely, homey bar that seemed to beckon, “come in and stay awhile.” This space was the longtime home to the popular, and still-missed, Stamford staple, Napa & Co. Thankfully, Bar Zepoli did not set out to imitate anything that Napa offered. This self-proclaimed “Italian-American Grill” is a total redo, offering original interpretations of Italian mainstays that all work very well. We felt special from the start, beginning with our 58

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drink orders, which were taken and delivered promptly with a presentation of perfectly baked, crusty Italian bread. Not one of us could resist dipping a slice into the generous helping of fruity, rosemary-scented olive oil at the center of the table. To share, we agreed on two offerings from the small plates section and one pizza to begin our meal. Many restaurants are now adding lobster to add depth to macaroni and cheese but here, portions of the crustacean are generous and paired with crispy pancetta, presenting a savory and sweet contrast that is extraordinary. Since it’s prepared in a blend of Gruyère and

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cheddar, and topped with grape-tomato topping, the result is a fusion of creaminess, flavor and crunch that lingers just long enough. Nonna’s Meatballs were huge globes of a house blend of meat swimming in a sweet basil tomato sauce. It’s a wonderful recipe; we just wish it had been served a tad warmer. On the other hand, the pizza we opted for, the Toscana, featuring mozzarella and triple-cream Brie, was a perfect blend of oozy cheese and crispy crust. The added wild mushrooms, roasted shallots and drizzle of truffle oil added a welcome earthiness and bite to each morsel. At this point, we realized we had bitten off more than we could chew—for small plates, the portions are large. (You are officially warned.) But we powered on. The yellowfin tuna salad was a small work of

art, and a nice respite before our main courses. At the base were three wonton shells, which the chef individually fries and shapes into small flowers. They are served on a bed of seaweed, filled with diced yellowfin and a light, airy wasabi mousseline, and topped with large slices of pickled ginger. An avocado-lime vinaigrette adds the right tangy accent. The osso buco was exactly as it should be: falloff-the-bone veal served on a bed of mushroom risotto and accompanied by roasted root vegetables and a traditional herbed-citrus gremolata. It proved to be the perfect antidote to a cold winter night. Our pasta choice was carbonara, this version featuring tagliatelle—great for capturing the flavorful sauce—with rendered pork cheek, an upscale substitute for bacon. The pasta was al

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dente, the sauce creamy and flavorful, and the presentation almost too pretty to eat. And then there was the chicken scarpiello, a must-have when offered. At the base was a soft polenta that perfectly absorbed the juices from the moist chicken and sausage, and crispy onions and peppers that make up the dish. We decided on two desserts that our waiter told us were both too good to pass up. One was the zeppole (or zepole), their version of the Italian doughnut, a soft and chewy gem with a crispy, cinnamon-laced crust. Be sure to save bites to dunk into an espresso. Our second, a Machiatto Caramelo, an espresso mousse cake served on warm sea salt caramel, sprinkled with toffee crumble and served with rich, house-made vanilla ice cream, also received top honors.

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Cargo Hold You can’t drive through Old Greenwich these day without passing a Dutch-style Cargo Bike. Over sixty of them cruised down Sound Beach Avenue in the annual Old Greenwich Memorial Day Parade last year. Parents in the Netherlands have been using these specialty bikes, with a space in front to tow everything from groceries to up to four children in three-point safety harnesses, for the last decade. The Babboe Cargo Bike is available in Greenwich through local enthusiast Friso van Reesema at Going Dutch Bikes. According to van Reesema, “It all started with the community. I love the ‘gezelligheid’ or closeknit O.G./Riverside community that celebrates outdoor living, walking and biking. As a Dutchman, I love encouraging my children to be active in the community and sports. My wife, Meg, and I knew that the box bike would [be a great way] to say hi to friends while biking to school, town, the library, Binney Park, Tod’s Point and the Civic Center.”

The Babboe is available in five different styles, with two to three wheels and an electric battery option that lasts twentyfive hours per charge and can provide steady power or pedal assist. Accessories include rain and sun shields. Selling for $3,000 and up, you may want to rent a Babboe for a day or weekend to try it out. These bikes sell fast and with a limited inventory available, expect to wait up to about two months from order to delivery. Going Dutch Bikes can provide buyers with a good local bike mechanic who is experienced in servicing both the traditional and electric assist versions. goingdutchbikes.com

Join a Biker Gang Riding with a local group is a great way to share the experience and stay safe on long rides. Check with local bike shops, as most provide postings, sponsor rides and help fellow cyclists connect. For $25 you can purchase a family membership with the Fairfield County Sound Cyclists Bicycle Club, which sponsors large local charity rides such as the Bloomin’ Metric as well as local rides throughout Fairfield County. soundcyclists.com

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ore than 500 people from the Greenwich community gathered at Greenwich High School’s Performing Arts Center for a Chanukah concert and celebration—the largest Jewish community event in Greenwich to date. Greenwich First Selectman Peter Tesei lit the week’s fifth Chanukah candle with Chabad Rabbi Yossi Deren. The opening performance was by the Carmel Academy rock band Angels & Prophets, the local school’s Jewish band. The main act was the premier a cappella group the Maccabeats. Concertgoers enjoyed a kosher lunch by Soosh and By the Way Bakery. chabadgreenwich.org »

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he Lerner Children’s Pavilion at Hospital for Special Surgery celebrated its fifth anniversary with a benefit to support the Pavilion’s pediatric care and research. Hosted by actor Jason Biggs, the event included a cocktail hour and dinner at the Rainbow Room as well as a special performance from the Chris Norton Band. The event raised nearly $1.3 million for pediatric care and research. hss.edu »

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t appeared that a new normal had set in during the tumultuous year of 2017. The prices seen back in the rosy days of pre2008 had become a distant memory. Customers in the real estate market stopped using those old numbers as a barometer and got around to thinking of a property’s value right now. The result? A new era of realistic pricing and some very interesting sales. “It was sort of a sideways year,” says David Haffenreffer, a Houlihan Lawrence Realtor, reflecting on the intriguing mix of market actions. “Sale prices rose in 2017—both median and average—but almost exclusively

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due to the high end of the marketplace. It was interesting to see that part of the market escalate. I see so many stories about wealth leaving the state, but here were people dropping down a great deal of money for houses.” While our annual real estate report is generally topped by some screaming huge deal on a waterfront mansion, this year our collective eyebrows were raised by a return to Greenwich’s backcountry with ten properties in the $20-million range going to contract. The biggest question right now, of course, is how Wall Street’s massive throat-clearing at the beginning of 2018 will affect long-term plans. As Bloomberg notes, the new tax law will pile on to the national debt. The new Fed chairman, Jerome Powell, will likely have to keep bumping up the prime rate. Our market is, of course, comprised of people who study these details at a subatomic level and there seems to be a widespread confidence that the conditions that led to the bruising mortgage rates of thirty years ago are unlikely to return anytime soon. In the 13,000 square miles that make up the Tristate Area, Connecticut’s tax profile is probably the best. From evidence gathered by Eric Bjork of Berkshire Hathaway, we see that the classic New York City searcher is “now just skipping over Westchester completely and coming straight to Greenwich.” “When people put it on a spreadsheet,” says Pam Pagnani of Sotheby’s International Realty, “they see the difference.” Here, then, is our annual look at key factors that are impacting the always-interesting ride of the real estate market.

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FIRST, SOME BIG NUMBERS There was a big kick in the local market in the last quarter of 2017. November sales last year, for instance, numbered fortythree, a healthy bump over the twenty-four sold in November 2016. Folks evidently felt it was safe to start buying again and the boomlet of deals pushed total sales for the year to 570. This turned out to be nearly the same number of sales as 2016,

but the big-dog sales made the total $204 million richer. In January of 2017, the median sale price was $1.6 million and after a number of ups and downs, settled slightly higher in January of this year at $1.87 million. The average sale prices in the same period, according to Russell Pruner of Houlihan Lawrence, remained about the same: $2.4 million. Those sales in the last quarter were not all attributable to major price reductions, although some homes definitely showed a trimming of the price tag. One $13 million sale had started life on the market a few years

ago for $26 million. On Old Mill Road, a glorious house sold for $24 million; three years ago the asking price was $39 million. And the most astonishing sale, an eighty-acre spread in Conyers Farms, was sold by David Ogilvy for $21 million. A regal amount, to be sure, but the asking price three years ago was $65 million. Changing market conditions or timing? The buyers circulating through our towns do know a thing or two. “Greenwich buyers are very patient,” says Eric Bjork. “They will wait a year if they have to to get the deal they think is fair.” “I don’t think there’s ever a

shortage of buyers,” says David Haffenreffer. “They are ardent about getting a value and they are not going to budge until they get that.” Indeed, the average number of days a house spent on the market rose to 267 last year, up from 197 in 2016. But many big sales went for a premium over asking. “Look at 560 North Street,” says Pam Pagnani. “It’s a glorious, 1930-vintage brick Tudor situated on 3.7 acres, and it did $2 million better than its $20 million asking price. People saw the value and understood the history.” »

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WHAT’S HOT The trend has been so subtle some people might not have even noticed, but over the years there has been a growing urbanization of Fairfield County. Our sleepy villages and towns now seem to be as vibrant and energized as some outer boroughs of New York City. Accordingly, there is a new interest in urban-style living quarters. “Greenwich has done well with condos,” says Pam Pagnani. “It follows a trend we’ve seen on the West Coast: More people want to be within walking distance of a vibrant downtown. It was once said that this would never happen in Connecticut— after all, we have our beautiful terrain and woods and the stone walls. But it did happen. Condos have become popular.” “Everyone wants to live near downtown or close to Cos Cob,” says Vicki D’Agostino of William Raveis. New construction is always preferred, of course. She points out that the historic Old Harbor House Inn on Shore Road was totally reimagined and rebuilt. “It was turned into six condos and they are beautiful, oh my gosh.”

Other prize properties can be found on those streets branching off from Town Hall and up Millbank. That area features new townhouses with lots of floor space and no lawn, and they are fetching up to $4 million. Being a short hike from the station—and a short stroll to Starbucks—is the new ideal. It turned out that the yen to tear down houses and put up multi-unit condos got a little too strong for some residents, and last June the Planning & Zoning Commission passed new rules in R-6 zone putting a two-unit limit on the new subdivisions. The last project to get approval under the old limit is an impressive new construction at 125 Hill Point Road, featuring twelve grand units in two buildings. “These are superluxury flats, the equivalent of what you would see in Manhattan,” says Tamar Lurie of Coldwell Banker, who put this together with her team, including Laurie Smith and Jen Danzi. “These are very much a rarity in Greenwich and very much in demand.” Prices start at $2.9 million on the ground floor, up to $3.5 million for the penthouses, some of which

have water views. “Maybe the most important thing is that it’s walking distance to downtown and the train. That’s special today,” says Lurie. The ability to walk around the neighborhood is the major reason that Riverside and Old Greenwich have turned into hot little hamlets. In one year, the average price jumped half a million, going to $2.4 million last year, up from $1.9 million in 2016. Price leaps like this are probably attributable to the classic human urge to keep up with the Joneses. (As in, “If the Joneses got $2 million for that shack, we’re going for $3 million for our adorable home.”) These price speculations do, however, affect sales, which totaled seventy-seven last year, a fall-off from ninety-eight in 2016. “When one sells quickly, someone else thinks it might be worth it to raise their price a little,” says Barbara Zaccagnini of Coldwell Banker. But not everyone wants a village. “When we have clients in the car,” says Joann Erb of Halstead, “they’re not sure where they want to be, so you go down through Old Greenwich. They either get claustrophobia—‘The small

STYLE:

COLONIAL STUNNING TURN-OF-THECENTURY MANOR SET ON OVER THREE ACRES

MID-COUNTRY

9,800,000 1905

Lots of properties are moving in this convenient part of town

13,038 SQ.FT.

STYLE:

COLONIAL CHARMING AND GRACIOUS HOME ON A CUL-DE-SAC

1,787,500 1955 3,288 SQ.FT.

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GEORGIAN COLONIAL

TIMELESS DESIGN THAT IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE EARLIEST PROPERTIES IN THE DEER PARK ASSOCIATION

7,350,000 1928 8,618 SQ.FT.

$12,075,000

Stunning New Construction STYLE: COLONIAL EXQUISITE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND CRAFTSMANSHIP IN MID-COUNTRY

12,075,000 2017 10,500 SQ.FT.

STYLE: ENGLISH MANOR ROMANTIC ESTATE ON MORE THAN FIVE ACRES

9,650,000 1929 12,386 SQ.FT.

STYLE: GEORGIAN COLONIAL AWARD-WINNING HOME SET ON TWO MANICURED ACRES

6,600,000 2016 10,767 SQ.FT.

STYLE: COLONIAL ELEGANT AND CLASSIC STYLE DESIGNED FOR EASY LIVING

4,700,000 1963 7,042 SQ.FT.

STYLE: COLONIAL CHARMING LANDMARK HOME CLOSE TO TOWN

2,050,000 1925 3,106 SQ.FT.

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houses, you can reach out and touch your neighbor’s house.’ Or they’ll fall in love. You tend to get one reaction or the other.” What’s the next hot neighborhood? Erb thinks it might be Byram. “Now that they’re getting the new New Lebanon elementary school, the new pool and park, it may be time for Byram to change. It might appeal to new families who can get into Greenwich reasonably.” Cos Cob, she adds, was also off the map until its school was replaced with the

nicest in town, and suddenly Cos Cob was a magnet for New York searchers beleaguered by city schools.

THE CUSTOMERS Regarding buyers, don’t make assumptions. In an earlier era, it was just understood that Greenwich buyers were all from the financial sector. “After the hiccups in the market,” says Pam Pagnani,

Beauty in Backcountry STYLE:

GEORGIAN COLONIAL CUSTOM DESIGNED STONE AND CLAPBOARD GEORGIAN SET ON NEARLY FIVE ACRES

11,100,000 2000 11,229 SQ.FT.

“the three largest employers were hospitals, universities and tech companies. We are not yet seeing that bearded tech type who skateboards home in Brooklyn, but many others from tech are coming here.” Several brokers have also noted a number of sales of big Greenwich places intended only for use as weekend getaways. “The buyers for the $20 million properties are getting younger and younger,” says Joann Erb. “People come out here wanting a certain kind of life. The Hamptons is so difficult to get to now. Getting to Greenwich is a comparative breeze.” David Ogilvy also points to desire to be close to extended family. “Another thing we’re seeing is people buying here so they can be close to their children who work in New York City, but the parents don’t want to live in New York.” In years past, the Greenwich market was buoyed by Russian and Chinese buyers looking to park their holdings in a safe neighborhood. Those nations acted to stop that fast flow of outgoing money, but couldn’t stop it completely. “It’s not as easy to get money here,” notes Barbara Zaccagnini, “but it’s not impossible.” Otherwise, it was seen that some of the bigger sales were

STYLE: ENGLISH MANOR THE ORIGINAL MODEL FOR THE LUXURY GATED TURNKEY CHIEFTANS COMMUNITY

BACKCOUNTRY

2,395,000 1995

The tides are turning

6,020 SQ.FT.

STYLE:

HISTORIC COMPOUND WITH A GUEST HOUSE, STONE WALLS AND CHARMING WALKWAYS

1,800,000 1839 5,206 SQ.FT.

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STYLE: CONTEMPORARY RESORT LIVING IN CONTEMPORARY STYLE

3,350,000 1984 8,626 SQ.FT.

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rung up by buyers from Britain, South America and the Middle East. This sort of United Nations appeal of Greenwich is well known at a firm like Berkshire Hathaway. “Of our ninety agents,” notes Eric Bjork, “fifteen come from outside the U.S.” Wherever they come from, they’ve been studying up. “Buyers are all now very savvy and have lots of information at their fingertips,” says Pam Pagnani. “Thanks to the web, they arrived armed with an arsenal of information.” The market, all brokers note, has changed greatly over the past decade. “It’s all about online now,” says Vicki D’Agostino. “Buyers and sellers are finding their agents via websites, social media and online presence. The buyers are way more informed because there’s so much more out there. Now everyone understands the process. Nothing is a secret.” In a sense, a house is staged twice. Once is the physical

beautifying, the other is the lush video capture presented on the realty firm’s web page. You’ll want to bring in an expert to do this.

THE HGTV EFFECT

For as long as anyone can remember, brokers have been pleading with clients to please, please declutter the house before putting it on the market. Out with those drapes and be sure to toss out Uncle Harvey’s carved-duck collection. In recent years, these pleas have amped up considerably. When today’s homebuyer waltzes into prospective quarters, they want to see what essentially amounts to brand-clean-new—and white as a cloud bank. The new influencer in the neighborhood might well be a TV channel, the HGTV network and its endless rotation of shows depicting

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hammer-swinging crews tearing into shabby old dumps and turning them into gleaming showplaces that win the heart. Barbara Zaccagnini acknowledges that HGTV has helped people learn to have more vision. “They watch those shows and can see what’s possible. And it’s helped Realtors.” But it’s not like fickle buyers are ready to put down their Starbucks cup and don the carpenter’s apron. “They want the job already done!” says Joann Erb with a laugh. “They

STYLE:

SHINGLE STYLE ULTIMATE GREENWICH LIVING: FOUR COTTAGES, TWENTYTWO STALL STABLE, “RUINS” STONE PARTY BARN

21,000,000 1904 8,038 SQ.FT.

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STYLE: GEORGIAN

GEORGIAN COLONIAL

LUXURIOUS PRIVACY ON THIRTEEN ACRES

A JEWEL TUCKED AWAY IN A PRIVATE COVETED BELLE HAVEN SETTING

COLONIAL

Grand & Gorgeous

8,000,000 1987

12,650,000 2000

12,988 SQ.FT.

6,621 SQ.FT.

KHAKUM WOOD STYLE:

GEORGIAN COLONIAL

ASSOCIATIONS

GRACIOUS LIVING IN A MID-COUNTRY ESTATE

5,800,000 1992

Gorgeous gated living

8,535 SQ.FT.

STYLE:

GEORGIAN COLONIAL STUNNING WATERFRONT OASIS

8,500,000 1922 7,912 SQ.FT.

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MILBROOK STYLE:

COLONIAL

FORMALITY MEETS FAMILY LIVING

2,900,000 2008 4,294 SQ.FT.

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want HGTV to come in and do it for them. The strongest part of the market now are houses that are newer, freshly painted, pristine. People don’t want to do anything. We just had one fall apart today because the client realized he’d have to do something and he pulled out.” “The appetite for renovation is not what it used to be,” Bjork laments. “The appetite for new construction persists.” The sweet spot of the Greenwich market, says Joann Erb, would actually be new construction in the $2- to $4million range, but the high price of land makes that a hard find

and inventory here is low. Thus, sellers who are not offering that prized new property should strive to make it at least look as new as possible. “I don’t mind if buyers smell a little fresh paint,” says Haffenreffer. And that fresh paint is likely to be white, the go-to color these days. Haffenreffer recalls some sellers who were horrified at the idea of having their cherry-wood kitchen cabinets covered in white paint. But they did it, and were gratified at the quick sale. Are today’s buyers just not into rich color schemes? Realtors get an extra bit of intelligence when they sell a

house that they had sold just five years earlier. What changes were made in the interim? Not all that much, it turns out. The whites and grays are still there and not a lot of personality was added to the house. “We’re not seeing the knickknacks” says Erb. “The art tends to be modern, which is fine but it’s been picked out by a designer. Young customers don’t want their parents’ antiquities, the Persian rugs.” But that might be changing. “Buyers overall are more savvy about architecture,” says Robin Kencel at Douglas Elliman. “They know the value of design.

And recently, I’m seeing some Millennials who understand antiques and design principles. A few years ago, they’d just want to blast out the dining room. But now they’re appreciating the traditional, conservative look. People even come here from Australia wanting the classic New England home out of White Christmas. They’re looking for a feel-good experience.” Just as long as it seems, uh, new. Bjork reflects on what might be called The New Rule: “It used to be location-locationlocation,” he says, “but now it’s condition-price-location.” David Ogilvy agrees. »

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BACK COUNTRY RIVERSIDE +

STYLE:

SHINGLE STYLE QUIET, CONVENIENT LUXURY

Essequam sunt velit estiis ea doluptaspis OLD GREENWICH iume dolorrum volumqui senimoluptae

2,350,000 2006

Still hot, dolupta hot, hot!quatur?At mo autatib eaquatiatem estinctur sit es et quamus

4,682 SQ.FT.

COLONIAL BEAUTIFULLY EXPANDED AND RENOVATED SITTING ON ONE ACRE

3,650,000 1961 4,986 SQ.FT.

STYLE:

COLONIAL OPEN, ENTERTAINMENTFRIENDLY FLOW

2,750,000 1939 4,845 SQ.FT.

STYLE:

OLD-WORLD CHARM WITH EVERY MODERN CONVENIENCE

9,000,000 1916 6,000 SQ.FT.

BACK COUNTRY Essequam sunt velitCOB estiis ea doluptaspis COS iume dolorrum volumqui senimoluptae A much sought-after family-friendly area autatib eaquatiatem dolupta quatur?At mo estinctur sit es et quamus

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STYLE: SHORE COLONIAL LUXURIOUS INDOOR/ OUTDOOR FAMILY LIVING

3,885,000 2007 N/A

STYLE:

COLONIAL CHARM OF HISTORY, LUXURY OF RENOVATION IN A WELCOMING NEIGHBORHOOD

1,575,000 1929 2,870 SQ.FT.

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“Condition is everything,” he says. No matter the house or location, if it’s in less than A-prime condition, he says, “you’re in for a long wait.”

SECRET MARKET

As we saw in Old Greenwich, it takes only a few great sales to get the neighbors revved up. Haffenreffer refers to these as “the headliney deals,” that filter into the marketplace and give people confidence to come out and buy. Thus it is with some sadness

when firms have to work sub rosa on a sale. There has always been our “deep state” market— properties that are never listed and sold in discreet silence. Even if the buyer is an LLC with the address being of a lawyer’s office. The transaction is not part of the official stats—it might as well have happened on Pluto. Tamar Lurie of Coldwell Banker was one of the top producing agents who worked on deals done in confidence. “I have six listings that are not on MLS. The buyers need this because they don’t want anyone to know they’re buying, especially when it’s a very expensive property. There

are those of us,” she laughs, “who want to tell the world, and not just for the credit. It would add some pizzazz to the market, because there are some very big names.” Of course, she won’t name these big names. We’re just going to have to wait till we see them shopping. “These people could live anywhere but they chose here.” David Ogilvy, who is very familiar with the transfer of castles, knows about this. “In my opinion you won’t get as good a price, but some people don’t mind that. I’ve done a few. If you have the perfect clients, it’ll work.” But whether the deal is strictly hush-hush or accomplished with

streamers and Champagne corks, people just want to be here. Of the four $20 million deals he swung, one was from out of state, the others from out of country. “The value of living in Greenwich is seen every year. The livability of the town is amazing. And buying a house is an emotional deal—it’s more than a transaction. You need to feel it. You need to feel yourself in the home. “Sometimes you hear people express the opinion that Connecticut is now a bad place to live.” Then Ogilvy laughs, because he’s seen the large investments of people who know it’s actually very, very good. G

STYLE:

SHINGLE STYLE LOCATED ON THE FORMER ROCKEFELLER PROPERTY, AN ELEGANTLY APPOINTED HOME

GLENVILLE

Perhaps Greenwich’s best-kept secret

3,850,000 2003 5,900 SQ.FT.

STYLE: RANCH UPDATED STYLE FOR EASY LIVING

810,000 1945 N/A SQ.FT.

STYLE: CAPE COD LIGHT, BRIGHT AND COMFORTABLE ON A QUIET STREET

625,000 1939 1,711 SQ.FT.

STYLE:

CONDOMINIUM/ COLONIAL

DOWNTOWN Seriously, what’s not to love?

CONDO LIVING AT ITS BEST: LIVE IN LUXURY, WALK TO TOWN

2,725,000 2006 3,815 SQ.FT.

STYLE:

FARMHOUSE

875,000 1920 1,154 SQ.FT.

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STYLE:

CONDOMINIUM/ COLONIAL

IN-TOWN ESTATE GRANDEUR

2,000,000 2016 4,684 SQ.FT.

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grand entrance: A striking staircase dominates the lobby and leads to the mezzanine, an intermediary space between the entry level amenities—café, shop and lecture hall—and the gallery level on high.

n 1853 Francis Lister Hawks, a renowned Episcopalian clergyman and historian, built a forbidding stone mansion overlooking Greenwich Harbor. People called it “the Hawks’ Nest.” Never one to stay anywhere for long (Christ Church cemetery excepted), Hawks soon sold the house to Robert M. Bruce, a New York cotton tycoon who, in old age, showered gifts upon Greenwich as though in place of the beloved family (two wives, three children) who died before him. Among these gifts was the mansion, which Bruce envisioned as a “natural history, historical and art museum.” Bruce died in 1909. For many years thereafter, visitors to the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science could be forgiven any shudders of dread they felt on approaching the old pile. The spooky, mansard-roofed tower and blustery widow’s walk made the place resemble nothing so much as the Addams Family mansion, and it was easy to picture a fat old buzzard up there, waiting to pluck off tender children straggling behind their oblivious parents. The interior rooms were no cheerier. Dark and dank, you strolled through them vividly aware of a taxidermied eagle peering at you through the gloaming as you tiptoed toward the minerals and bird eggs on exhibit. (The museum might have been nicer than that, but such is one’s psychological memory circa 1972.) When the New York Times reviewed “Treasures of the Bruce Museum” in 1987, it noted the chaotic nature of the collection—a giant clamshell, Cos Cob Impressionist paintings, Indian baskets, a portrait of Martha Washington one step away from a small aquarium “where languishes a

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horseshoe crab”—but ascribed “the muddle” to the limitations of trying to display such varied objects in such cramped quarters. “The museum was still very recognizable as a Victorian house,” recalls Anne von Stuelpnagel, the Bruce’s longtime director of exhibitions. “There was one long, skinny gallery that was originally the servants’ quarters and kitchen, and the converted dining room, and some space upstairs. Nothing was terribly well connected.” Clearly, an expansion was needed. It got a $4.3 million one in 1992, when the architectural firm Shope Reno Wharton surrounded the vertically oriented granite house with horizontal stucco wings and an Arts and Crafts-style entrance. The new Bruce Museum attracted exhibitions that were unimaginable in the old, such as “Linda McCartney’s ’60s: Portrait of

A BRIEF HISTORY 1853

The Bruce Museum was originally built as a private home for lawyer, clergyman and historian Francis Lister Hawks.

1858

Robert Moffat Bruce, a wealthy textile merchant and member of the New York Cotton Exchange, bought the house and property.

1912

The Bruce served as home base for the Greenwich Society of Artists, hosting its annual exhibition until 1926.

1933

GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Drawing by architect Albert A. Blodgett

Robert Moffat Bruce (1822â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1909)

1992

The 139-year-old building was completely renovated.

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Bruce, he pointed out an immodest sketch that Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec had made of himself: “If you want to know what a short little man looks like in the nude, there you are.”) Sutton alchemizes his connections, his erudition and his charm into blockbuster exhibits. Since Sutton’s arrival, works by Rubens, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Picasso, Alfred Sisley, Hans Hofmann, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder and Chuck Close, for starters, have graced the Bruce’s galleries. (Both Sutton and von Stuelpnagel would hasten to add that the Bruce is not all

“WE’RE GOING TO BE A MAJOR DESTINATION MUSEUM BECAUSE OF THE NEW BUILDING.” —PETER SUTTON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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about the big show. Certain non-boldface exhibits prove equally appealing, from “The Great American Nude” to “Charles Addams, Cartoonist.”) The Chuck Close opening in 2013 had all the glamour of a New York event, with Close himself in attendance, his polished, bespectacled visage motoring through the crowd in his electric wheelchair. Last year’s Sisley exhibit “read” like a brilliant resurrection of the under-sung Impressionist, a friend of Monet and Renoir. And now his stock is rising: a Sisley winter landscape recently fetched $9.1 million at auction. Putting these shows together is not easy: “Sisley took six years, because we don’t have anything to trade—nothing of the importance of these pictures,” Sutton tells a visitor to his office, situated up in the Hawk’s Nest. “So we have to come up with a rationale and a team of authors that persuades the lender that the context of the show will enhance their works of art.” As Sutton likes to say, the Bruce Museum punches above its weight. “We do shows that are at least as good as are done by any museum in the United States. And we export them, we’re entrepreneurial in that regard—but we can’t do the standardsized show.” That is, the Bruce Museum is once again too small: Its creative firepower far exceeds its space. The Sisley show accommodated fifty-one works. When it traveled to Aixen-Provence, France, it grew by fifteen. “We’ve sent shows on to Houston, San Francisco, Seattle, the National Gallery of Ireland, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam— and they always expand them,” Sutton says. “The biggest show we can do is about sixty objects. A standard-sized show is more like 120 objects, 140 objects.” This brings Sutton to the subject at hand. He presents a lovely, misty rendering of the new Bruce Museum—a luminous rectangle that will more than double the museum’s present size, from 30,000 square feet to 70,000 square feet. The construction timetable is not yet certain, but Sutton hopes that work on the three-story,

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an Era” and “Scenes of American Life” featuring works by Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and Rockwell Kent. “The quality of shows certainly got upped a notch,” von Stuelpnagel says. “And when Peter Sutton came in 2001, we raised the quality of shows to the international level.” Peter Sutton is the Bruce’s executive director and resident magician. Tall, courtly and luxuriantly white-haired, he is an expert in the Old Master painters; he can talk about art like the scholar that he is or like a man in the street. (Leading a tour recently at the

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exterior inspiration: For the Bruce’s new facade, architect Dumez took his inspiration from the striated walls of Connecticut’s plentiful rock quarries.

$58-million expansion will begin this spring and wind up by late 2020. (The museum will remain open for all but a few months of the expansion period.) “This is the big plan—to pivot,” Sutton says. No longer will museumgoers enter through the rear after “trudging like a Sherpa” from the parking lot below. The new hunk of Bruce Museum will be situated in front of the present one, close to Museum Drive, and thus become its new face and entrance. “There were a few things we thought were very problematic with the planning of the museum when we began the competition,” says architect Steve Dumez of the New Orleans firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, which bested thirty other top-notch firms for the job. “One was the north-facing entry and its relationship to I-95.” There’s only a narrow strip of brush and bramble separating the noisy interstate from the Bruce’s present front door. “The other was the fact that most visitors to the museum park at a lower elevation and then have to walk up the hill to the front door. And so creating a front door that was engaging and that connected the museum to the parkland around it was a critical priority for us.”

rest & refuel: For the first time, the Bruce Museum will have a café, where museum-goers can restore their energy and gaze at the parkland outside the tall windows. There will also be space for outdoor dining.

Built chiefly of cast stone and glass, the new Bruce will change appearance with the weather and time of day: In broad sunlight, it will resemble striated granite with transparent quartz embedded in it; at night it will look more like a block of shimmering aquamarine. Dumez, who earned his graduate degree at Yale, took his design cues from Connecticut’s geology and our ancestors’ handling of it. The Ice Age left our landscape strewn with granite, and old-time Connecticuters piled the boulders

into stone “fences” and quarried the large deposits, scraping out stone layer by layer. The striations left in the quarry walls abstractly resemble the facing of the new Bruce, and the glass portions of the facade abstractly resemble the “lace” effect of those mortarless stone walls. “The various patterns are going to cause shadows when the sunlight hits it at different angles,” Dumez says. “So something that is generally a uniform color will begin to look as though it’s a variety of different colors.” »

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—ANNE VON STUELPNAGEL, DIRECTOR OF EXHIBITIONS

Now let’s go inside. We walk through a broad glass entrance into a bright lobby— made the brighter by a courtyard in the center of the museum, lightly landscaped with stones and trees. To the right of the lobby is the museum store; to the left, a 240-seat lecture hall and a café. “You have only so much attention span—that’s why we’re having a café. You can go there, nosh and then get back on your museum feet,” Sutton remarks. “And there’s a patio on the outside that I’ve sold to a gentleman who imports Yellow Tail wine,” he adds, “sold”

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meaning solicited a donation to pay for it. The entry lobby will be dominated by a grand staircase—which Sutton thinks he has just sold. “I’ve spent a lot of time with my begging bowl,” he says with a quiet chuckle. (The funds for the new Bruce are being raised privately.) For a featured artwork in the lobby, Sutton hopes to acquire a painting by Sol LeWitt (1928– 2007), a maker of large, often boldly colorful minimalist paintings and sculptures. The choice would be appropriately fun and appropriately regional: LeWitt is one of

the two most celebrated Connecticut-born artists, the other being the nineteenth century landscape painter Frederic Church; both were born in Hartford. The staircase leads up to the mezzanine level, which looks down upon the lecture hall, and has a large conference room and ample art and science storage space. Then we rise to the third floor, with its sweeping views of Long Island Sound. The third floor will house all the art galleries—one very large gallery for changing exhibits and four medium-sized galleries for permanent exhibits. We need to linger over the latter fact. At present, the Bruce has precisely zero square feet devoted to its permanent art collection; the museum’s 15,000 art objects remain tucked away in the basement— marvelous pieces by William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, Gaston Lachaise, Andy Warhol, and the late Greenwich resident Robert Motherwell, to name but a few artists. (Pieces do ascend as parts of exhibitions, but mostly they stay out of view.) All of its art space is for temporary shows. Without permanent gallery space, Sutton says, “Teachers can’t set a curriculum based on the history of art, even though we have the objects to teach that story. We’re changing exhibits all the time.” The new permanent art galleries will allow the Bruce to showcase its collection; what’s more, the galleries will vault the Bruce into the front rank of American museums. How so? Great museum space attracts great donors, and that is exactly what’s happening at the Bruce. “This is one of the permanent galleries,” Sutton says, turning to a rendering of a pristine, high-ceilinged gallery with a David Hockney swimming pool painting on the wall. “It has been purchased by a local collector—and they’ve given us the collection.” His voice drops to a hush. “It’s worth more than this building.” This collection includes works by twentieth-century masters from Picasso to Francis Bacon to Alice Neel to Lucian Freud, and no less than sixteen Hockneys. “You give these to the Whitney or to the MOMA or to the Met, and they disappear into the

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basement,” Sutton says. “Here, they go on the walls.” Other big collectors have taken note. “We’ve gotten a Chinese collection. We’ve gotten an nineteenth- and twentiethcentury American collection that has nine Wyeths in it—and Homer, Hassam, Hopper, you name it. We’re going to be a major destination museum because of the new building.”

THE SCIENCE SIDE So far, we have dealt only with the art side of the Bruce. The Bruce’s first-ever exhibit, in 1912, featured the great painters of the Cos Cob art colony, but that legendary show did not set the museum’s course. What did set it was the Bruce’s first two directors, Edward Bigelow and Paul Howes, naturalists who (naturally) favored science exhibits and objects—including crowd-pleasing oddities like two-headed calfs. Bigelow and Howes would bring back exotic specimens, dead and alive, from their travels (including a parrot that cursed the children), and build superb dioramas: One depicted Greenwich’s

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woodlands as they looked 500 years ago. Howes excelled at taxidermy. The Bruce’s present science curator, Daniel Ksepka, delights in recounting Howes’ colorful history: “He would go out and shoot the bear, taxidermy the bear, skin it, rub arsenic in it, and he’d cast leaves and make a model tree. Then he’d get out his tools and build a case around it all.” The town, which owns the Bruce’s land, building and collection, did little to fund the museum, even denying it coal in winter. “It would get so cold that they would have to drain the fluids out of the specimen jars, so they wouldn’t freeze and explode,” Ksepka says. “Howes would carry a little stove around and use it to keep warm while he worked, and he’d take sips from a flask of whiskey. Bigelow was a teetotaler, so he was plenty warm with his strong peppermints.” Since the renovation of 1992, art has reaped the lion’s share of attention, and may always do so given the high-powered collectors who lend and donate to the Bruce. “Greenwich has the highest concentration

of private collectors of any burg in this country,” Sutton notes. “You can go from one gated community to the next, and there are just unbelievable collections here.” But in the new Bruce, he’s happy to say, science will prosper. All of the museum’s present gallery space will be devoted to science and natural history—a large changing gallery and three permanent galleries, plus a diorama room. (Because the new half of the Bruce will spill down the hill, the thirdfloor art galleries will join seamlessly with the existing galleries on the present ground floor.) Ksepka can hardly wait. “Right now, we’ve got a 500-square-foot temporarysized gallery, and we’re going up to 3,000 square feet. To me, it’s like getting the entire museum for a show.” The permanent gallery space will be enlarged as well, and completely redesigned, for a total of 6,800 square feet for science. “We’ll be able to let shows breathe more, to have bigger objects—a model of a great white shark, or a dinosaur skeleton,” Ksepka says. “We could actually fit that in the new building.” »

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“WE HAVE THINGS THAT ARE QUITE LITERALLY IRREPLACEABLE, AND THERE’S NO PRICE YOU CAN PUT ON THEM … BIRDS THAT ARE EXTINCT NOW. THERE’S NO CHANCE TO GET ANOTHER ONE.”

Ksepka has infused the Bruce Museum with a fresh science energy. Though only thirty-five years old, he is perhaps the world’s reigning penguin expert. In 2011 he was in on the discovery of an extinct giant penguin of the genus Kairuku, which means “diver who returns with food” in Maori. “He was about four and a half feet tall, probably weighing a little more than I do.” The fossilized bones were collected in New Zealand in 1977, but it took Ksepka to construct a full model of Kairuku, and thus to discover what had been discovered. Ksepka was also called in to solve the mystery of some large bird bones found in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1983. “They were bulldozing at an airport, and thank goodness whoever was operating the bulldozer noticed these bones coming out of the ground, and they stopped work.” The disconnected bones then spent decades filed away in the basement of the Charleston Museum. When Daniel assembled them, in 2014, he could hardly believe what he had: an ancient, toothy bird with a wingspan approaching twenty-four feet; it wandered the oceans like an albatross does, back when the Carolina coast was under water, some 25 million years ago. The discovery of Pelagornis sandersi took the bird world by storm. “As far as we know,” Ksepka says, “it’s the largest bird that ever flew.” He pauses, smiles. “Anything from a hummingbird to that, I’m interested in. I really like birds a lot.” In the expanded museum, he foresees a penguin exhibit first, eventually followed by a shark exhibit and a dinosaur exhibit “with a full-scale dinosaur skeleton going right down the middle.” He also sees a greater role for collecting—fossils, bones and cultural artifacts like pottery. As with the art side, there are already gems sequestered in the basement. “We have things that are quite literally irreplaceable, and there’s no price you can put on them, like passenger pigeon or a Carolina parakeet—birds that are extinct now. There’s no chance to get another one.” The new storage space will allow the science and natural history collections to

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grow (and so become a serious destination for researchers). “It would be a real shame if someone said, ‘Hey, I have an anaconda skin, do you want it?’ ‘No room!’ For me as a curator, getting the collection space expanded is so very important, because we’ve outgrown that little space we have. Hopefully, by the time I retire, I’ll leave a little space for the next person.” The Bruce’s education space will expand along with its exhibition and storage space. The museum draws a remarkable 25,000 students a year, chiefly to learn from the science and natural history exhibits. Sutton points to a floor plan of the new Bruce: “That will be the new educational wing—a whole separate section that’s devoted to education. Our classes are just booming now, because we got a grant from the Cohens—Steven and Alexandra Cohen,” he says, referring to the Greenwich hedge funder and his wife. “At this point we’re pretty maxed out— we can’t take anymore,” von Stuelpnagel

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adds. “But with more space, we can accommodate the demand and develop all sorts of art history courses.”

ON HAVING IT BOTH WAYS One imagines the Bruce’s dual mission—art and science—to be a curatorial burden, each side placing limitations on the other. Most museums get to concentrate all their energies in one field; they do not risk a split personality or a hodgepodge ambience. The Bruce Museum has tried hard, most would say successfully, to balance its two sides, and in recent years to circuit them together when a good idea presents itself. One recent exhibit, “Electric Paris,” nineteenth- century paintings featuring newfangled electric lighting, was paired with an exhibit called “Electricity,” about the science and history of electricity. But mostly the Bruce must be content to do two different things well. “We are old-fashioned in that regard,” Sutton says. “We’re kind of

a Kunst- und Wunderkammer”—a cabinet of art and (scientific) wonders. Is this a bad thing? Not at all. It’s what Charles Willson Peale had in mind when he founded the Philadelphia Museum in 1786. The portrait painter and naturalist sought to “bring forth into public view, the beauties of Art and Nature,” an enlightenment ideal that stressed a holistic view of creation—art being an expression of the divine, and nature being a revelation of it: God’s own art. That basic viewpoint, the interrelatedness of art and science, slowly fell by the wayside. In 1959 C. P. Snow spoke despairingly of the cultural split—the “gulf of mutual incomprehension” between artist-writer types and scientists. “But now everybody’s coming back to it,” Sutton observes. “Museums are coming back to bringing science and art together.” At long last, with a building to match its capabilities, the good old Bruce Museum G will be the hippest thing around.

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says broker Marshall Heaven of M. H. Heaven Real Estate in Greenwich. “Well, this vacancy factor is happening all over the country. If you go around to all the great-name streets in the

country, they’ve all got a ton of vacancies. There’s a major shift in retail taking place. How it sorts out, I don’t think anyone knows.” Part of the flux we’re witnessing, he says, is market correction: “The country is really overretailed. All the development that’s taken place in the past ten to twenty years, all the retail that was built—there’s too much of it, especially apparel.” And part of the flux is attributable to e-commerce, which represents not just a change in season, but a change

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in climate, a melting away of even the sturdiest landmarks. Ralph Lauren, in addition to closing Greenwich last year, also closed its sumptuous flagship on Fifth Avenue, and promptly set about exploring ways to expand its digital business. Around the country, store closings are outpacing store openings despite low unemployment and high consumer confidence. “This whole retail evolution that we’re going through right now is just taking its toll on the

Avenue, along with every other market in the United States,” says Jessica Curtis, senior managing director at Stamfordbased real estate broker Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. “It’s the Amazon effect, which we talk about all the time in my business.” Ron Brien adds: “I looked up a statistic—from 2010 to 2016, Amazon sales in North America increased five times, from $16 billion to $80 billion. Half of all households in the U.S. are Amazon subscribers now. I would say that 60 percent of the reason [for the vacancies] is due to Amazon.” But another factor is local. After the Avenue rebounded from the Great Recession, rents soared to record highs, “and in many cases, those rents may not have been sustainable,” Curtis says. Of course, brokers and landlords can’t know in advance when mega-trends like the corporate retail slump or the e-commerce boom will come knocking like the reaper on Greenwich Avenue doors. But now that the reaper is here, rents have begun to fall. A little. Do lower rents foreshadow a change in the Avenue’s composition—say, a return to the small businesses that once dominated it? “What I think’s going to happen is, more landlords are going to be forced to lower the rent, and you’re going to see a resurgence, a kind of déjà vu, of mom-and-pops and local retailers moving onto the Avenue,” Ron Brien says. “So the nationals kicked out all the mom-and-pops—and now I think they are going to get revenge. Landlords will have to lower their rents or stay empty.” If mom-and-pops do return, they won’t look much like those of our

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Do you remember Chance the Gardener? The childlike protagonist of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel Being There (played by Peter Sellers in the movie) is cast out of his secluded mansion existence and into the noisy world beyond its walls. Purely by accident, he finds safe harbor with mega-wealthy powerbroker Benjamin Rand and his wife, Eve. The Rands mistake Chance the Gardener for “Chauncey Gardiner”—the right sort of old-line name—and mistake his simple garden talk for optimistic parables about a troubled U.S. economy. “In a garden, things grow,” says Chance, “but first they must wither; trees have to lose their leaves in order to put forth new leaves, and to grow thicker and taller and stronger.” So what is the season on Greenwich Avenue, our great commercial garden? Why is it losing so many leaves? “There have never been so many storefronts for rent since the inception of Greenwich Avenue,” observes Ron Brien, a Greenwich real estate expert and founder of Alliance Commercial Property. “Even when the market crashed in 2008—there were vacancies, but nothing on this level.” Brien puts the number of empty storefronts on and near Greenwich Avenue at about thirty. Greenwich Avenue has always ebbed and flowed—mostly flowed. But last year, during a robust economy, it faltered, notably in the area of apparel. The great shock was the May departure of Ralph Lauren from its palatial digs at 265 Greenwich Avenue. Michael Kors, Janie and Jack, and Free People closed in the summer, and Claire’s and Calypso St. Barth went away in the fall. In January the trend continued, with the windows at Kate Spade and Lacoste going suddenly blank. And these are corporate retailers that should ordinarily be able to bear the Avenue’s heady cost of doing business. With rents ranging from about $70 to $150 per square foot, Greenwich Avenue ranks among the top five costliest streets in the country, up there with Fifth Avenue in New York and Sand Hill Road in San Francisco.

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parents’ days—the convenience store, the stationer, the fruit stand. Rather, they’ll be hip and creative, offering goods not readily available elsewhere and top-notch service. (Cos Cob’s foodie hub—first-rate cheese, meat, seafood shops—serves as a reminder that the Avenue once boasted such shops.) Jessica Curtis agrees that we could see more indies on the Avenue, but adds that favorable rents also encourage other trends: shops from the side streets upgrading to Greenwich Avenue; expansion by tenants already on the Avenue; and the arrival of “resort” brands from places like Aspen, Palm Beach and Nantucket. The vacancies are unsettling, but they are only part of the picture. Greenwich Avenue’s

overall complexion remains pink. Original boutiques like Copious Row, Greenwich-y big shots like Vineyard Vines, international players like Tiffany & Co. and Apple, and homegrown superstars like Betteridge, Manfredi, Richards, and Diane’s Books, among others, all are brimming with health. Alyssa Keleshian Bonomo, who owns several commercial properties downtown, observes that most Greenwich Avenue successes have three things in common: coveted merchandise, great service and an ability to connect with the community. “A lot of stores come to the Avenue, they open their doors, and they expect people to walk in,” she says. “It doesn’t work like that anymore.” One Avenue sector doing

especially well is restaurants. “That’s where people are spending their money—on dining out,” Brien says. Curtis notes that Millennials are contributing amply to this trend. “Young people would rather spend $100 to $150 on dinner than $100 and $150 on a sweater. They’re looking for experiences over the things.” The one conspicuous blank restaurant space on the Avenue—the former Morello Italian Bistro at 253 Greenwich Avenue, with its spectacular vaulted ceiling—may be filled by the time you read this. Douro is moving there from 363 Greenwich Avenue, a belowstreet-level space that it has outgrown. “It’s difficult to survive on the Avenue due to high rents,” Maria Correia, Douro’s managing

partner, says. “However, it appears that well-run restaurants are the exception. Our number one complaint from our guests is lack of parking.”

SOLUTIONS REQUIRE NEW THINKING GREENWICH AVENUE’S DOMINANT TREND IS STILL TOWARD THE RAREFIED. The Avenue earned its “Rodeo Drive East” label in the nineties, with the rising fortunes of Wall Street and the hedgies, and more specifically, with the arrival of the bronze-doored Saks Fifth Avenue on the old

some P&Z challenges that keep tenants out of the market,” Jessica Curtis says. “For example, I know of fitness uses that would like to be on the street, but it’s just not an option because of the parking challenges and zoning regulations.” Further, she says, “there are only so many spaces you can do restaurants in, because of the 400-foot liquor license rule.” Many consider the distance rule antiquated and would like to see it scrapped (as it has been elsewhere in town). “This would encourage more restaurants to come in that ordinarily

couldn’t get on the street,” Heaven says. “Remember, a lot of the buildings physically can’t handle restaurants, so it’s not going to be a Bourbon Street.” Alyssa Keleshian Bonomo adds, “What restaurants do is create engagement. They create community. They create vibrancy.” (She adds further that retailers and restaurants depend on the support of customers to create that vibrancy: In that sense, Greenwich Avenue is a two-way street.) Easing other regulations could help the Avenue blossom in novel ways. “We need to

have more experiences on the Avenue,” Keleshian Bonomo says. “But regulations won’t allow for it. Really, the town needs to understand the changing economy and the changing retail environment, and adapt to zoning regulations to allow for different kinds of uses—not just apparel. Basically, if you want to open an apparel shop, you’re good to go. Anyone else, you’ve got to go through an onerous process.” As things stand, regulations forbid such first-floor uses as pottery-making schools (now popular among children) and skincare clinics. And if one

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Woolworth’s site. That change seemed symbolic: We were leaving middle-class Greenwich Avenue behind. Now we have our Herméses and Teslas— though every now and again a more modest newcomer, like Skinny Pizza, happily alights. The mix is a sign of health. Still, as the retail climate evolves in ways that are largely hostile to brick-and-mortar stores, merchants, landlords and other stakeholders stress the role of creative planning in keeping the Avenue robust. A chief complaint is that Greenwich Avenue is overregulated. “There are definitely

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As the retail climate evolves in ways that are largely hostile to brick-andmortar stores, merchants, landlords and other stakeholders stress the role of creative planning in keeping the Avenue robust. wants to change the use of a space—say, from a clothing store to a café or a fitness studio—one must apply for a special permit that could eat up a lot of time, money and lost rent to obtain. Or fail to obtain. “That unpredictability is causing a lot of landlords and potential tenants to walk away,” says Paul Pugliese, cofounder of Greenwich Land Co. and a longtime member of the town’s Architectural Review Committee. Even an approval, he says, may come with burdensome restrictions, adding further stress to the process. (Katie DeLuca, the

town planner, is sensitive to these issues and has begun soliciting ideas to incorporate in the town’s upcoming Plan of Conservation and Development.) Parking is the perennial bugbear. While it’s generally agreed that we need more of it close to the Avenue, nobody wants to see more asphalt. Joe Tranfo, who owns several parcels on Benedict Place and Benedict Court, has a possible solution. His proposal is to build a park on the site of the Lewis Street-Benedict Place lot (behind J.Crew and Tiffany & Co.) with ample parking

underneath. He would also build a community center fronting the park on Benedict Place. In return, the town would allow him to construct housing and office space on Benedict Place and Benedict Court. Supporters of the plan say it would add welcome green space and encourage retail employees to stop parking on the Avenue—the cause of much block-circling traffic. Also, some of the housing would be classified as affordable, thus helping the town meet its affordable housing requirement. Critics say the new buildings would be

too bulky and would eradicate the charming carriage-house apartments that comprise Benedict Court, the little alleyway behind St. Mary Church. As we write, the plan is far from final; Tranfo seeks collaboration with the town on a version that benefits all. “I’m not the person who wants to force anything down the town’s throat,” says the longtime resident. “I want to be associated with something good.” Paul Pugliese mentions other inventive solutions he would support—constructing parking in the “bowl” of Havemeyer Field, and then putting the field back on top. A third idea, wilder still, would extend the Avenue’s commercial stretch onto Steamboat Road, alongside the Arch Street parking lot. Some variety of green space would go on the majority of the lot with parking underneath. This would accomplish two important goals: uniting Greenwich Avenue and Steamboat Road— especially desirable with an improved Bruce Museum in the offing—and banishing the dismal “sea of asphalt” that now greets visitors to central Greenwich. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. For now, Greenwich Avenue is between seasons. Nobody seriously believes it’s in decline. “Traveling around, one is hard-pressed to find a street as great as Greenwich Avenue, despite the for-rent signs in the windows you see now,” Marshall Heaven says. Once the market and rent corrections shake out, he and other experts say, the Avenue will continue to change in ways that are largely pleasing— new leaves, a better garden. G

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Art & Antiques ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 4380198. Tues.-Sun., noon-5 p.m.; Fri., until 8 p.m. AMY SIMON FINE ART, 1869 Post Rd. East, Westport, 2591500. Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m., or by appointment. BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376. Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., 1-5 p.m. Current exhibits: American Abstraction: The Print Revival of the 1960s and ‘70s, Treasures of the Earth: Mineral Masterpieces from the Robert R. Wiener Collection, Hot Art in a Cold War: Intersections of Art and Science in the Soviet Era. Free for members, $8 general admission. CANFIN GALLERY, 39 Main St.,Tarrytown, NY, 914-3324554. Tues.-Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appt. Fine paintings and sculptures by established and emerging contemporary artists from all over the world.

Michelangelo Sybil, mixed media, 53 x 32 in.

Gilles Clement Gallery The Gilles Clement Gallery will be hosting a new exhibit, Clement Kamena: ILLUSIONS. The show will be on view from Thursday, April 19 through Saturday, May 26 with an opening reception on April 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. Parisians who are now based in Westport, Serge Clement and Marina Kamena have been making collaborative art in the contemporized spirit of Renaissance ateliers for over twenty years—a prolific body of work that reflects the couple’s dynamic and creative approach. The show will include a diverse range of paintings, sculpture and mixed media constructions that share the theme of illusion and perspective. In their inventive “Jar Memory” series, iconic art works from all periods are preserved in the form of the equally iconic Mason jar. The gallery is located at 45 East Putnam Avenue in Greenwich. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. ( for more events visit greenwichmag.com )

CAVALIER GALLERIES, 405 Greenwich Ave., 869-3664. Mon.-Sat., 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., noon-5 p.m., or by appt. A showcase of a select group of established and emerging artists who represent the finest in modern painting, sculpture and photography. CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING, 299 West Ave., Norwalk, 899-7999. Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., noon-5 p.m. CLAY ART CENTER, 40 Beech St., Port Chester, NY, 914-937-2047. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. or by appt. DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM, 4450 Park Ave., Bridgeport, 372-3521. Tues.-Sat. 10

a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m. The Discovery Museum’s 20,000-square-foot facility includes changing and permanent interactive exhibit galleries, a planetarium, Challenger Learning Center, an auditorium and five multipurpose classrooms where hands-on science classes are conducted for schools, groups and the general public. FAIRFIELD MUSEUM AND HISTORY CENTER, 370 Beach Rd., Fairfield, 259-1598. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat.Sun., noon-4 p.m. FLINN GALLERY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 622-7947. Mon.Wed., Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thurs. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. GERTRUDE G. WHITE GALLERY, YWCA, 259 E. Putnam Ave., 8696501. Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Showing in April: Story’s In Nature, What’s Your Favorite Place? with works by AnnaMaria Strömberg. Opening reception, Sat. March 31 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. GREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL, 299 Greenwich Ave., 862-6750. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon-4 p.m. The Bendheim Gallery hosts major exhibitions every six weeks; visit greenwicharts. org to learn about upcoming exhibits. GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 39 Strickland Rd., 869-6899. Wed.-Sun., noon-4 p.m. See highlight on page 141. J. RUSSELL JINISHIAN GALLERY, 1657 Post Rd., Fairfield, 259-8753. Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Large selection of original

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CALENDAR marine and sporting art by Christopher Blossom, Frederick Cozzens, Donald Demers, William Duffy, Carl Evers, Flick Ford, James Griffiths, Russ Kramer and many others. KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, Rte. 22 at Jay St., Katonah, NY, 914-232-9555. Tues.-Fri. and Sun., 1-5 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. KENISE BARNES FINE ART, 1947 Palmer Ave., Larchmont, NY, 914-834-8077. Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., or by appt. Visit kbfa.com for show information. LOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSION MUSEUM, 295 West Ave., Norwalk, 838-9799. Wed.-Sun., noon-4 p.m. Visit lockwoodmathewsmansion .com for program information. LOFT ARTISTS ASSOCIATION, 575 Pacific

St., Stamford, 247-2027 or loftartists.com. Gallery open Saturdays and Sundays 1- 4:30 p.m. MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. Daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The Maritime Aquarium inspires people of all ages to appreciate and protect the Long Island Sound ecosystem and the global environment through living exhibits, marine science and environmental education. MICHAEL FLORIO GALLERY, 135 Mason Street, 8585743. Specializing in established and emerging contemporary artists, marine art and curiosities. Open most days by chance or by appointment, Michaelflorio.com.

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Focus on French Cinema presented by the Alliance Française of Greenwich will celebrate the fourteenth annual festival of French-language films from around the world on Friday, April 27 through Tuesday, May 1. The Opening Night Cocktail Dînatoire at Harvest Wine Bar will be followed by a film screening at Bow Tie Cinemas on Railroad Avenue. The weekend in Greenwich will feature over a dozen newly released films. FFC2018 will then travel to the Avon in Stamford for a Monday, April 30 pre-screening party and film and will close in Manhattan at the French Institute Alliance Française with a screening and Closing Night Gala. For more information visit focusonfrenchcinema.com.

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NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase, NY, 914-251-6100. Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Greenwich Daffodil Society will host its sixtieth annual Connecticut Daffodil Show at Christ Church Greenwich (254 E. Putnam Avenue) on Wednesday, April 25 and 26. The show is free and open to the public, to enter email greenwichdaffodilsociety@gmail.com.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, Bronx River Pkwy. and Fordham Rd., 718-8178616. Tues.-Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sun. 1-22, The Orchid Show. This year celebrates its sixteenth year at The New York Botanical Garden.

PELHAM ART CENTER, 155 Fifth Ave., Pelham, NY, 914-738-2525 ext. 113. Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. noon-4 p.m. ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER, 145 Rowayton Ave., Rowayton, 866-2744. Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m.; Sun., 1-4 p.m. SAMUEL OWEN GALLERY, 382 Greenwich Ave., 4226500 or 325-1924. Mon.-Sat.,

10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., 11-3 p.m. The gallery is committed to exhibiting the work of emerging to mid-career artists, as well as a variety of strong secondary market works. SILVERMINE ARTS CENTER, 1037 Silvermine Rd., New Canaan, 966-9700. Wed.-Sat., noon-5 p.m.; Sun., 1-5 p.m. SM HOME GALLERY, 70 Arch Street, Greenwich,

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Concerts, Film & Theater ARENA AT HARBOR YARD, 600 Main St., Bridgeport, 345-2300. Visit websterbankarena.com for shows and times.

Shatterproof On Tuesday, April 17 the second annual A Chefs’ Tasting to Benefit Shatterproof, will be held at Richards (359 Greenwich Avenue) from 6 to 9 p.m. The evening will showcase some of Fairfield County and Westchester’s finest chefs and restaurants to support Shatterproof’s mission of battling the epidemic of addiction. Tickets may be purchased at shatterproof.org/spbenefit.

629-8121, Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appointment. Featuring award-winning regional and national contemporary artists. Visit sandramorganinteriors.com for exhibit information. See highlight on page 141. STAMFORD ART ASSOCIATION, 39 Franklin St., Stamford, 325-1139. Thurs.-Fri., 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon-3 p.m. Nineteenth Annual Vivian & Stanley Reed Marine Show coming in May. STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521. Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.5 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. THOMAS J. WALSH GALLERY, Fairfield University, 1073 N. Benson Rd., Fairfield, 254-4000, ext. 2969. Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m.5 p.m.; Sun., noon-4 p.m.

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AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER, 272 Bedford St., Stamford, 661-0321. Visit avontheatre.org for special events and guests speakers. THE CHAMBER PLAYERS OF THE GREENWICH SYMPHONY, Sun. 29, Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Rd., 4 p.m.; Mon. 30, Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Dr., 7:30

p.m., 622-6611. Adult tickets $30; student tickets $5. Visit greenwichsymphony.org for special performances. CURTAIN CALL, The Sterling Farms Theatre Complex, 1349 Newfield Ave., Stamford, 329-8207. Sun. 1-28, Annie. Visit curtaincallinc.com for venue and times. DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE, 263 Golden Hill St., Bridgeport, 576-1636. Sun. 1-8, Jesus Christ Superstar, Visit dtcab.com for show times. EDGERTON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Ave., Fairfield, 371-7908. FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY, on StageOne, 70 Sanford St., Fairfield, 259-

1036. Visit fairfieldtheatre.org for dates, shows and times. GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE, 6 Main St., East Haddam, 860-873-8668. Fri. 13-June 21, The Will Rogers Follies. GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 6227900. Friends Friday Films: Fri. 6, Say Anything; Fri. 11, Suffragette; Fri. 20, Angels in the Outfield; Fri. 27, Paris Can Wait; all films are free. GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Greenwich High School, Sat. 14 at 8 p.m. and Sun. 15 at 4 p.m., the orchestra will perform Violin Concerto by Hoffer and Romance No.2 by Beethoven with the celebrated Elmar Oliveira as soloist. A free pre-concert lecture will be held one hour before each performance. Adult tickets

UCONN STAMFORD ART GALLERY, One University Pl., Stamford, 251-8400. Mon.Thurs. 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. WESTPORT ARTS CENTER, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport, 226-7070. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.4 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon4 p.m. YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven, 432-2800. Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., noon-5 p.m. Permanent collection on view. YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven, 432-0611. Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thurs., until 8 p.m.; Sun., 16 p.m. Permanent collection includes African art, American decorative art, American paintings and sculpture, ancient art, Asian art, coins and medals, and modern and contemporary art.

Cochairs with their children, who are clients of Abilis: Martha and Ross Perry of New Canaan, Adriana Ospina and her daughter Alejandra Martinez of Stamford, Ali and Fran Cohen of Weston, and Diego Rabellino and Daniella Mini of Greenwich.

Abilis Abilis, a nonprofit organization that provides services and support for individuals with special needs and their families, will hold its Spring for Abilis gala event on Saturday, April 28 at 7 p.m., at Wee Burn Country Club in Darien. The evening will include cocktails, dinner, dancing, and a silent and live auction. Tickets are $350 and all proceeds support Abilis and its services. Registration for the event is available at 501auctions.com/ spring4abilis.

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CALENDAR SHUBERT THEATER, 247 College St., New Haven, 5625666. Visit shubert.com for dates and show times.

JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER, 364 Manville Rd., Pleasantville, NY, 914-7737663. Visit website for titles and times burnsfilmcenter .org.

STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford, 325-4466. Visit stamfordcenterforthearts .org for more shows, dates and times.

LONG WHARF THEATRE, 222 Sargent Dr., New Haven, 787-4282. For show information on the 2018 season or to purchase tickets, visit longwharf.com. RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, 438-9269. For shows and times visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org. RIDGEFIELD THEATER BARN, 37 Halpin Ln., Ridgefield, 431-9850. True West coming in June.

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE, 25 Powers Ct., Westport, 227-4177. Thurs. 12, Love Letters with Alec Baldwin and Kelli O’hara, 7 p.m.

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ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-0198. Tues.-Sun. noon-5 p.m.; Fri. until 8 p.m. Fri. 6, First Fridays: A Contemporary Cocktail Party with live music, 7-9 p.m.; visit aldrichart .org for more information. AUDUBON GREENWICH, 613 Riversville Rd., 869-5272. Sun. 1, First Sunday Bird Walk at Greenwich Point, 9-11 a.m. AUX DÉLICES, 231 Acosta St., Stamford, 326-4540, ext. 108. Wed. 11, Italian; Wed. 25, Chicken, Chicken, Chicken!; classes 7-9:30 p.m. BOWMAN OBSERVATORY PUBLIC NIGHT, NE of Milbank/East Elm St. rotary on the grounds of Julian Curtiss School, 869-6786, ext. 338. Wed. 4 and 18, Observatory open to the

Left: New York New York by Jerry Garcia

For a limited showing, C. Parker Gallery in Greenwich will host From the Vault—The Art of Jerry Garcia & The Grateful Dead, Thursday, April 19 through Sunday April, 29. The show is a specially curated, limited showing of some of the most compelling and rare artwork and photographs from the iconic band, The Grateful Dead. Items in the exhibit include original and hand-signed artwork from Jerry Garcia and other band members such as Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, as well as photographs from Baron Wolman, first chief photographer from Rolling Stone magazine. Jerry Garcia’s personal items such as his briefcase, black T-shirt and leather chair will also be on display and for sale. Admission is free.

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Breast Cancer Alliance Breast Cancer Alliance will open the runway on Sunday, April 22 to twenty local students who will strut their stuff in fabulous fashions from Richards to benefit the Junior BCA Committee. Schools represented include Bronxville High School, Brunswick School, Fox Lane High School, Greens Farms Academy, Greenwich Academy, Greenwich High School and Sacred Heart Greenwich. Funds raised support breast health services for underserved women throughout Connecticut and Westchester. Richards, 359 Greenwich Avenue, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 per student, $75 per adult, breastcanceralliance.org.

public free of charge, 8-10 p.m., weather permitting. Sponsored by the Astronomical Society of Greenwich. BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. The museum offers docent-led tours, family gallery tours and toddler tours; visit brucemuseum.org for details. CLAY ART CENTER, 40 Beech St., Port Chester, NY, 914-937-2047. Clay Art Center’s mission is to offer a

stimulating space for studio practice, exhibition and educational opportunities to better serve the community. CONNECTICUT CERAMICS STUDY CIRCLE, Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Dr. Mon. 9, The Most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon: Sir Hans Sloane’s Botanical Treasures on Chelsea Porcelain with Sally KevillDavies, writer, researcher and author, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. For reservations and information: marylin.chou@ gmail.com or 863-9655.

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River House Adult Day Center’s 24th Annual

Garden Party Thursday, April 26th, 2018 Riverside Yacht Club

Luncheon Fashion Show featuring designs by Olivine Gabbro Silent Auction Join us for an unforgettable afternoon that will benefit the aging adults and caregivers in our community. Tickets can be purchased online at www.theRiverHouse.org. 125 River Road Extension l Cos Cob, CT 06807 l (203) 622-0079

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The Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic Street, Stamford CT 06901 To purchase tickets online go to www.InspiricaCT.org/spring-soiree To become an event sponsor, reserve your tickets or for more information, contact Diane Pauley (203) 388-0187 or dpauley@inspiricaCT.org

CALENDAR FAIRFIELD MUSEUM AND HISTORY CENTER, 370 Beach Rd., Fairfield, 2591598. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon-4 p.m. Visit fairfieldhistory.org for tours. GARDEN EDUCATION CENTER, 130 Bible St., 8699242 or gecgreenwich.org. Pruning class, plant doctor series, fruit tree grafting and more. Visit website for classes, dates and times. Preregistration required online. GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 6227900. The library offers a variety of programs: Blood Pressure Screenings, Drop-In Computer Lab, Chess Club, Volunteer Tax Assistance, Foreign Affairs Book Discussion Group; for dates and

times visit greenwichlibrary .org. KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, 26 Bedford Rd., Chappaqua, NY, 914-2329555. Guided tours are Tuesday through Sunday at 2:30 p.m. STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521. Mon.Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday night Observatory Visitors’ Night, 8:30 p.m.

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Greenwich Historical Society On Sunday, April 29 the Greenwich Historical Society will hosts its annual Landmark Recognition Reception to honor distinctive properties for preserving the town’s architectural legacy. The afternoon event will be held at Greenwich Country Club from 4 to 6 p.m. Properties include: The Second Congregational Church, and three distinctive residential properties in Greenwich and Old Greenwich, including Northway, one of Greenwich’s Great Estates. Anthony Malkin, chairman and chief executive officer of Empire State Realty Trust, will present a talk on the restoration of the Empire State Building. A champagne reception will precede the program. Tickets are $75; $250 for Patron level; $500 for Benefactor level. Advance reservations are required. Reserve at: greenwichhistory.org or call 203-8696899, ext. 10.

Katherine Evans, Drink Your Fill of Golden Sunshine III, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 48”

SM Home Gallery Join the ladies of Sandra Morgan Interiors & SM Home Gallery (70 Arch Street in Greenwich) for a colorful new exhibit, First Blush: The Joy of Beginnings. The show runs from Thursday, May 3 through Saturday, June 16 with an opening night reception on Thursday, May 3 from 6 to 8 p.m.

AMERICAN RED CROSS RED AND WHITE BALL, NetJets Hangar at the Westchester County Airport. Sat. 28, fine wine and food, music and dancing, and live and silent auctions, 6 p.m.midnight. THE FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS ANNUAL LUNCHEON, Hyatt Regency Greenwich. Thurs. 5, Keynote speaker Billie Jean King. Celebrate making an

important difference for thousands of women and girls throughout Fairfield County, learn about the fund’s work, and hear from women who have benefited from their support, 11:30 a.m. For more information visit fccfoundation.org. GREENWICH BOAT SHOW, Sat. 7 and 8, The show will be held on the Mianus River in Cos Cob, boaters are invited to walk the docks and go

out on the open waters of Long Island Sound. The show features boats by Chris Craft, Tiara, Hinckley, Back Cove, Southport Boats and Hunt Yachts, Edgewater, Scout, Grady White, Pursuit, Boston Whaler, Regulator, World Cat, Sea Fox, Sea Ray, Monterey, Carolina Cat, Chaparral, Regal and pontoon brands. greenwichboatshow.com, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. GREENWICH SYMPHONY

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Kid Stuff APRIL 2018

ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-4519. Tues.-Sun. noon5 p.m.; Fri. until 8 p.m. Sat. 21, Family Art Experiences, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. AUDUBON GREENWICH, 613 Riversville Rd., 8695272. Sun. 1, bundle up for the first Sunday Bird Walk, Tod’s Point, 9 a.m.

Open Arts Alliance Open Arts Alliance presents Into The Woods Jr. at The Cole Auditorium at Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Sat. 28 at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20. For more information contact Rocco Natale, rocco.natale@gmail.com, 203-202-2147, OpenArtsAlliance.com.

GALA, Greenwich Country Club. Sat. 28, Enjoy cocktails, dinner, dancing and silent auction, to benefit Young People’s Concert program in Greenwich schools, 7 p.m. For information email gsorch@ verizon.net. PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND, The Stamford Marriott. Wed. 4, PPSNE will hold its annual benefit luncheon. The event brings together PPSNE supporters from all across Fairfield County. Keynote speaker will be Faye Wattleton. The 2018 Community Impact Award will go to Mary and Jim Himes. To register or make a contribution online, go to www.ppsne.org/ springluncheon or contact

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Laurie Diorio at laurie. diorio@ppsne.org or 2037542-2813. YWCA GREENWICH LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE GALA, Hyatt Regency Greenwich. Fri. 6 at 6:30 p.m. For more information visit ywcagreenwich.org/Gala.

Coming in early May CONNECTICUT AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE LUNCHEON, Greenwich Country Club. May 1, Fundraising luncheon to benefit (CAGV), 11:30 a.m. For more information visit cagc.org.

AUX DÉLICES, 23 Acosta St., Stamford, 326-4540 ext. 108. Sun. 15, Your Turn to Make Dinner; all classes 4-6 p.m. BEARDSLEY ZOO, 1875 Noble Ave., Bridgeport, 3946565. Open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Learn about many endangered and threatened species, which include the Amur (Siberian) tiger, Andean condor, Ocelot, Red wolf, Andean (spectacled) bear, Maned wolf, and Golden lion tamarin. BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH, 4 Horseneck Lane, 869-3224. Visit bgcg .org for upcoming events and programs at the club. BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Visit brucemuseum.org for updated classes and exhibits and after school and vacation workshops. DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM, 4450 Park Ave., Bridgeport, 372-3521. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.5 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m. The museum’s 20,000-squarefoot facility includes changing and permanent interactive exhibit galleries, a planetarium, Challenger Learning Center, an auditorium and five multipurpose classrooms where hands-on science

classes are conducted for schools, groups and the general public. DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE, 263 Golden Hill St., Bridgeport, 576-1636. Sat. 14-May 20, Sleeping Beauty. EARTHPLACE, 10 Woodside Lane, Westport, 227-7253. The mission of Earthplace is to build a passion within the community for nature and the environment through education, experience and action, earthplace.org. GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 39 Strickland St., 869-6899. April vacation workshops, visit hstg.org for more details. GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 622-7900. The library offers many programs for children: Wee Ones, Tales for Tots, Baby Lapsit, Mother Goose Story Time, call or visit greenwichlibrary.org for dates and times. IMAX THEATER AT MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. For special documentaries and Hollywood films on IMAX, check website for films and times, maritimeaquarium.org. KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, Rte. 22 at Jay St., Katonah, NY, 914-232-9555. Tues.-Fri. and Sun. 1-5 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays for Tots, 1 p.m; Picture This! Saturday Story Time, select Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. Daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The Maritime Aquarium inspires people of all ages to appreciate and protect the Long Island Sound ecosystem and the global environment through living exhibits, marine science and environmental education.

NEW CANAAN NATURE CENTER, 144 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, 966-9577. Visit newcanaannature.org to learn about their monthly Friday Family Fun Night. RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, 438-5795. Sat. 21, Huck & Tom and the Mighty Mississippi, 11 a.m. Visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org for more show information. STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford, 3254466. Thurs. 5, Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site, 4 p.m., Sun. 8, Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers, 3 p.m. STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521 or stamfordmuseum.org. Mon.Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri. 6, 20 and 27, Observatory Nights, 8:30 p.m.; Sun. 8, 15, 22, 29, April Adventures, 1- 4 p.m.; Tues. 10, 11, 12, Family Take a Hike Week; for ongoing programs visit stamfordmuseum.org STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN, 303 West Ave., Mathews Park, Norwalk, 8990606. Daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Ongoing exhibits: Energy Lab, Tot Town, build it!, state-of-the-art Multimedia Gallery and Light Gallery; Ongoing events: science lab, community gardens; Rainforest Adventures and Color Coaster; visit steppingstonesmuseum.org for daily classes and times. WESTPORT ARTS CENTER, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport, 222-7070. Visit westportartscenter.org to sign up for workshops and summer camps. WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE, 25 Powers Ct., Westport, 227-4177. Sun. 15, How I Became a Pirate, 1 and 4 p.m. G

INDEX OF ADVERTISERS BUILDING & HOME IMPROVEMENT Amanda Martocchio Architecture . . . . 51 Austin Patterson Disston Architects . . 79 California Closets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Charles Hilton Architects . . . . . . . . . . 47 Clarke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Davenport Contracting . . . . . . . . . . 45 Douglas VanderHorn Architects . . . . . . 21 Grand Entrance Gates . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Granoff Architects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Neil Hauck Architects . . . . . . . . Cover 3 Robert A. Cardello Architecture + Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Sound Beach Partners . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Walpole Outdoors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

BUSINESS & FINANCE Citibank/Perry Gaa & Joseph Potvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Cummings & Lockwood LLC . . . . . . . . 14 First Republic Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 GuardHill Financial Corp./William P. Man & Michael Daversa. . . . . . . . 49

DECORATING & HOME FURNISHINGS Amy Aidinis Hirsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Joe Ginsberg Interior Design . . . . . . . . 14 Oomph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Rinfret, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Sandra Morgan Interiors . . . . . . . . . . 73

EDUCATION & CHILDREN Greewich Ballet Academy . . . . . . . . . 87

ENTERTAINMENT 95.9, The Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Anything Goes with Kim Berns . . . . . 102 Stamford Tent & Event Services . . . . . 82

EVENTS A Benefit For Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County . . . . . . 132 A-list Awards 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 The Alzheimer's Association Connecticut Chapter Sixth Annual Celebrating Hope 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Best of Greenwich . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Best of the Gold Coast . . . . . . . . . . 117 Cinco de Derby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 CT Against Gun Violence Annual Benefit Luncheon . . . . . . . . . . . 139

End Allergies Together/An Evening to EAT Honoring Robyn O'Brien . . . . . 127 Faifield County's Community Foundation Giving Day Thank You . . 115 The Garden Education Center of Greenwich/Frolic in the Forest/ May Market Month . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Global Citizens Initiative and Matsui 55 Baseball Foundation Present Champion A Champion Inaugural Golf Classic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Greenwich Town Party . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Inspirica Sping Soirée . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Luncheon Featuring Melissa Ben-Ishay to Benefit Neighbor to Neighbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Moffly Media's 2018 Event Lineup . . . 119 River House Adult Day Center's 24th Annual Garden Party . . . . . . . . . . 140 Shatterproof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 SoundWaters Tall Ships Ball . . . . . . . 135 Spring for Abilis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 The Tree Party Save the Date . . . . . . 126 Whitby School Presents An Evening with Dr. Delaney Ruston . . . . . . . 135 Women in Business 2018 . . . . . . . 66, 67 YWCA Greenwich Old Bags Luncheon . . 133

FASHION Lester's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Richards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 3 Roundabout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

FOOD, CATERING & LODGING Alba's Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Greenwich Staffing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 The J House Greenwich . . . . . . . . . . . 61 JK Chef Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Marcia Selden Catering & Events . . . . . 81

HEALTH & BEAUTY Caron Renaissance Ocean Drive . . . . . 37 Greenwich Dental Group/David A. Zadik, DDS and Steven Altman DMD, FAGD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 The Nathaniel Witherell . . . . . . . . . . . 77 NicholsMD of Greenwich . . . . . . . . . . 75 Park Avenue Vein Laser Center . . . . . . 111 Rye Vein Laser Center . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Yale NewHaven Health/ Greenwich Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

JEWELRY Betteridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover 4, 25

Graff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Steven Fox Jewelry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

LANDSCAPING, NURSERY & FLORISTS Sam Bridge Nursery & Greenhouses, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Susan Cohen Landscape Architect . . . 80

NONPROFIT The Elephant Sanctuary . . . . . . . . . 102 Junior League of Greenwich . . . . . . . 137

REAL ESTATE Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices/ New England Properties . . . . . . . . 10 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices/ New England Properties/ Giselle Gibbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Coldwell Banker Global Luxury/ Kaye Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Coldwell Banker Global Luxury/ Tamar Lurie Group . . . . . . . . . 28, 29 David Ogilvy & Associates . . . . Cover 2, 1 Douglas Elliman Real Estate . . . . 17, 18, 19 Halstead Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Houlihan Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 New England Land Company Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Related Properties Corporation . . . . . 53 Sotheby's International Realty . . . . 22, 23 Sotheby's International Realty/ Joseph Barbieri . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 William Raveis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 5 William Raveis/ Janet Milligan Associates . . . . . . . . 13

REAL ESTATE/DESTINATION Business Development Board of Palm Beach County . . . . . . . . . . . Maury People/Sotheby's International Realty . . . . . . . . . . . McLean Faulconer Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . Watermark Pointe . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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SPORTS & FITNESS Chelsea Piers Athletic Club . . . . . . . . 63

TRANSPORTATION Rudy's Executive Transportation . . . . . 81

MISCELLANEOUS Big Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Greenwich Sentinel . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Westy Self Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 APRIL 2018 GREENWICH

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hen Zino and Ashley Carr were on their way to Easter brunch at Indian Harbor last year, they pulled over in Bruce Park to look for the Easter bunny, who daughter Nuala was convinced was hiding somewhere in the park. She paused her hunt for a brief moment to feed the horse sculpture. Apparently, in her estimation he needed a good meal. Reaching up the almost three-year-old offered a flower saying, “Here, you’re too skinny.” G

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