Their beach home is a driveway
In the Hamptons, a family sees a strip of land as its legacy.
From The Times
September 9, 2025

Tucked among exclusive real estate in the Hamptons, an 18-foot-wide strip of land is all that remains of one family’s oceanfront property.

A man wearing a bucket hat, a gray T-shirt and green shorts standing at the edge of a sandy strip of land that is marked on either side by turquoise poles. He has one hand resting on a pole and behind him are multistory beach houses.

Here’s how they came to see this driveway as their legacy. →

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