The Hamptons do not belong to the vulgar jet set and beuglants students

OF OUR NEW YORK OFFICE.

Tender is the night... Not always on the shores of the Hamptons, where yet come from the couple having served as a model to Dick and Nicole Driver, the hero of the novel by Scott Fitzgerald. This evening of July 2001, Lizzie Grubman, a famous impresario of starlets, is exceeded: the bouncer of a nightclub to East Hampton asked him to move his 4 4 a few metres because it bar a relief route. Shouting, it goes back in his Mercedes, initiates the reverse and it is the disaster. She ran into the queue and pulling the arms and legs of about fifteen people: youth Golden New York, the Hamptons are the Beach over the weekend, is broken. The Internet bubble burst for a long time, but the hypertrophy of the me is still diagnosed too often by the therapists in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The case will be the summer on the tabloid, a chance to wonder about the arrogance of the "rich and famous" in New York. But also on what became the Hamptons.

Plush villages

For the geographer, the Hamptons are a short strip of land gaps of ponds Redskins sounding as Sagaponack stretching from Hampton Bays in Montauk, on the edge of Long Island. Plush villages there are protected from the Atlantic Ocean by sloping dune. Far and away, homes to the unmistakable charm "sixties" come curl to all their alveoli oriented the beach which is accessed by a path of slabs in opus incertum. In summer, the moist heat of the region and the high waves coming if crush on fine sand envelop the shoreline of a haze that mutes the Cree, Thames Sun and blurs the edges of the gigantic buildings that exceed clumps of grass over the sand. Austere color and sometimes angled architecture, these stately homes take respect their (remote) neighbourhood.

But he must look at things in the face: the physical charm of the region are interested in a minority of its visitors. The Hamptons are a kind of faubourg Saint-Germain modern in edge of sea and Ralph Lauren, and it is for their social life is the two-hour journey by train, bus, car, jet, according to , separating them from New York. Each his circles: how would it be otherwise since a House it is true of several tens of rooms is there rents sometimes 150,000 dollars for the month of July or August Quogue and Hampton Bays are frequented by students girls there down the train after learning on their laptop that the House where they go is home to eight boys to girls and to be commended: "I love this ratio." Southampton is the benchmark of fortunes inherited; Bridgehampton, one of the most rich and East Hampton, a really rich, said. Wall Street is the first to be discharge every weekend of summer, each according to his rank, but always in the "saddening proximity of millionaires", as said Fitzgerald. It signs even of "mega-deals": Wilbur Ross, the banker nicknamed the "King of bankruptcy", there would be near Northrop Grumman, military industry. It is true that nearby resident best lawyers, the rich investors and major patterns of the country.

To all Hamptoniens, it is fashionable, in any case, to regret the Hamptons of before, those of the first half of the last century. At that time, the senior ranks of the company received the best artists: Cole Porter, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dorothy Parker... The Hamptons do not belong to the vulgar jet - set and beuglants students... Can we still find this imaginary world is the inventing along the dunes. Gerald and Sara Murphy, models of "Tender is the night" in which life has ultimately not much smiled, did said not that "only those invented our life have had a some sense".