Be Our Guest: The Hamptons hotel scene heats up for summer

Be Our Guest: The Hamptons hotel scene heats up for summer

Last year was a tough one for commercial real estate, and those headwinds blew all the way out to Montauk. Unlike the previous few summers, which saw quite a few new Hamptons hotel openings, this year is relatively quiet.  But 2024 still promises to be an exciting season in the Hamptons, with several notable debuts, … Read more

‘Riverdale’ alum Madelaine Petsch on her chilling vacation thriller ‘The Stranger’

‘Riverdale’ alum Madelaine Petsch on her chilling vacation thriller ‘The Stranger’

New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. “I spent six months trying to relearn things I actually like in my own life,” says Madelaine Petsch, who played venomous queen bee Cheryl Blossom on teen drama “Riverdale” for its seven bonkers seasons. Including the color red: … Read more

‘GMA’ co-anchor George Stephanopoulos on his favorite Hamptons haunts

‘GMA’ co-anchor George Stephanopoulos on his favorite Hamptons haunts

Viewers are used to seeing George Stephanopoulos in a suit and tie on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “This Week,” but even the former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton sometimes trades his wingtips for docksiders. He and his wife — actress-comedian-author Ali Wentworth, 59 — have been summering in the Hamptons for 22 years … Read more

New restaurants ready to make some noise in Hamptons — as locals try to silence Zero Bond

New restaurants ready to make some noise in Hamptons — as locals try to silence Zero Bond

New restaurants are ready to swing open their doors in the Hamptons this summer – even as the East End’s notorious noise police look to keep Big Apple hotspot Zero Bond from gaining a foothold. The roster of new ventures include Italian and French eateries from veteran restaurant operators in East Hampton, an upscale tavern … Read more

Think the ‘Real Housewives’ are double-dealing vicious backstabbers? Meet the cut-throat realtors of ‘Selling the Hamptons’

Think the ‘Real Housewives’ are double-dealing vicious backstabbers? Meet the cut-throat realtors of ‘Selling the Hamptons’

When Hamptons real estate agent Peggy Zabakolas pulled up to her $20 million Watermill listing — Eagle’s Point, a hidden gem situated at the highest elevation in the area — last summer, she caught another broker red-handed. Fellow Nest Seekers agent JB Andreassi, 33, was trying to steal the listing for the seven-acres compound by … Read more

New Yorkers vote on biggest ripoffs in NY — and the Hamptons takes the cake: survey

New Yorkers vote on biggest ripoffs in NY — and the Hamptons takes the cake: survey

New Yorkers consider the Hamptons the Empire State’s biggest ripoff, a new survey says. Over 40% of approximately 5,000 polled New Yorkers think the Hamptons is the attraction that’s least worth the price, followed by the Empire State Building (31%) and the Statue of Liberty (14%), according to a Casino.org study.  Almost half of those … Read more

Rich teens are invading ritzy NYC restaurants — and they’re spending big

Rich teens are invading ritzy NYC restaurants — and they’re spending big

Whatever you do, don’t offer them a kiddie menu. All over the Hamptons and Manhattan, tweens and teens are going out to posh restaurants on their own. They’re running up high checks ordering uni and steaks — and sometimes trying to sneak in a pricey bottle of vino — then plunking down mommy and daddy’s … Read more

 Owner of NY cafe loved by celebs allegedly ‘spanked,’ ‘groped’ workers

 Owner of NY cafe loved by celebs allegedly ‘spanked,’ ‘groped’ workers

For the last decade, celebs and tourists have flocked to Marie Eiffel’s eponymous French market on Shelter Island for croissants, baguettes and Marseille-style bouillabaisse. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jessica Chastain visited, and Christy Brinkley raved about it on social media after enjoying tarte tatin and pommes frites al fresco in 2020. But, now, former employees are … Read more

Hampton Jitney is now ‘disgusting, like taking an old Greyhound bus’

Hampton Jitney is now ‘disgusting, like taking an old Greyhound bus’

Kylie Cawley, a 26-year-old who lives in Soho and works in advertising, used to love taking the Hampton Jitney to her family’s place in Southampton nearly every weekend in the summer. “It was such a fun experience. The crowd was great,” she told The Post. “On one trip, the girl I was sitting next to … Read more

The Sacklers try a comeback: Despised opioids clan hit society parties

The Sacklers try a comeback: Despised opioids clan hit society parties

Being a Sackler is not what it used to be. Prior to 2019, when a slew of lawsuits maintaining that the billionaire clan had profited from the opioid crisis that the family’s Purdue Pharma allegedly helped create, the Sacklers were everywhere: Socializing at galas, swanning around the Hamptons, dropping big bucks on a wing at the … Read more

Hamptons sticker shock: Quickie helicopter day trip — for almost $6K

Hamptons sticker shock: Quickie helicopter day trip — for almost K

Is avoiding Hamptons traffic worth spending thousands? An upscale hotel has put together a package that will helicopter guests out to East Hampton before choppering them back to the Big Apple “just in time to experience Manhattan’s nightlife.” The James, a swanky NoMad stay, offers this non-refundable getaway with a two-night minimum. An advertised Jimmy … Read more

Kylian Mbappé fans urge Kim Kardashian to ‘stay away’ after Hamptons party appearance

Kylian Mbappé fans urge Kim Kardashian to ‘stay away’ after Hamptons party appearance

Some of Kylian Mbappé’s biggest supporters have a message for Kim Kardashian. Fans of the Paris Saint-Germain star recently flooded the Skims founder’s Instagram page, where she posted a photo of the duo from Michael Rubin’s starry Fourth of July bash, and urged her to steer clear of the 24-year-old amid a so-called “curse.” “Stay … Read more

Eugenie Bouchard gets over Wimbledon disappointment at Michael Rubin’s star-studded white party

Eugenie Bouchard gets over Wimbledon disappointment at Michael Rubin’s star-studded white party

Eugenie Bouchard is far away for Wimbledon — but still wearing white. Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the Canadian tennis pro — who lost a Wimbledon qualifying match last week — recapped her star-studded evening at Michael Rubin’s annual white party in the Hamptons over the holiday weekend. “Michael did it again! Hottest party of the … Read more

Guacamole sells for $29 at Hamptons market: ‘Not even Bezos will buy it’

Guacamole sells for  at Hamptons market: ‘Not even Bezos will buy it’

We’ve hit guac bottom. A Hamptons market and restaurant has gone viral thanks to a video of a modestly sized, ridiculously priced container of guacamole. A tasty little tub of the avocado dip retailed for $29.51 at the Seafood Shop in Wainscott — a hot spot that’s attracted celebrities like Martha Stewart, Jimmy Buffett and … Read more

Which Cabo? An insider’s guide to Baja for East End addicts

Which Cabo? An insider’s guide to Baja for East End addicts

Easy, breezy Baja California is where Los Angelenos go to play. But for New Yorkers, getting there was hardly hassle-free. That is until JetBlue added its daily year-round flight from JFK to Los Cabos International Airport two years ago. Since then, tristaters make up 5% of the famed peninsula’s visitors, up from fewer than 1% … Read more

The Surf Lodge toasts 15 years: How the motel forever changed Montauk

The Surf Lodge toasts 15 years: How the motel forever changed Montauk

When staff frantically chew their fingernails as they begin the eight-week preparation for the season that kicks off on Memorial Day weekend at Montauk’s Surf Lodge, owner Jayma Cardoso bursts into full-throated, genuine laughter.  “I’m like, ‘Guys, it’ll be fine. We closed the deal on the property six weeks before opening,’” the Brazilian native says. … Read more

The Hamptons’ hottest new restaurants for summer 2023

The Hamptons’ hottest new restaurants for summer 2023

A host of gourmands — including a DJ-chef, a slate of Kittch cooks and an eleventh-generation Hamptons family — are welcoming guests with mouth-watering menus at our picks for the best new restaurants in the Hamptons for 2023. From a buzzy bistro to a frozen-dessert favorite, these six standouts are the destinations to eat, drink and be seen this summer on … Read more

The best new hotels in the Hamptons for 2023

The best new hotels in the Hamptons for 2023

It’s not easy to score a share or an Airbnb in the Hamptons; most towns require a two-week minimum for a short-term stay and are already booked out by May. Worry not: Seven newly opened or refreshed retreats offer entrée into just the right scene, steps from the shore. Owned and operated by the Daunt … Read more

Laurent Tourondel, Julian Medina among top chefs opening new restaurants in the Hamptons for summer

Laurent Tourondel, Julian Medina among top chefs opening new restaurants in the Hamptons for summer

Some of the Big Apple’s top chefs are packing their knives and toques to open new restaurants in the Hamptons as the summer season unofficially kicks off this Memorial Day Weekend. Star chef Laurent Tourondel –  who created the BLT Steak chain, although he is no longer involved in it, along with L’Amico, Skirt Steak and … Read more

Laurent Tourondel, Julian Medina among top chefs opening new restaurants in the Hamptons for summer

Laurent Tourondel, Julian Medina among top chefs opening new restaurants in the Hamptons for summer

Some of the Big Apple’s top chefs are packing their knives and toques to open new restaurants in the Hamptons as the summer season unofficially kicks off this Memorial Day Weekend. Star chef Laurent Tourondel –  who created the BLT Steak chain, although he is no longer involved in it, along with L’Amico, Skirt Steak and … Read more