Real estate agents on Long Island’s Gold Coast often conjure up F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby when penning advertising copy. But one home on the market in Great Neck—a seven-bedroom Mediterranean listed for $2.999 million with Nurit Weiss and Inbar Mitzman of Coldwell Banker Real Estate—can claim to be the real deal. Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, rented 6 Gateway Drive from October 1922 to April 1924, and he wrote the first chapters of his signature work in a room above the garage. Driving around the neighborhood in his rented Rolls-Royce, Fitzgerald likely would have spun by several other standouts in his promised land, like the six-bedroom 1908 Tudor at 48 Potters Lane in Great Neck, listed for $3.9 million with Diane Polland of Coldwell Banker, or the 1919 Tudor over in Daisy Buchanan territory, a six-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath home in Sands Point that’s listed for $2.4 million with Cynthia Magazine of Douglas Elliman. Just down the street, another Mediterranean—built in 1912 by Addison Mizner, architect of Palm Beach’s La Guerida, the Kennedy compound popularly known as the “winter White House”—is on the market for $3.75 million with Francesca Morrocu Blass of Daniel Gale Real Estate.
