In Deep Water! East Hampton's Georgica Pond is Being Studied For Toxins

A group of wealthy homeowners on Georgica Pond in East Hampton have had it with potentially toxic blooms in the water and taken matters into their own hands, ponying up $359,000 in the hope of finding a remedy. Billionaire Ron Perelman and his wife, Anna Chapman, and their high-powered neighbors and friends are paying Stony Brook Southampton staff, led by Dr. Christopher Gobler of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, to monitor the pond.

Own a Piece of the Late Francis Fleetwood's Legacy

The shingle style is by far the overriding architectural vernacular of the Hamptons, and no one executed it better than Francis Fleetwood. With his death in May, the prolific East Hampton–based Fleetwood joins the growing pantheon of notable East End architects, from Grosvenor Atterbury to Norman Jaffe and Charles Gwathmey, who have left their mark on the South Fork.

3 New Hamptons Resort Developments on the Horizon

Nowhere in the world is real estate sexier—even for George Clooney, arguably one of the sexiest men alive—than in the Hamptons. The two-time Academy Award winner, is just one of the rumored investors in the eight-acre Dune Deck Beach Resort development in Westhampton Beach. The former Hamptons hot spot sold for $19 million to Discovery Land Company CEO Mike Meldman, who also co-owns Casamigos Tequila with Clooney and his pal Rande Gerber, husband of supermodel Cindy Crawford.