Let the neighbors rig up their 40-foot, live-candle Christmas tree or present little pots of caviar so precious that each egg is like the last stand of an endangered species.

FORBES: It's a beautiful thing for the holidays.

As a matter of novelistic accuracy, however, this area was more likely a stand-in for the old-moneyed East Egg in the novel, while the arriviste nouveau riche estate of Gatsby was probably located across Manhasset Bay in Great Neck (West Egg).

BBC: The Great Gatsby��s Gold Coast