But there's no danger of the Hamptons coming down to earth any time soon.
As with any ritual, of course, the summer exodus to the Hamptons has its own set of rules.
That bought some pretty nice beach houses in the Hamptons, let me tell you.
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Of course you could also wear the sailor outfit to a July 4th barbecue at the Hamptons.
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Or how about off Long Island, just four miles out from the beaches of the Hamptons?
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Felker thought Rupert was his friend when they were traveling in the same circles out in the Hamptons.
Plum TV broadcasts in escape towns for the rich, like Aspen, Martha's Vineyard, Miami Beach and the Hamptons.
She cooked for hundreds of kids at an upstate summer camp and hundreds of brides in the Hamptons.
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Get your glamp on: head for the Hamptons for a show-stopping time that will leave your head swimming.
He has been press shy lately, by his account lodged away in the Hamptons building a new home.
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While all this is going on, Cohen is buying prized real estate in the Hamptons and scooping up Picassos.
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But it's not just the scale of the wealth that's notable in the Hamptons, it's the age of it.
Werner also found time to visit Hangzhou, Shanghai's mirror-lake-and-misty-mountain version of the Hamptons ( Escapes), and its ethereal Amanresort, Amanfayun.
So now I tool around the Hamptons in that, visiting all the farm stands and looking up at the trees.
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The primary draw of the Hamptons is its spectacular beaches backed by fabulous homes, picket-fenced wild dunes and clustering gulls.
The basic geography of the Hamptons can be mastered with relative ease, because all the towns are on the same eastbound road (Route 27).
Greene is not new to the Hamptons, having spent recent summers living on his yacht 145-foot yacht Summerwind docked in Sag Harbor.
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Peter Turino of Brown Harris Stevens in the Hamptons has the listing.
Some members of the 99% made their way out to the Hamptons to tell Romney what they think about him and his financial backers.
Even some of the Hamptons' most lavish estates can be enjoyed via private garden tours advertised in the local newspaper, The East Hampton Star.
That night in the Hamptons, McMullan gushed about how much he loved the silent drive of his plug-in hybrid and how stylish it looked.
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Second homes in the Hamptons are being sold at lower selling prices, and broken up families are having to adjust to living in smaller apartments.
Then in September, his wife Lisa Marie was arrested on suspicion of driving her Mercedes Benz in the Hamptons under the influence of alcohol.
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Just a ferry ride from Shelter Island and the rest of the Hamptons, Greenport feels like a quaint seaside oasis, untouched by any power scene.
The reason for the Hamptons' enduring popularity is pretty simple.
On eastern Long Island, the Hamptons were under assault midday, with officials there reporting beaches being washed away, houses in danger of collapse and roads submerged.
"I can go to the Hamptons on a Friday night and not hit a traffic jam, " Mr. Schwartz said, concluding an interview with a gentle boast.
They say that as mayor, the report says you took trips to the Hamptons and expensed the cost of your police detail to obscure city offices.
Mr. Sonnenfeld says they are now selling their home and leaving the Hamptons because their kids are grown and they have decided to move to Telluride, Colo.
Roberta Morrell of Morrell Wines in New York said she appreciated it when someone brought a wine she'd never tasted before to her home in the Hamptons.
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