East Egg residents get new homes in Long Island development
Land’s End, the 1902 Colonial Revival mansion overlooking Long Island Sound at Sands Point, was demolished in April 2011.
Its five hectares are now being subdivided into a gated cul-de-sac, to be known as Seagate at Sands Point.
As the New York Times recently wrote, the aura of The Great Gatsby only just lingers around the estate, which was thought to have inspired the setting for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about the Roaring ’20s. But there is no conclusive evidence that the 25-room Land’s End was the model for Tom and Daisy Buchanan's mansion in the 1925 novel.
Although its name has been changed to Seagate, Bert Brodsky, the owner, declared that it would “represent today’s Gatsby.”
With prices ranging from about $10 million to $17 million, it will have five new mansions (such as the one pictured) on lots of almost one hectare.
Brodsky reportedly bought Land’s End for $US17.5 million in 2004.
This week actor Leonardo DiCaprio has secured a rental property in Vaucluse in which to live while he films the titular role in Baz Luhrmann's version of The Great Gatsby.
