17 September 2009

Sands Point


Manhasset Neck, Long Island -- or "East Egg," as F Scott Fitzgerald renamed it in The Great Gatsby. Home of the Old Money.


Castle Gould, built by the son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould. On completion, Mrs Gould didn't like it so it was converted into a stable.


The Hempstead House -- one of Fitzgerald's "white palaces glittering on the water."


Site of Gatsby-style lawn parties.


Rocco Road.


Bootleggers' Cliff.


The Long Island Sound.


Jay Gatsby wooed Daisy Buchanan on this bench. As far as you know.


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