Exclusive | War of the weekenders! Could New Yorks tony Hudson Valley finally steal the high-falutin Hamptons flashy crown?

There’s a boldfaced brouhaha bubbling up this summer — has New York’s quietly elegant, ever-trendier Hudson Valley finally knocked the cash-splashing, high-falutin’ Hamptons off its perch as the preferred hideout for NYC’s elite?Nick Ewing thinks so.The 46-year-old commodities exec thought he’d found his forever escape after snapping up an East Hampton pad in 2013 — until the pandemic-era hordes swooped in. “I love the beach, to get away from the madness of the city.

I thought we would live out there, in some form, until we died,” he told The Post. “Then, during COVID, ten million people moved out to East Hampton.And they never left,” he said, describing how the Memorial Day-to-Labor Day retreat became a full-time residence for many, including boldfacers like Jerry Seinfeld and Howard Stern — who has famously been broadcasting from his Southampton home since 2020. Ewing watched helplessly as the traffic jams and overcrowded restaurants of summer became the all-season norm.  “You can survive that for sixteen weekends, but now it’s all year ‘round,” he said, explaining that to make matters worse, the vibe of the new arrivals seemed all wrong. “We had an influencer move in with the lady next door to us, who was basically having Kardashian-esque parties every weekend,” says Ewing, “That’s not the scene I went out there for.” (Michael Rubin’s over-the-top July 4th White Party at his $50m Watermill estate is one such culprit — Kim, Khloe and Kendall Jenner have all been clocked.)With regret, Ewing sold his place in late 2021, with no plans to buy anywhere else — until his curiosity was piqued by a property for sale in the Hudson Valley.“It ticked every box,” he said of the home in Dutchess County he and his husband ended up buying — just a few weeks later. “The only thing we miss about the Hamptons is the beach, but I don’t even really think about it.

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