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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMayor for Life Bloomberg's new $22.5 million digs
The historic 22,000 sq ft manor house sits in 35 acres and overlooks the famed National Golf Links of America and Peconic Bay...with stables and pasture surrounded by several hundred acres of pristine woodland and reserve with horse riding trails.'
'The gentle, winding, half-mile long approach recalls the English countryside in its massive tree plantings, rolling lawns, grazing horses and the grand Georgian mansion in the distance.
It has black-and-white marble floors throughout, as well as 11 bedrooms and eight-and-a-half bathrooms.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016815/Mayor-Michael-Bloomberg-buying-historic-22-5m-Hamptons-mansion.html#ixzz22Zh9K6o7
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Mayor for Life Bloomberg's new $22.5 million digs (Original Post)
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
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no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)1. It IS a lovely property and house.
All in all, I'd rather Bloomberg buy it and preserve it than have Donald Trump destroy it.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)2. How many serfs come with the land title?
Is Laird Michael going to ride the property on his black charger, his long flowing hair tied back in a red ribbon, the ivory buttons on his shirt undone leaving it open to the waist exposing his manly physique, wearing his favorite leather riding boots with silver spurs, beating the lazy and shiftless peasants all about him with his riding crop until they finally understand his angry shouted commands?
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)3. Bought & paid for w/richie tax breaks HE enjoys that we don't and won't
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)4. Wonder how far above sea level it is.
And will be in a few years time.
RandiFan1290
(6,229 posts)5. Where you gonna run to?
You gonna run to the sea?
But the sea will be boiling.
You gonna run to the rocks?
The rocks will be melting