The Nantucket Buyers Betting Against Losing It All

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 extreme weather [The Nantucket Buyers Betting Against Losing It All]( A waterfront house might last for two years or ten. These homeowners are willing to take the risk. Photo: Kit Noble In June, Don Vaccaro, the founder of TicketNetwork, a ticket-brokering business, bought a house so close to the edge of an eroding Nantucket beach that even he admits it’s unlikely to survive the year. The sellers, a Connecticut couple who’d summered at 28 Sheep Pond Road since 1988, had been hoping to spend one last summer there, but after a series of winter storms brought the beach perilously close to their back porch, they shifted course. “All winter I had been really frantically trying to see if any of the organizations would consider taking the house and moving it, and we would help with the cost of moving,” owner Jane Carlin [told the Nantucket Current]( earlier this year. But free houses that need to be moved [are common]( on Nantucket — owners have to offer their properties for the taking before they can get a demolition permit to knock them down — and no one stepped up to claim the shingled, 1,700-square-foot home, which had just been assessed by the town at $1.9 million. When Vaccaro, who also owns the property next door, called to offer $200,000, Carlin and her husband were thrilled: “We said ‘Whoa! We’re not going to say no.’” [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [A Milk-Themed Tribeca Bedroom and Other Things We Dug Up This Week This week’s batch of small-but-notable things found in the listings also includes an Old West saloon in a Park Avenue co-op.]( By Adriane Quinlan [How The Penguin’s Production Designer Created Her Gotham The Penguin sleeps in a Diamond District vault, the Falcones have a Long Island mansion, and everything is loosely 1970s-inspired.]( By Adriane Quinlan [Donald Judd’s Everlasting Influence Colin King, Nick Poe, and Landon Brown talk about the artist’s impact on their work.]( By Ian Volner [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved