Inside "Billionaires' Dirt Road": The NY Town That's Home To Billionaires And Celebrities | Forbes
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- When Jenn Gates, the 25-year-old daughter of billionaires Bill and Melinda Gates, married Nayel Nassar last month at her $34 million, 146-acre estate in North Salem, New York, it shone a spotlight on the bucolic Westchester town.
The area, which has its own “Billionaires’ Dirt Road,” is located just 55 miles north of New York City and home to more than half of the county’s agricultural land. Stretched out over roughly 23 square miles, it is just about the same size as the island of Manhattan but with a population of roughly 5,200-not counting all the horses and alpacas.
That combination of wide-open spaces, few people, and North Salem’s decades-long status as an equestrian mecca-it boasts at least 56 horse facilities, including nationally renowned Old Salem Farm-has long attracted a mix of Wall Street tycoons and celebrities drawn to its rural character.
An accomplished show jumper, Jenn Gates set up an outpost of her Evergate Stables here. Her barn is three miles down the road from her fellow equestrian and wedding guest Georgina Bloomberg, the daughter of billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg. Other three-comma club residents include BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Milwaukee Bucks co-owners Jamie Dinan and Wesley Edens and hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin. And in January, Richard Gere discreetly paid $9.8 million for the estate of a Woolworth heir, joining other famous neighbors, including late night legend David Letterman and Disney composer Alan Menken.
It helps that residents respect others’ privacy. “One of the nicest parts of North Salem is people don’t count other people’s money,” says the town’s deputy supervisor Peter Kamenstein. “If you want to be left alone, you are left alone.”
Residents have long sought to protect North Salem’s rural identity. In 1974, a group of property owners created the North Salem Open Land Foundation, which has acquired 858 acres in town and holds conservation easements over another 500 acres. The foundation gets support from some of the town’s wealthy residents who are also board members-including McDonald’s franchise multimillionaire Bruce Colley and Target heir Duncan Dayton, who sold more than 140 acres to the Gates family. After philanthropist Ronald Stanton, founder of petrochemicals company Transammonia, died in 2016, two of his monied neighbors-Dinan and financier Steve Rattner-reportedly purchased his hundreds of acres to ensure that no one else developed the land. It also helps that nearly all of these wealthy landowners get tax benefits along with their huge parcels of land, either from putting acres into conservation easements or qualifying for agricultural exemptions.
“Everyone appreciates North Salem,” says longtime resident and head of the town planning board Cynthia Curtis, “and it wouldn’t be this way if not for the people who choose to live here and own the large parcels.”
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Its not a neighborhood u cn walk to ur neighbor and ask for salt. 😂
Yeah but i believes is it one you can drive and ask for "investment"
Can I ask for the fruit in front of your home?
A reality show in these neighborhoods would break the universe 😂
These people are grateful to forbes for exposing their home address.
Succession type neighborhood lmao
I wonder what it feels like to be that rich
Probably feel nothing. Literally numb to everything because doing anything you want anytime you want is just normal.
I would hire a private tutor for all subjects. I'd spend the rest of my life learning.
@@bennytdi True. Everything is meaningless for them...
@@Gwyllgi even this may not make you happy
@@imranexltd cope envious peasant
I hope in future I will own a similar estate or property like the ones listed herein.
Good question @Simar Bagga C-202. It is because I want to have a tranquil environment which allows me to relax, host huge parties and play with my grandchildren when I am older.
Kabsa bro
lmfao
Haha good luck your talking about multi million dollars of land that will only increase. I doubt any of the people listed hoped they would one day live here I'm sure many just have enough income to buy multiple properties in high value areas.
You don't even need it. You just want it
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To those who work in acres, not in hours.
Not the most diverse neighborhood
Diverse in religious groups that’s for sure.
@@1minTale 95% jewish doesn't feel diverse
@@DOPEdwarf hahahaha that’s a great point
Why would you wanna be there anyway! Stop being a beggar and go build your town.
Why are u crying to accept u ? have dignity and pride my Man U sound weak
Imagine buying a house there and it is full on Rosemary's Baby town.
Billionaires and celebrities:" Climate change is real. People need to reduce their carbon footprint."
Also billionaires and celebrities:" We live in mansions on dozens of acres and stay out of our town."
How do those two things conflict each other?
@@MyAkachi Because they're not practicing what they're preaching. In other words, everyone else should have to modify their standard of living. Get it?
@@weirdshibainu Human beings are not biologically designed to live in cities though. We shouldn't tear them down for living comfortably unless they explicitly do so on the backs of other people's suffering. There are honest wealthy people. We need more of them to work with the rest of us towards an equitable society where we can all have enough space (not necessarily hundreds of acres, but more than a one bed room apartment) and air for everyone.
@@houseofvenusMD Yoy missed the point by a mile. I know there are honest, wealthy people. However, the sheer hypocrisy of a handful of people who want to dictate policies they dont have to live by is unacceptable
It’s like Bedford and the Hamptons basically but they put the land to use.
800 acre property like a btw
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Let's not joke ourselves to the point of oblivion of the fact that the divorce rate in America is at an all time high.
Marvin schwarz is just Jeff bezos in disguise
“Who reportedly makes maple syrup” 🤣🤣 them and many others in the north east. It’s really not thattt opulent
Don’t forget the Rockefeller’s
Bru i just wish one day
Everyone on the vid needs no intro except….who’s Schwartz ?
really !!bachelors can't live there😃 😂😅
Only legend values life lik elon whose no.1 billionaire look at hkm hw he lives nikols shld be trillionaire but never be greed thats what dignity self satisfaction speaks about
Elon owns multiple mansions in LA.
Must be nice
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No mask bill gates? Hmmm
just white people, thats kinda weird tbh
No it's not consideirng they were the majority that started the country and still are the majority. What's weird is minorities being allowed to group up like they are the majority but the actual majority can't have too many of their own in one place, organization or company. Now that's weird.
They cant help homeless jobless but enjoy of own its nt rught thing..its sinn
It's not a sin
Its their money if they want to help or not it's not your business
Town gotta be racist on a whole other level
I’m black and grew up here-trust me, fam. It is.
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