Joe Nocera, Columnist

Hamptons Houses Are Now Luxury Coronavirus Bunkers

The summer retreat began early, but there’s no true escape from Covid-19.

The ocean’s not the draw right now.

Photographer: Johnny Milano/Bloomberg
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Not long after my family and I left New York City to wait out the coronavirus crisis from our house in the Hamptons, the broker who sold it to us a decade ago called my wife, Dawn. She wanted to know where we were planning to self-isolate.

“We are going to stay here,” Dawn said.