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Posted on: July 17, 2017 at 15:36:57 CT
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“We coexist with these people peacefully,” said Alison Davis, who lives nearby. “It’s basically their summer cottage, but we see the diplomat tags driving here all the time, very friendly. We see them biking, say hello.”
Still, she said, local residents don’t “really have any interactions with them. They kind of keep to themselves.”
She said the compound has a private beach and was typically used for a sailing regatta during the end-of-summer Labor Day weekend.
An Associated Press story from 1992 about the sprawling property said at the time that the brick mansion had been converted into 12 apartments and a dozen cottages, each with four apartments. In total, the compound can accommodate 40 families at a time, according to that report.
That report also said that the property then boasted four lighted tennis courts, a swimming pool and a soccer field and that a camp was held there for Russian children during the summer and for two weeks each Christmas.
Russia maintains two weekend retreats for its U.N. diplomats about an hour’s drive outside New York City, where the United Nations has its high-rise headquarters.
One of them, Elmcroft, was built on a part of Long Island made famous in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby.”
Its main house originally had 27 rooms and 11 baths and was constructed for an executive at a Brooklyn company that made heavy machinery and torpedoes. Later it became the home of a former New York governor, Nathan Miller.
Satellite photography shows that the grounds today include a tennis court, gardens, a soccer field and another large, modern building.
“They’ve been quiet neighbors,” said Elliot Conway, mayor of Upper Brookville, the village in Oyster Bay where the estate is situated.
A short drive away, Russian diplomats stay at another grand Gold Coast estate, the Killenworth mansion, not far from the city of Glen Cove. It, too, was bought during the Cold War.
“We coexist with these people peacefully,” said Alison Davis, who lives nearby. “It’s basically their summer cottage, but we see the diplomat tags driving here all the time, very friendly. We see them biking, say hello.”
Still, she said, local residents don’t “really have any interactions with them. They kind of keep to themselves.”
She said the compound has a private beach and was typically used for a sailing regatta during the end-of-summer Labor Day weekend.
An Associated Press story from 1992 about the sprawling property said at the time that the brick mansion had been converted into 12 apartments and a dozen cottages, each with four apartments. In total, the compound can accommodate 40 families at a time, according to that report.
That report also said that the property then boasted four lighted tennis courts, a swimming pool and a soccer field and that a camp was held there for Russian children during the summer and for two weeks each Christmas.
Russia maintains two weekend retreats for its U.N. diplomats about an hour’s drive outside New York City, where the United Nations has its high-rise headquarters.
One of them, Elmcroft, was built on a part of Long Island made famous in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby.”
Its main house originally had 27 rooms and 11 baths and was constructed for an executive at a Brooklyn company that made heavy machinery and torpedoes. Later it became the home of a former New York governor, Nathan Miller.
Satellite photography shows that the grounds today include a tennis court, gardens, a soccer field and another large, modern building.
“They’ve been quiet neighbors,” said Elliot Conway, mayor of Upper Brookville, the village in Oyster Bay where the estate is situated.
A short drive away, Russian diplomats stay at another grand Gold Coast estate, the Killenworth mansion, not far from the city of Glen Cove. It, too, was bought during the Cold War.
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