Where would you find a fancy villa around NYC?

[booksforlunch]

Well, the thread title is pretty much the entire question.

The novel I'm working on (for Nanowrimo) has a scene in which the protagonist is dragged into the fancy villa of a NYC-based mob boss for a thorough interrogation/beating.

So I guess the gangster would live outside Manhatten. But where exactly?
It would need to be a place where he could cater a dinner party with over a hundred guests and where one would find a wine cellar (that's relevant to the plot.)

Any ideas for a fitting location?

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

 

[Mouse]

No idea, but have you tried just Googling it? I needed a posh LA club for my NaNo story, Googled it and got a few options.

 

[The Ace]

Surely somewhere on Long Island. Remember, it's 100 miles long and only the tip of it is in New York city.

 

[Ursa major]

Or Westchester County, New York. It's very handy for NYC and is, according to the link, second only to Manhatten** in terms of wealthy New York state counties. (And it's seventh nationally).






** - Strictly speaking, Manhatten is an island and a borough; the name of the coterminous*** county is, confusingly, New York.

*** - Coterminous with the borough; both borough and county contain islands other than the island of Manhatten.

 

[dustinzgirl]

Doesn't everything in NYC happen in Upper Manhattan or Upper Westside or Upper Eastside?

 

[alchemist]

Aren't the mob all in Noo Joisey?

 

[Ursa major]

The ones the authorities know about, perhaps, alchemist.

 

[Croaker]

How about The Hamptons? Small group of villages on the east end of Long Island. Contains three of the ten most expensive zip codes in the US.