| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nothing disturbed the cozy, dog-hair-on-the-sofa calm of Bedford, New York, a prosperous Cheever-country exurban enclave just 44 miles from Manhattan, until the late '70s, when flashy corporate raiders such as Carl Icahn and Ivan Boesky moved in—to be followed over the next two decades by a bevy of high-profile names including George Soros, Ralph Lauren, Michael Crichton, Tommy Mottola, and Donald Trump. But visiting the now hot town's fabled hilltop estates, listening to longtime inhabitants, and meeting the recent arrivals, Alex Shoumatoff found in 1999 that Bedford was holding its own, burnishing brash new fortunes with the grace and patina of old money. | | | | | | | | | |
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