Tag: Weekend Excursions from NYC.

First trip to Nantucket with friends. Pool house, harbor views, and restaurants serving fresh oysters across the island.

Wine tasting and picnic at Bedell Cellars on North Fork, Long Island. A lazy October afternoon of Uno, rosé, and vineyard views.

Photos from the Bridgehampton Polo Challenge kickoff featuring White Birch versus Lechuza Caracas, plus Hamptons dining and beach scenes.

Tour of Stone Barns Center in Westchester County: farm-to-table restaurant, mushroom cultivation classes, and working gardens on the Rockefeller estate.

Attended the 2012 US Open in Flushing Meadows with upgraded Ashe Stadium seats. Saw Djokovic and Roddick's farewell match at the Queens tennis tournament.

A mountain-top wedding near Kingston, New York, held at the historic Hellmann House in Boiceville. Photos from the ceremony and reception.

Attending the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Liberty Island: champagne, fashion, and polo stars like Nacho Figueras.

Labor Day at the US Open in Queens: Djokovic's tiebreak marathon, Armstrong Stadium seats, and a first-time tennis fan's take on the grounds.

Inside Hudson Valley's first post-Prohibition distillery in Gardiner, NY. Tour, whiskey tasting, and the story behind award-winning Hudson Whiskey.

Tour the Franklin D. Roosevelt Family Home and Eleanor Roosevelt's Val-Kil cottage in Hyde Park, New York. Learn the history of two presidential estates on the Hudson River.

Tour Frank Lloyd Wright's 1936 masterpiece Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. A weekend home built over a waterfall with dramatic cantilevers and natural integration.

Tour Frederick Vanderbilt's 1899 Hyde Park mansion overlooking the Hudson Valley. 54-room Gilded Age estate on 211 acres, now a National Park Service historic site.

A visit to Philip Johnson's iconic 1949 Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut—a modernist masterpiece on 49 acres just an hour from New York City.

A Memorial Day weekend in Philadelphia: Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, Benjamin Franklin's sites, and tours of neighborhoods like Rittenhouse Park led by a friend at Urban Outfitters.