The Story
Fort Pond Bay is Montauk's quiet coast. It held the hamlet's original fishing village, settled in the 1880s by Nova Scotian and Scandinavian families on railroad land, until the 1938 hurricane drove the bay through it. The Navy took the site for a torpedo testing station in 1942, and when the war ended the bay mostly went back to the ospreys. Captain Balfour Way climbs the wooded rise above the shore, looking west across the water.
The house went up in 2015: two stories wrapped in mahogany, cedar, and cumaru, hurricane-rated, set behind mature plantings on 1.9 acres with roughly 200 feet of private bay frontage. It is not a spec-house modern. The floors are reclaimed white oak, the beams exposed Douglas fir, and the walls of glass are framed in mahogany.
Inside
The Boffi kitchen carries Miele and Gaggenau behind a custom walnut and stainless island, and the great room slides open to the terraces on both sides. Six bedrooms and five baths across 4,000 square feet, Waterworks fixtures throughout, with a primary suite on the first floor.
Outside is where the property makes its case: a 50-foot ozone pool with a pool house by Turkel Design, the studio behind the Dwell Homes prefab collection; a fully equipped outdoor kitchen; a rooftop deck above the treeline; and a private path down the bluff to the sand, with deeded water access and deep-water mooring rights.
The Bay
Fort Pond Bay faces west, which in Montauk is the whole trade: the ocean side gets the surf, the bay side gets the evening light. Navy Beach, the restaurant that built an institution on that fact, is a mile down the shore, and the Montauk LIRR station is a mile inland. The house last traded in September 2023 and returns to market at $9,975,000 through Sam Khan and Jack Richardson of SERHANT.
