"It used to have the Moriches cachet," joked Colleen McGrath, an energy management consultant from Manhattan who bought a house near the antiques district three years ago and last summer started managing the Seatuck Cove House, a waterfront inn.
There are lots of B&Bs in nearby West Lulworth; try Cove House, with doubles from £100 Although set within a nature reserve, this small haven of sun and sand comes with a soundtrack of gently thudding bass drums, because it is licensed to party until just after sunset.
At the Sentosa Cove beach house, it wasn't until nearly one in the morning, when Bruno was already more than a hundred thousand in the hole, that Billy Yik Tho Lim said anything about the mark on Bruno's neck.
For example, the Cove Theater in Glen Cove, built in 1927, was demolished in the late 1980's, and replaced by a housing project.
Mr. Elwell, who grew up in Secaucus and remembers when there was no such thing as fishing in the river, recalled that the Harmon Cove town houses "went like wildfire," although the developer, Hartz Mountain Associates, had a much harder time filling the high-rises.
In 2010, the television series Hawaii Five-0 chose Battleship Cove, a housing community just outside the dock of the USS Missouri museum, as the location for an episode.
Just imagine -- your companion dolphin, who comes to the cove by your house for a daily visit, is swimming along, frolicking with his family, when, in mid-dive, a sonic canon boom turns his radar system to jelly.
"I love June, September, October — I swim until Nov. 1," she said, pulling out an early 20th-century photograph of the beach coves where her house is nestled and pointing out just how little has been added to the landscape in the last 100 years.
Someone approaching Avalon Bay today is viewing more or less the same picture-postcard scene sailboats moored in a crescent cove, the whitewashed houses and hotels of Avalon perching above like layers of a wedding cake that throughout the 1930s and '40s drew ships filled with revelers bound for the giant Casino, where the likes of Woody Herman and Harry James were waiting to set them swinging.
People talk differently in every bay, cove, and public housing ghetto scattered across Greater Sin Jawns.
People talk different in every bay, cove, and public housing ghetto scattered across Greater Sin Jawns.
