— CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS 5. Urban Summer Share A summer share within city limits?
One of those irons had involved taking a summer share in 1999 in a palatial house in Southampton, N.Y., where she had hoped to find "the one" among 20 rotating housemates.
"We get such a terrible rap it isn't even funny," said Jessica Petti, 23, who lives in East Brunswick, works at a hotel in Princeton and is embarking this year on her first summer share.
And a month off work, a summer share and no car.
It is followed by "Summer Share," based on Jules Renard's 1898 short play "Le Pain de Ménage" transposed to the Hamptons, circa 2007.
"None of my friends are into the idea of the weekend thing anymore," said Ms. McCaig-wholes, whadhad a summer share with about 15 people two years ago on Fire Island.
The couple graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, but did not meet until several years later, at a party held at a summer share house in Quogue, N.Y.
This summer, with four men and three women, I rented a summer share in Rockaway Beach, Queens.
"One Ocean View," an ABC reality show about a summer share, has been taping episodes, and will have its premiere later this month.
Matthias Hollwich of HWKN, the architect in charge of designing the Pavilion, recalled first dancing there in the summer of 1992 as a student from Munich: "I came ashore with no summer share, danced until 6 in the morning and took a ferry back to the mainland," he said.
