Quogue Waterfront Property Sells For $6.5 Million

The Village of Quogue, on the west side of the Shinnecock Canal, has of late been a hotbed of real estate activity. Case in point is the sale of a property on Sandacres Lane for $6,450,000. The residence, originally constructed in 2001, has 6 bedrooms and 5.5 baths and an appealing water view.

The purchasers are Barry and Evelyn Salzberg, and therein lies a story.

She has served on the board of the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens, a nonprofit group in Manhattan.

A Brooklyn native, Barry Salzberg graduated from Brooklyn College and Brooklyn Law School. About to turn 24 in 1977, he joined the Deloitte accounting firm. He worked his way up the ladder and eight years later was made partner.

His ascension continued, and in 2007, Mr. Salzberg became the chief executive officer of Deloitte LLP in the United States, then four years later he became CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, which by then was an international firm.

But the story doesn’t end there. In May 2015, Mr. Salzberg announced he was stepping down. No, there was not a scandal involved. In a published essay titled “After 38 Years at Deloitte, I’m Changing Careers,” he revealed that he was going to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a teacher, and he was appointed a full-time professor at Columbia University School of Business.

“I don’t even play golf,” Mr. Salzberg wrote, and that he wasn’t ready for retirement anyway. He called his years at the accounting firm “an amazing journey,” and the years to follow “present a unique opportunity to go after our dreams.”

We can’t help adding that when the couple’s son, Matthew, was married to Lily Hayes Kaufman in November 2014, a connection was made to a most interesting family.

The bride was part of the production teams of “St. Vincent,” the film starring Bill Murray, and the NBC TV show “Smash.”

Her mother, Patricia Kaufman, was executive director of the New York State Governor’s Office for Motion Picture and Television Development, and is on the board of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Her husband, Lloyd Kaufman, is the founder and president of Troma Entertainment. Film aficionados of a certain age might remember that the uber-horror flick “The Toxic Avenger” was what put Troma on the movie map in the 1980s.