{"id":363114,"date":"2026-10-02T19:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363114\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:40:48","slug":"this-new-luxury-retreat-combines-manhattan-swagger-with-countryside-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363114\/","title":{"rendered":"This new luxury retreat combines Manhattan swagger with countryside charm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 3, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Forty-five minutes\u2019 drive north of Sydney\u2019s CBD, the view from the M1 opens onto the Hawkesbury \u2013 a broad sweep of water framed by bush-covered sandstone hills, with boats tucked into its bays. Many of us have driven over this river without a second thought. But next time you cross the Brooklyn Bridge, John Singleton wants you to take a moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not shuck an oyster?\u201d he asks. \u201cCharter a boat down to Lion Island. Cast a line for kingfish or flathead \u2013 it\u2019s a fishing paradise here. Slightly further afield you\u2019ve got incredible beaches and surfing, beautiful walks that could take you all day and you wouldn\u2019t see another person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 3, 2026 \u2013 5.00am Forty-five minutes\u2019 drive north of Sydney\u2019s CBD, the view from the M1 opens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-363114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}