Inside the jaw-dropping $6.5M beach mansion the ‘Sopranos’ writers are ditching! ️

 

The Shelter Island, New York, home of two executive producers and writers of “The Sopranos” is set to hit the market on Wednesday for nearly $6.5 million, Mansion Global has learned.

The sellers are Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, who also created the 14-season CBS police procedural “Blue Bloods” together. They bought the 1880s Victorian home in early 2020 for $2.8 million, records with PropertyShark show. Shelter Island is situated between Long Island’s North and South Forks, and the property is less than 10 minutes from the island’s South Ferry shuttle to the mainland.

Previously, the property was the longtime home of the late art critic and historian Robert Hughes, who worked with architect Lee Skolnick to renovate the house in 1988, the same year he bought it.

But the owner between Hughes and Green and Burgess let most of the 3,863-square-foot, three-bedroom home fall into disrepair. Some of the property was a “wreck” and in desperate need of work, while other parts, like the kitchen and bathrooms, were still in good condition.

“We saw it, I think, as a project. It just spoke to us in that way,” Green said.

Green and Burgess, who also split time between New York City and the U.S. Virgin Islands, picked away at that project over the next four to five years, starting with replacing the floors—wood in some rooms, carpet in others—and painting the walls enamel white. Other work included screening in the home’s large back porch to keep out mosquitoes, redoing the 60-foot pool to replace the plastic liner with gunite and rebuilding the cabana.

“Every year we did something,” Burgess said.

An elevated walkway draped in wisteria connects the second floor of the main house to a studio atop a barn, where Green painted and wrote. The boards of the walkway were entirely rotten when they moved it, requiring the structure to be rebuilt.

“The walkway overlooks the property, so it’s pretty magnificent when you go from the main house to the artist’s loft,” Burgess said.

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Below the studio, there’s a gym in the barn, and a one-bedroom pool house rounds out the property’s three separate structures, according to the Agency Hamptons, whose agent Stacey Cohen holds the listing.

With 2 acres of land, Green and Burgess also dedicated time to improving the grounds. They revived the orchard, added landscaping to the front entrance and created a raised-bed vegetable garden. There are also formal English-style gardens and a year-round cutting garden.