Nick Monte was from Carroll Gardens and swam in the St. George Hotel’s saltwater pool when he was kid. He grew up to revamp Gurney’s in Montauk and make it one of the best oceanside resorts in the county:
New York Times: Nick Monte Dies at 90: Mr. Monte bought the inn for $200,000 in 1956 from Maude Gurney, a Christian Scientist who opposed alcohol consumption. At the time, Mr. Monte owned a well-known restaurant in Brooklyn, Monte’s Venetian Room on Carroll Street in Carroll Gardens, which had sold homemade brew during Prohibition. He began serving liquor at Gurney’s, started adding rooms, built what he called the Skipper’s Dining Room and, in 1979, opened the spa.
