What Long Island homes actually have connections to 'Great Gatsby?'

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past — trying to confirm or deny which Long Island houses may have had some connection to "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel set in the fictional North Shore enclaves East Egg and West Egg.

In this centennial year of the book that encapsulates American striving, via bootleg-liquor millionaire Jay Gatsby and his admiring new friend Nick Carraway, many real-life locales are dusting off their "Gatsby" credentials as the supposed homes that inspired the book's mansions — specifically those of Gatsby and of his now-married former love, Daisy Buchanan.

Mostly, the claims are apocryphal. "Every year, someone is selling a house and says, 'This is the house that inspired "The Great Gatsby,'" said a bemus