There’s a boldfaced brouhaha bubbling up this summer — has New York’s quietly elegant, ever-trendier Hudson Valley finally knocked the cash-splashing, high-falutin’ Hamptons off its perch as the preferred hideout for NYC’s elite? Nick Ewing thinks so. The 46-year-old commodities exec thought he’d found his forever escape after snapping up an East Hampton pad in 2013 — until the pandemic-era hordes swooped in. “I love the beach, to get away from the madness of the city. I thought we would live out there, in some form, until we died,” he told The Post. The East End has long been known as the go-to spot for New Yorkers — but that narrative seems to be changing. demerzel21 – stock.adobe.com “Then, during COVID, ten million people moved out to East Hampton. And they never left,” he said, descri