Boy Gary shaking the dust from his feet and saying goodbye to Old Greenwich

Selling off Hillcrest Park, heading north, and south

Our New Mexico correspondent provides the backstory: Howard Stern producer Gary Dell’Abate selling $3.2M Greenwich mansion

Baba Booey is going bye-bye. 

Gary Dell’Abate, longtime executive producer of “The Howard Stern Show” who’s affectionately known to fans as Baba Booey, is selling the custom-built Connecticut mansion he has lived in since 2007. 

Located in the upscale Hillcrest Park’s Old Farm Lane community in Old Greenwich, the five-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate spans a massive 7,600 square feet and was specifically designed for the producer. 

The move comes after Dell’Abate, 60, spoke on the Stern show last year about possibly moving further north to Maine after he and his wife, Mary Dell’Abate, took a trip there and fell in love with the state. 

“The idea is to have a small place in Maine and maybe a small place in Florida, eventually,” he noted in a September 2020 episode. “I’ve got one big house — I can trade it in for two much smaller houses.”

Leaving aside the NY Post reporter’s naive idea of what a “mansion” is here in Greenwich, I wonder whether Baba Booey has priced homes in either the Pine or the Sunshine states; he may find that “much smaller” is as disappointing in one way as the reporter’s idea of a mansion is in the other. Of course, given his long tenure on the show — hell, he was there when I listened to Stern, and that had to be more than 25 years ago – I’m sure he can afford to buy whatever small houses he wants to, without breaking a sweat.

And good for him. He has long been a fixture in the town’s volunteer community, including serving on the Parks and Rec Committee, and will surely be missed by a grateful town.

Circling Back: By the way, I usually don’t post the name of buyer or seller, but in this case, I did check the internet before publishing, and a search for “Gary Dell’Abate Old Greenwich” instantly turned up his voter registration card, listing his address. That’s about as public as you can get, and Dell’Abate obviously doesn’t care, so I went for it.