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Despite Concessions, Pool Remains in Huntting Inn Plans

After months of adjournments, representatives of the Huntting Inn returned to the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals last week, continuing its quest to add a pool and hot tub behind its timber-frame guest house.

Mar 14, 2024

Santos Makes Another Run for Congress

“The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce” may be an apt description of a recent development in the race to represent New York’s First Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, where former Representative George Santos of New York, who was expelled from the House in December, has announced that he will challenge first-term Representative Nick LaLota for the Republican nomination.

Mar 14, 2024

Government

The village board has the authority to set the number of moorings in the waterways it manages but has never done so. Now, it aims to change that. “We want to limit unchecked expansion,” said Chris Duryea, a village harbormaster.

Mar 14, 2024

East Hampton Town’s 2024 draft capital plan — a wish list of 85 construction, upgrade, or acquisition initiatives with an estimated total cost of just over $15 million, much of it allocated to the Highway, Police, and Parks and Building Maintenance Departments — was presented to the town board on Tuesday.

Mar 14, 2024

A beach and dune remediation project at Ditch Plain in Montauk, where a critical dune system was lost to winter storms, will cost an estimated $3 million to $5 million.

Mar 14, 2024

Nancy Goroff and John Avlon, candidates for the Democratic Party’s nomination to challenge Representative Nick LaLota in New York’s First Congressional District, signaled unity in their belief that Mr. LaLota can be defeated in the Nov. 5 election during a candidates forum hosted by the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee.

Mar 14, 2024

Arts

Hallie Cohen: Living the Vita Dolce

A year in Rome as an undergraduate art student and a screening years later of a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini led to Hallie Cohen’s “Mi Ricordo: Roman Watercolors,” a show of monumental paintings.

Mar 13, 2024

The Madoo Conservancy’s Manhattan lecture series will feature Cassian Schmidt, a German landscape designer, while LongHouse Reserve’s Larsen Salon lecture in Manhattan will welcome Calvin Tsao, an architect, for a conversation with Sherri Donghia.

Mar 13, 2024

Patrick Brennan’s "The Cage" at Halsey McKay Gallery takes over the space with an installation that aims to confound viewers' expectations in order to arrive at a greater understanding of the work.

Mar 13, 2024

Richard Baratta and Latin Jazz at the Southampton Arts Center, Glam Jam and Jam Session at the Masonic Temple, Johnny in the Basement at the Talkhouse, Irish trifecta at the Suffolk Theater, and live music at Kidd Squid.

Mar 13, 2024

Villages

A Call for Pop-Up Mom-and-Pops

The Anchor Society of East Hampton, a nonprofit community group working to revitalize the village business district and return a warmer sense of community to Main Street and Newtown Lane, has issued a call for applications to its Winter Shops program, which will place pop-up shops in otherwise empty storefronts during the off-season.

Mar 14, 2024

Cole Brauer Has Made Her Mark

After successfully completing her 27,759-mile solo nonstop sail around the world last Thursday as part of the Global Solo Challenge, Cole Brauer received myriad thank-yous from near and far for having not only inspired a generation of young women (and at the beginning of International Women’s Month, no less) who might not otherwise have taken up a historically male-dominated sport, but also for having inspired everyone — young and old, male and female. 

Mar 14, 2024

Item of the Week: Moving Max Ernst’s Bed

After Jimmy Ernst died, a huge bed / piece of art from his father, the surrealist Max Ernst, had to be moved from Jimmy’s Lee Avenue house. It wasn’t easy.

Mar 14, 2024

Food

Kira's Cookies Finds Sweet Success

Kira Lipp, diagnosed with food allergies at 18, turned a hobby of baking allergen-free recipes into Kira’s Cookies, a business boosted by a Kardashian Instagram post.

Mar 13, 2024

News for Foodies 03.14 24

New cheese varieties at Loaves and Fishes, St. Paddy’s specials, a Spanish wine dinner, new lemon cookies, the Love Bites benefit, and more.

Mar 13, 2024

News for Foodies 03.07.24

March specials at Hampton Eats, Wolffer's Summer in a Bottle is available for preorder, new Wine Wednesday classes at Nick and Toni’s, and more.

Mar 6, 2024