Isaac Mizrahi Loses Rain Gutters to Thieves
By Taylor K. Vecsey
With copper $4 a pound, high-end Hamptons houses are a tempting target

($/24/2008)    More copper products have been reported missing on the South Fork, including some from the designer Isaac Mizrahi’s house in Bridgehampton.

The price of copper remains at about $4 a pound, and police throughout Suffolk County are investigating the increased number of copper thefts. Mr. Mizrahi filed a report with Southampton Town police on Friday afternoon after he discovered three copper leaders, approximately 60 feet worth, taken from his house on Oak Street. The leaders were worth about $1,000, police said.

In another theft, Adam Silverman reported 70 feet of copper leaders stolen from his house on North Haven last Thursday. He told police that the leaders, worth between $4,500 and $5,000, were taken off his house on North Haven Way sometime after April 6.

Those who stole some sheets of copper from a Water Mill house on the night of April 15 needed a truck and some heavy-lifting equipment to haul the airconditioning units and radiators that they also stole. Kurt Kappel of O’Donoghue and Associates told police the next day that thieves made off with $4,350 worth of goods from the Rose Hill Road house he was working on.

According to a police report, the two Goodman air-conditioning units weighed three tons each, and the five or six radiators, which had been left by a Dumpster along the road, weighed 200 pounds each. The sheets of copper measured one-sixteenth of an inch thick.

In Sag Harbor, Greg Monski told village police that $1,500 worth of copper downspouts and tubing were taken off of his house on Prospect Street sometime before April 16.