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Ditch Plain Neighbors Push Back

On paper, a 2,379-square-foot house on the South Fork may not seem outlandish, but place that house on a .17-acre lot in a flood zone with a raised swimming pool and decking in the middle of Ditch Plain in Montauk, and both neighbors and town planners have a problem.

Mar 30, 2023

East Hampton Town Seeks Volunteer Plover Watchers

Beachgoers will soon see temporary string fencing at sites along 18 miles of ocean and bay shoreline, as the federally and New York State-protected piping plover makes its annual return to East Hampton Town and Village.

Mar 30, 2023

Police & Courts

An East Hampton moviegoer complained to police on Friday afternoon that the theater manager had taken a picture of him. The manager told police she had taken a photo not of him, but rather of the dog he had brought with him to the theater.

Mar 30, 2023

Shane Filasky of East Hampton has been sentenced to one to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony count of third-degree attempted robbery of an East Hampton store on Jan. 26, 2022.

Mar 30, 2023

The Sag Harbor Village treasurer told village police last Thursday that money had been stolen from a village payroll account to the tune of $10,200 via fraudulent checks.

Mar 30, 2023

Government

Owners of the third-largest commercial building in East Hampton Town, the Home Sweet Home warehouse in Wainscott, want to convert it into a self-storage facility, but town planners want to see a smaller building with more space for parking, among other things.

Mar 30, 2023

A puzzle of an application involving two adjacent parcels, a bunch of portable restrooms, access to them, and a house in a commercial neighborhood came before the East Hampton Town Planning Board this month. The immediate issue is that the house, even though it is on a commercially zoned lot, is the parcel’s only legal use (though it pre-exists town zoning and is classed as nonconforming).

Mar 30, 2023

The East Hampton Town Trustees voted on Monday to allocate $83,160 for the 2023 water quality and bottomlands assessment of waters under their jurisdiction.

Mar 30, 2023

The East Hampton Town litter action committee will launch a monthlong No Fling Spring initiative on Earth Day with a cleanup of Springs-Fireplace Road. Beach cleanups and a No Fling Spring Fling dance party in May are also on the agenda.

Mar 30, 2023

Villages

Gun Club Alleges Third-Party Influence in Effort to Shut Its Range

The Maidstone Gun Club, which has been closed since early December by a New York State Supreme Court order as an investigation takes place into errant bullets allegedly reaching nearby houses, has countered a lawsuit seeking its permanent closure with several claims of its own.

Mar 30, 2023

A Champion of ‘Rational Restraint’

Jaine Mehring of Amagansett’s Beach Hampton neighborhood is on a quest to focus attention on the wave of development and redevelopment that is transforming neighborhoods and is characterized by building to the maximum allowable size and lot coverage.

Mar 30, 2023

High-End Home Sales Stagnating

In East Hampton Town’s villages and hamlets, yes, sales are down, but it’s because the inventory of available properties is at a historic low, brokers here are saying. "Our prices have not dropped off a cliff — we just don’t have any houses to sell.”

Mar 30, 2023

Arts

‘Two Jews Making Food’ and a Whole Lot More

Rebecca Edana and Amy Kirwin dish about their show “Two Jews Making Food” and how it went from Facebook Live to LTV Studios, survived a pandemic, and gained its first “super fan.”

Mar 29, 2023

Hamptons Whodunit, a four-day festival devoted to mystery and true crime, will take place in East Hampton Village from April 13 through 16 at various venues and feature dozens of authors, escape room-style challenges, a real-life crime scene bus tour, and even a "Who Killed the Mayor?" game.

Mar 29, 2023

The HamptonsFilm Screenwriters Lab will return to East Hampton from April 14 to 16 with three screenplays to be polished by three mentors.

Mar 29, 2023

As part of a continuous program of pocket exhibitions focused on its collection, the Museum of Modern Art will open a gallery devoted to John Giorno's Dial-A-Poem project on Friday, April 7. 

Mar 29, 2023

Food

‘Two Jews Making Food’ and a Whole Lot More

Rebecca Edana and Amy Kirwin dish about their show “Two Jews Making Food” and how it went from Facebook Live to LTV Studios, survived a pandemic, and gained its first “super fan.”

Mar 29, 2023

News for Foodies 03.30.23

Passover meals for dining in and out, a giant chocolate bunny raffle and other Easter fun at 1770 House, Mavericks in Montauk soon to open, and more.

Mar 29, 2023

A Melange From Near and Far at L'Epicuriste

L’Epicuriste in Bridgehampton offers carefully selected speciality food items as well as tableware, kitchen items, flowers, vegetables, local honey, even artwork.

Mar 23, 2023