AMAGANSETT

F. and M. Singer to T. and A. Coletti, 132 Miankoma Lane, .56 acre, Oct. 5, $3,800,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

S. Lampert to 339 Butter L.L.C., 339 Butter Lane, 2.62 acres, Oct. 1, $3,750,000.

EAST HAMPTON 

US Bank National Association to El Bardissi and Navab Bosh, 19 Powder Hill Lane, 1.33 acres, Aug. 8, $910,000.

D. Gorrie to A. Rufino, 3 Spread Oak Lane, 1 acre, Sept. 27, $1,825,000.

L. Capozzi to S. and A. Lampard, 7 Shorewood Drive, .92 acre, Sept. 27, $1,350,000.

G. Brunn to Q. and C. Chan, 6 Central Avenue, .46 acre (vacant), Oct. 23, $337,000.

MONTAUK

Sennefelder Properties to 467 East Lake Drive L.L.C., 467 East Lake Drive and lot 27.001, 7 acres, Oct. 1, $5,000,000.

M. and S. Hankin to D. and S. Hughes, 236 Edgemere Street, Unit 229, Oct. 1, $245,000.

E. Conway Trusts to 5 OVT L.L.C., 5 Oceanview Terrace, 1 acre, Oct. 9, $5,000,000.

NOYAC

Gotlop L.L.C. to S. Loeffler, 11 Club Lane, 1.5 acres (vacant), Sept. 21, $600,000.

G. Harder and L. Grossman 

to Thompson and A. Rich­mond, 20 Windermere Drive, Baypoint, .23 acre, Sept. 21, $1,640,000.

SAG HARBOR

Slocum and Palmer Terrace to B. Ainsley, 9 Palmer Terrace, .24 acre, Sept. 26, $2,475,000.

M. Lefkowitz and K. Dupre to 

R. and T. McCallum, 31 Archi­bald Way, .58 acre, Oct. 16, $2,400,000.

SAGAPONACK

D. and R. Borkowsky to M. and J. Miller, 50 Northwest Path, 1.29 acres, Sept. 26, $900,000.

SPRINGS

G. Coulter to S. Sassoon and M. Lin, 1077 Fireplace Road, .78 acre, Aug. 22, $835,000.

WAINSCOTT

A. Yarnold and L. and E. Hunt to M. Tulloch and C. Campbell, 97 Wainscott Road Northwest, .36 acre, Sept. 27, $1,200,000.

WATER MILL

M. Rohrlich to 97 Wild Goose Lane, 97 Wild Goose Lane, 1.5 acres, Sept. 27, $4,000,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton.

AMAGANSETT

A. Loris to 105 Montauk Hwy. L.L.C., 105 Montauk Highway, 1.05 acres, Aug. 30, $1,925,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

Radian Guaranty Inc. to Home Design Group NYC, 778 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, .18 acre, Sept. 14, $350,000.

LUCASA L.L.C. to PAL Woodruff, L.L.C., 56 Woodruff Lane, .5 acre, Sept. 21, $1,320,000.

C. and J. Chung to J. and C. Davis, 393 Lumber Lane, 1.02 acres, Oct. 10, $4,375,000.

EAST HAMPTON 

E.B. Porter to W. Segarra, 26 Huntting Road, .3 acre, July 25, $450,000.

J. and J. Doyle to M and T Bank, 17 Wooded Oak Lane, .46 acre, Aug. 1, $750,760.

L. and M. Tanguy to R. Ziskin and S. Bresler, 429 Hand’s Creek Road, 2 acres, Oct. 4, $1,450,000.

S. Anker to G. Jesel, 15 Harvest Lane, .62 acre, Oct. 11, $1,236,750.

B. Labiner and K. Gans to M. and S. Cafaro, 698 Hand’s Creek Road, .75 acre, Oct. 12, $1,400,000.

D. and C. McCrone to J. Rosenberg, 317 Two Holes of Water Road, 2.9 acres, Oct. 23, $1,750,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

N. Lazard to Pantigo Rd. 61 L.L.C., 61 Pantigo Road, .47 acre, Aug. 27, $1,200,000.

N. Grover and R. Grover Trusts to 132 Apaquogue L.L.C., 132 Apaquogue Road, 1.08 acres, Oct. 4, $8,500,000.

MONTAUK

R. Scollan to T. Culliton Trust, 79 Monroe Drive, .47 acre, Oct. 10, $5,300,000.

D. Webb to Devocean Properties, 17 Upland Road, 1.5 acres, Oct. 19, $1,599,000.

NORTH HAVEN

P. Anfolisi to D. and L. Geffen, 41 Sunset Beach Road, .51 acre, Oct. 15, $1,100,000.

NOYAC

S. Vitalo to J., E., and S. Jimenez, 35 Stoney Hill Road, .43 acre, Sept. 28, $710,000.

Sag Harbor QPRT to B. Obeidzinski, 36 Shady Cove Lane, .51 acre, Oct. 10, $1,250,000.

M. and Y. Bockstein to A. Seldman and A. Finfrock 16 Northside Drive, and lot 38.035, 1.04 acres, Oct. 12, $1,545,000.

SAG HARBOR

Wood, Aubry, and Aubry Jr. to J. Aubry and E. Arnold, 20 Brandywine Drive, .51 acre, Sept. 28, $612,440.

E. Bowser (by administrator) to 25 Liberty L.L.C., 25 Liberty Street, .28 acre, Oct. 2, $862,000.

Water Street Development to F. Mori, 21 West Water Street, Unit 2C, Oct. 2, $2,108,400.

G. and P. Slattery to G. and D. Valentine, 21 Wildwood Road, .46 acre, Oct. 16, $995,000.

SAGAPONACK

J. Farrell (by executora) to Striano Family Trust, 36 Sagg Pond Court, 1.31 acres, Oct. 3, $8,200,000.

P. Guarino to 59 Sandune L.L.C., 59 Sandune Court, .94 acre, Oct. 16, $7,583,000.

WATER MILL

J. and T. Smith to Old Mill Parcel L.L.C., 20 Old Mill Road, 1.75 acres, Oct. 4, $1,800,000.

K. King Trust to Sag Harbor QPRT, 1605 Deerfield Road, 6.2 acres, Oct. 10, $1,648,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton.

News of Harbor Books 

Harbor Books will be leaving its current location at 20 Main Street in Sag Harbor at the end of February, Taylor Rose Berry, the store’s owner, announced via a Facebook post on Nov. 23. She cited rising rent as the reason for the move.

“While we were able to sustain our lease since we opened, it is simply not possible to sustain with the rent increase scheduled for the next lease term,” she wrote. 

Ms. Berry, who opened the store in the fall of 2014, said she was optimistic that she would find a new space in Sag Harbor for her business, which sells Dobra tea as well as books. “A lot of creative options have been presented to us. It’s just a matter of finding something that fits in concept as well as financially,” she said on Monday. 

After the recent closing of the Adornments jewelry store and the imminent departure of the Country Lane gift shop, the move will mean yet another change to the lineup of retailers on Main Street. 

“A lot of people have been expressing their concern and love,” Ms. Berry said of the reaction to the news. 

While she considers alternate locations, she is focused on making the most of the Christmas shopping season and beyond. “We’re still here until February, and we’re going to be doing lots of fun stuff,” she said. “Remember, Sag Harbor is a community that has lots of great places to shop for the holidays.” J.B.

Architecture Firms Shine

Two South Fork architecture firms announced awards this week for recent projects. 

At Interior Design magazine’s annual Best of the Year Awards reception at the Javits Center in Manhattan on Friday, Bates Masi + Architects of East Hampton won in the beach house category for a project in Annapolis, Md. The firm was also given an Award of Merit for a Georgica Close, East Hampton, project at the 2018 Daniel J. Rowen Memorial Design Awards hosted by A.I.A. Peconic at the Ross School on Saturday. 

Also at that program, Blaze Makoid Architecture of Bridgehampton received the People’s Choice Award for a waterfront house on North Haven it calls South Harbor, on Sag Harbor Cove.

After zigzagging between the south and north sides of Main Street in Amagansett for at least 25 years, Beth Eckhardt, her flowers, and her home furnishings items have now alighted at what may be her most plum spot, at 248 Main Street in the building that used to house Decorum.

Given all her moves over the years, one can’t help but wonder if she ever unpacks. “We can move out and set up in a new place in three days,” she said the other day, a task made easier if the landlord lets her start moving things in before the official start of the lease. “Once I leave the old spot, the girls are in charge of the packing.” No mean feat either, given how much of Flowers by Beth’s merchandise is fragile — vintage glass and ceramic vases, glasses, antiques, and midcentury modern furniture and décor. She admitted that it is sometimes difficult at first to find things in the new venue.

In this particularly homey spot, Ms. Eckhardt has added many shelves and has lots of room to extend her creative reach. Going there is like walking into a shelter magazine, with many smallish areas, each of which is devoted to a particular activity, such as the plant potting room or the floral design area. She said the plants she has for sale are happy next to the window at the back of the shop that opens onto a back deck, where they can live in the warm weather.

The shop is a hotbed of ideas for gift giving and for decorating houses, apartments, weddings, or parties. Ms. Eckhardt has a good eye and chooses her merchandise well, importing table linens, lamps, candles, furniture, cache-pots, mirrors, and accessories from France and Portugal, as well as sourcing antiques and other merchandise from estate sales and other enterprises.

And let’s not forget the flowers: scented tuberose, herbal topiaries, peonies, hydrangeas, and orchids, which she mixes with herbs, grasses, trees, lighting, and more to set whatever mood a customer might be longing for.

Ms. Eckhardt is sought after especially for her wedding arrangements, and delivers seven days a week to Southampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor, East Hampton, Montauk, and beyond. Her shop is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Susan Nieland used to sell her handmade stone and metal jewelry at trunk shows, but they were lonely. She would lay out her work in a shop or other location, send out some email notices, and wait to make sales. Business was okay, she recalled this week. People would come, maybe buy something, perhaps just have a look around. 

“It was fine. I just thought it would be more fun if there were more people there,” she said.

And so Ms. Nieland’s annual holiday time market came to be. She invited a few other craftspeople and artists (“makers,” she called them), and they, in turn, let their networks of friends and past customers know. The first such show, in about 2007, was a success, she said. 

Other responsibilities intervened, and it was a few years before the event resumed. Promotion was largely through word of mouth, but the sales grew, helped in no small measure by the feeling of a gathering of friends as opposed to the usual Christmas crafts bazaars.

Now, in a first, Ms. Nieland’s show will be held in two locations, the first on Sunday at the Spur entrepreneurs’ workspace on Elm Street in Southampton. That sale, from noon to 5 p.m., will feature about 16 makers, most, if not all, lined up by Ms. Nieland and informally vetted by Judy D’Mello, a fabric artist and contributing writer for The Star. 

“She’s my sounding board,” Ms. Nieland said. The second will be on Dec. 15 from 1 to 8 p.m. at her house at 21 Gould Street in East Hampton.

Now in its fourth year in that location, the sale is increasingly popular. “People call to find out if I am having it again this year,” she said, noting that she might have to find a bigger place to have it next year.

The day is a group effort. Vendors supply wine and small somethings for shoppers to nosh on. “It’s fun. It’s a party,” Ms. Nieland said.

She still seeks out vendors herself, for the most part, and social media is a big part of that. She found Anne Nelson Sanford of Shelter Island, the creator of Lurk Perfume, on Instagram. “It turned out she follows me, too,” Ms. Nieland said.

Another creative type she found was Shane Herrick, whose Pine Baron items include leather passport and notebook sleeves, wallets, handmade metal jewelry, and even skateboard decks.

Roisin Bateman, Alice Hope, Jill Musnicki, and Rosario Varela are among the visual artists taking part. Stanley and Sons of the S&S Corner Shop in Springs will show a selection of housewares and accessories.

Taylor Barton, a folk singer who lives in Amagansett, will sell her CDs and have her guitar at hand to sing a few songs from her new album.

“Last year I had one guy who got Christmas gifts for his mother, wife, and two daughters,” she said. “I loved to hear that.”

Ms. Nieland’s jewelry will also be for sale at a holiday market at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack on Saturday, along with a select group of vendors. Ten percent of the sales at the Spur on Sunday will go to the East Hampton Food Pantry.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

CVR First L.L.C. to 87 Birchwood L.L.C., 87 Birchwood Lane, .69 acre, Oct. 15, $3,200,000.

EAST HAMPTON 

L. Young to S. Miller and J. Prime, 168 Two Holes of Water Road, .68 acre, Oct. 10, $920,000.

R. and R. Woolcott to D. Ardi Trust, 20 Boxwood Street, .34 acre, Oct. 12, $2,500,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

S. Kier to S. and A. MacIsaac, 21 Jericho Close Lane, 2.2 acres, Oct. 9, $4,762,500.

MONTAUK

L. and L. Alessi to 1 South Durham L.L.C., 1 South Durham Road, .74 acre, Sept. 12, $999,000.

M. and K. Allende Trusts to W. Wilson and C. Humphreys, 345 Flamingo Avenue, .26 acre, Oct. 16, $594,000.

M. and J. Palladino to C. and M. Vose 26 Wills Point Road, 1.4 acres, Oct. 16, $3,425,000.

NOYAC

U.S. Bank National Association to Goncalves, Esteves, and Cue, 136 Clay Pit Road, 1.6 acres, Aug. 23, $660,000.

Davis Realty Corp. to C. Petrie, 17 Emersen Place, 1.03 acres, Oct. 15, $1,575,000.

Lil Surf L.L.C. to M. Gluckman, 6 Ridge Drive, .35 acre, Oct. 19, $999,000.

SAG HARBOR

G. Berkowitz Salva to P. and G. Holdings L.L.C., 68 West Water Street, Unit 29, Oct. 19, $905,000.

F. and D. Balsam to W. McCaffrey, 16 Palmer Terrace, .24 acre, Oct. 26, $1,379,000.

SPRINGS

G. Creaser to P. Harden and E. Sjoman, 61 Sandra Road, .48 acre, Sept. 27, $600,000.

Wittosch Family Trust to C. Illescas, 62 Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road, .9 acre, Oct. 4, $580,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton.

The word came down right after Thanksgiving, and it was a complete surprise to Eddie Downes, a presser who has worked since 1988 at East Hampton Cleaners. He and the shop’s other three employees were told the store at 104 Newtown Lane is closing and is accepting no more work, effective immediately. Patrons need to pick up their cleaning by the end of the year, when the doors will be shut for good.

“People aren’t happy,” Mr. Downes said yesterday when asked what customers have said about losing a service that Mr. Downes said has been on the site since the late 1970s. “They like their cleaners.”

Patrons liked the convenience of having their cleaners right on a main drag in town. They liked the fact that East Hampton Cleaners washes everything, from shirts to sheets. They like the shop’s little idiosyncratic touches, like the tip jar sign that reads, “Tips are like hugs without all the touching,” and a plaque that reads, “I don’t sweat, I sparkle.”

Now, Mr. Downes and Grace LaBarbera, who has worked at the shop for six years, are the only staffers left. The other two left immediately after they were told the store is closing. 

Mr. Downes said the explanation they were given was that Ben Suglia, who also operates Mattituck Laundry, Greenport Laundromat, and a plant in Riverhead, “didn’t want to have the business anymore. And the property owner wants to sell.”

“So that’s why we’re at where we’re at today,” Mr. Downes said. “The property is not even listed for sale yet.”

Mr. Suglia was not available for comment yesterday, said an employee at his Mattituck location. 

Mr. Downes, who lives in Sag Harbor, and Ms. LaBarbera, who resides in Springs, said they were both offered positions at Mr. Suglia’s Riverhead plant, but they are unsure if they will accept.

Between now and the end of the year, they will be staffing the shop from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. Ms. LaBarbera said she is calling some patrons to let them know they have items they need to pick up, but for the most part, “The word is out.”

AMAGANSETT

J. and T. Novogratz to C. Dawson and K. Slicklein 30 Laurel Hill Lane, 1.66 acres, Oct. 10, $3,410,000.

N. Kenner to Dunenothing L.L.C., 57 Marine Boulevard, .69 acre, Oct. 26, $5,000,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

M. and D. Paley to B. Blattman and J. Borg, 35 Jack and Jill Drive, .92 acre, Oct. 9, $6,400,000.

M. and R. Ende to 379 Jobs L.L.C., 379 Job’s Lane, 1.1 acres, Oct. 11, $10,900,000.

EAST HAMPTON

S. Mellert and E. Varela to S. Seguna, 64 Settlers Landing Lane, .56 acre, Oct. 1, $1,185,000.

E.B.B. L.L.C. to 30 Ocean View L.L.C., 17 Great Oak Way, 1.94 acres (vacant), Oct. 29, $750,000.

A. and T. Passaretti to Levesque and Currais, 19 Mulford Avenue, .37 acre, Oct. 23, $955,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

P. Wilson to M. and L. Scheinman, 189 Further Lane, 3.22 acres, Nov. 2, $13,600,000.

MONTAUK

G. Meskill Trust to J. and R. Bocchino, 21 South Fulton Street, Unit 32D, Oct. 29, $730,000.

J. Levine to G. and S. Harris, 21 South Fulton Street, Unit 33, Oct. 26, $775,000.

C. Pedersen (by executor) to 21 South Euclid L.L.C., 21 South Euclid Avenue, .43 acre, Nov. 1, $1,300,000.

SAG HARBOR

L. Goodman to 44 Richards L.L.C., 44 Richards Drive, .22 acre, Oct. 29, $725,000.

SPRINGS

B. Chiles III and Austin to Town of East Hampton, 36 Gann Road, 1.22 acres, Aug. 31, $2,100,000.

R. Sager and N. Elliot to P. and N. Taselaar, 33 Breeze Hill Road, .43 acre, Oct. 24, $2,300,000.

J. Karfo to G. and H. Caputo, 2 Highland Boulevard, .5 acre, Sept. 26, $630,000.

WATER MILL

Lavinio and Bloostein to 136 Upper Seven Ponds Road, 136 Upper Seven Ponds Road, .5 acre, Oct. 23, $925,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton.

London Jewelers announced last Thursday that it has launched a trade-in program for luxury watches. Customers can choose whether to receive the cash value for a watch or get a store credit that is 20 percent higher than the quoted price. 

The parent company of the boutique on Main Street is partnering with Crown and Caliber, an online consignment store for pre-owned luxury watches, which will provide appraisals based on such factors as the brand name of the watch, the model, and the estimated age. 

The trade-in process, which takes place on London Jeweler’s website, begins by checking to see if a watch is among the brands accepted by Crown and Caliber. If so, a quote request can be initiated, and if the company is interested in buying the watch it will email an offer within three business days.

To complete the transaction, the company will then inspect and authenticate the watch (it will provide a pre-insured mailing label for delivery), and within three to five days it will confirm the offer. A check or a store credit will subsequently be mailed to the seller.

In 1949, Mary and Joe Damark opened a small market in the front of their house on Three Mile Harbor Road. “You would sit at their kitchen table, and you could see the customers in the store,” recalled Bruce Damark, the couple’s grandson and the owner, with his wife, Michiko, of the now super-sized Damark’s Deli, which had a grand opening on Friday.

Mr. Damark took time this week to reminisce  in an office on the lower level of the more than 11,000-square-foot market, which contains a pizza oven, a lobster tank, two kitchens, an expansive display case for prepared foods, a dining area, wire shelving filled with snacks, condiments, and sundries, and a farm stand’s worth of fresh produce.

During the summer while growing up, Mr. Damark used to work in the deli, which was later run by his parents. Even then, he said he had ambitious plans for the family business. “I remember cooking egg sandwiches in the kitchen after college, and I would talk to my brother about expanding.”  

The dream persisted after he and Michiko bought the market in 2001, and a plan to transform the formerly cramped space into a megastore started to come together in 2009. The East Hampton Town Planning Board approved a site plan that included a second-floor apartment, in 2012.

“When we got a price for how much it would cost to build, we said that’s going to be too expensive, so let’s cut the apartment off, raise the ceiling. Let’s push it out a little more, and do this and do that,” Mr. Damark said, explaining the current configuration. The main floor is a 5,400-square-foot, loft-like space with a triple-high ceiling that lends an air of grandeur. 

As for the exterior, which some social media savants have compared to the White House and Buckingham Palace, Mr. Damark said he was inspired by both Sag Harbor’s architecture and wanting the building to serve notice that you are entering Springs. “Let’s make something that makes a mark,” he said. 

Construction began in October 2017 when his grandparents’ house was torn down to make room for the new store. “The house was so old, you couldn’t add on to it,” said Mr. Damark, who got emotional while discussing the demolition. 

On the day he reopened the deli, he wrote a Facebook post saying, “Don’t think our family won’t miss grandma and grandpa’s house. It wasn’t easy taking a bulldozer to the place we would [go] after school, eat Yodels and milk, and watch the Three Stooges on WPIX, and work summers as kids. The fact of the matter was that the building was shot.”

With demolition complete, the goal was to open the market in nine months.  However, Mr. Damark said a series of snafus, involving subcontractors, the Suffolk County Water Authority, and the PSEG utility, kept delaying progress. “First it was supposed to open on, like, Memorial Day, then Fourth of July, and it just went on and on and on,” he said. 

He and Michiko were “obsessive and hands-on” about getting all the details right, he said. “We went back and forth figuring out the footage between the pastry case and the coffee counter, and made painstaking decisions about the chairs and tables.” 

They also curated what the market would sell, seeking to appeal to a wide cross section of people.

“We looked at the stuff that Whole Foods, Provisions, and Wild by Nature carry,” he said. “That’s the kind of direction we wanted to go in. Plus we wanted to have the regular egg sandwiches, and you gotta do some down-and-dirty macaroni and cheese.” 

About 80 percent of the deli’s menu now was on the former one, he said, but people hadn’t stopped in before the renovation to see what was available, apparently put off by the previous parking lot‚ a sliver of asphalt from which drivers were forced to back into Three Mile Harbor Road traffic. “They didn’t want to take their life in their hands,” he said. A more ample, L-shaped lot is now along the back of the building.

In addition to sandwiches and standard deli fare — along with coleslaw and potato salad made from his grandmother’s recipes, Mr. Damark opted for a “take-no-prisoners” approach to the store’s offerings. He said that was why he put in the pizza oven and has stocked up on gourmet products and high-end prepared dishes, such as garlic and herb-crusted filet mignon. “Our underlying theme is ‘a little something for everyone,’ ” he said. 

Even though the new mix includes some fancy foods, he said prices are still reasonable. “I don’t want people coming in and going, ‘Oh, man, I’m not coming here. This place is too expensive.’ We don’t want to alienate the blue-collar community. They’re going to be the ones to carry us in the winter.”

On the day before opening, Mr. Damark said he and his wife were up late handwriting price cards. After three hours’ sleep, he said he welcomed their first customer and treated her to free coffee. 

As people continued to flow in over the following days, it dawned on him, he said, that the years of planning had finally paid off. “When the customers were in the store and buying pizzas, and you see the pizzas coming out of the oven, it was like, ‘Holy shit, man, this really worked out.’ ” 

Conversations with several patrons, many of whom seemed to be studying the market as if it were the Taj Mahal, made it clear they were impressed. “It’s more than I ever expected it to be,” said East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana, a Springs resident, who stopped in early the first day and excitedly pointed out the lobster tank. “I’m so glad they were able to do it, and they did it right.”

Mr. Damark said there were still some kinks to work out, such as cash register glitches and the system used to send orders to the kitchen.

But they haven’t stopped him from planning for the future. He expects to offer catering by summer, he’s looking into delivery options, and he eventually wants to add Asian dishes to the menu, firing up a five-wok stove he installed. 

Mr. Damark said his grandparents would be thrilled that he had transformed the market into a far more expansive enterprise than the one they started in 1949. “They were entrepreneurs so they would say, ‘Go for it man. Why didn’t you do it sooner?’ ” 

And even with all the changes, he said it still feels like the market he remembers from childhood. “I know it sounds really corny, but in the old deli I always felt like I was in my grandmother’s house, and that I can never shake.”