Update, April 29, 10:10 a.m.: The 1968 Ford Mustang that smashed into the front of a Sag Harbor store on Thursday evening once belonged to the novelist and playwright Truman Capote. Myron Clement, who, with his husband, Joe Petrocik, were friends with the "In Cold Blood" author, was identified by Village Police Chief Austin McGuire as the driver. In fact, the Mustang's license plate was CAPOTE, the chief said.

Mr. Clement accidentally drove the classic car up over the curb and into the brick facade of the Henry Lehr store at 96 Main Street at about 7 p.m. He reportedly put his foot on the gas instead of the brakes after he mistakenly thought he was in reverse. Mr. Clement was taken to Southampton Hospital with a minor injury and held overnight. The building was not structurally damaged, but a plate glass window was shattered. No one else was hurt.

Mr. Clement and Mr. Petrocik allowed the Mustang, described as cherry red, to be displayed at the Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt's Black and White benefit, honoring Mr. Capote, in 2010. The Mustang suffered front-end damage, but the extent was unclear. The couple, who were close friends with Mr. Capote until his death, had had it restored.

It has been said that Mr. Capote wrote part of the novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's" at his Sagaponack house. Along with his partner, the author and playwright Jack Dunphy, some of Mr. Capote's ashes were spread in Crooked Pond, an area of the Long Pond Greenbelt that was purchased with money donated from the sale of their estate. The Greenbelt runs from Sag Harbor to Bridgehampton. Mr. Capote died in 1984 and Mr. Dunphy in 1992. 

Originally, April 28, 8:06 p.m.: A 1968 Ford Mustang convertible crashed into the Henry Lehr storefront on Sag Harbor's Main Street Thursday evening, breaking the glass window and leaving the driver with a minor injury, according to Village Police Chief Austin McGuire. 

Police and the Sag Harbor Fire Department were called to 96 Main Street at 6:59 p.m., after the driver ran up over the curb with the classic red car, hitting one side of the brick facade and glass windows on one side of the entrance. The man, whose name was not immediately released, had a possible eye injury, and the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him to Southampton Hospital. No one else was injured. 

The plate glass window on the front of the store was shattered. The building owner was reportedly on his way to board up the broken window. The chief said the building didn't appear to have sustained any structural damage.

A pedestrian was flown to Stony Brook University Hospital with a head injury Saturday night after being hit by a vehicle in Bridgehampton, Southampton Town police said Sunday.

Michael McCrum, 61, of Bridgehampton, was hit by a car at about 10:30 p.m. while he was crossing Main Street in front of Starbucks. He was flown by helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.

On Sunday his condition was reported to be serious, according to a hospital representative.

No charges were filed following the crash. Police have not yet provided any details on the driver of the car that struck Mr. McCrum.

The accident site is not far from the Main Street crosswalk near the Bridgehampton Post Office where Anna Pump, the longtime proprietor of Loaves & Fishes in Sagaponack and a well-known chef and cookbook author, was struck by a pickup truck last October. That accident happened at 10 p.m., almost the same time as Saturday's. Ms. Pump did not survive her injuries.

East Hampton Village police stopped a man for talking on his cellphone while driving on Monday afternoon and soon discovered that he was wanted in Brazil on drug trafficking charges.

An officer spotted a driver talking on a cellphone without a hands-free device while on Main Street near David's Lane at about 1:30 p.m. The officer pulled the 2000 Ford van over and discovered that the driver, Wesley De Oliveira Costa, 28, of Holtsville had no license. It is the Village Police Department's policy to arrest anyone caught driving without a license, instead of just writing a field appearance ticket. 

At headquarters, Mr. De Oliveria Costa was fingerprinted, and police found through Interpol that he was a wanted fugitive in Brazil. Chief Larsen said the man seemed unaware that there was a warrant out for his arrest. Though he is living in Holtsville, he is a citizen of Brazil. 

While village police still have not received more information, Chief Gerard Larsen said the charges appear serious, as there was information that Mr. De Oliveria Costa faces up to 30 years in prison. 

The department contacted the United State Department of Justice, which, in turn, contacted Brazil on Monday at 3:15 p.m. As of Tuesday at 1 p.m., the D.O.J. still had not heard back from Brazilian authorities. In the meantime, village police contacted the Department of Homeland Security, which has ordered that the man be held, and federal officers are going to take him into custody. 

Chief Larsen explained that Mr. De Oliveria Costa would not be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court because the only charges the local police have levied are traffic infractions, including unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and driving without a hands-free device.

Had Brazilian police responded in a timely fashion, village police could have charged him with being a fugitive from justice, which would have begun an extradition process to Brazil, the chief said. "Since the feds are taking him, they will handle that now," he said.

The chief said the situation was an example of why the department's policy to fingerprint those found driving without a license is a good one. There have been other examples of the policy working, though none to this magnitude, he said.

The East Hampton High School boys tennis team clinched the league title — and remained undefeated in league play — in a 4-3 squeaker over Westhampton Beach here on April 20.

In other Bonac sports action this past week, the girls and boys track teams defeated their Mount Sinai counterparts, the margins of victory being 83-67 in the girls’ case and 73-70 in the boys’.

The boys’ win came as a bit of a surprise. Bill Herzog, the coach, initially thought the team, which dropped two of the three relays, had lost, as did Kevin Barry, the boys cross-country coach, who was one of the spectators. “We’ll be better in the fall,” Barry said when the meet was over.

The baseball team, which has been taking its lumps lately, at the hands of Mount Sinai and Miller Place, played creditably Monday in the series opener here with John Glenn, but the visitors’ left-handed ace, Tyler Arella, who’s going to Villanova, prevailed 3-1.

Kyle McKee went all the way for the Bonackers, taking the loss. Glenn scored two unearned runs in the first inning and added another run in the top of the seventh by way of a bunt, a stolen base, and a sharp ground ball down the first-base line that Will Mackin could not stop.

East Hampton got one run back in the bottom half. Mackin drew a walk to lead off, and was replaced on the basepaths by Luke Vaziri. Phil Zablotsky then reached first base, and Vaziri advanced to third, on a potential double play grounder to the second baseman. 

Vaziri came home when the next batter, Kurt Matthews, hit into a force play at second, after which Kevin Boles — one of four seniors on the team — hit into another force at second and Hunter Fromm took a called third strike to end the game.

Mike Ritsi, the coach, said afterward that the team has been making too many errors and perhaps was taking its losses too lightly. “I’m seeing too many smiles,” said Ritsi, who in his playing days here was known for the gritty way he came back from a potentially career-ending knee injury he suffered while quarterbacking the football team. 

One of his players, the sophomore left fielder, Augie Schultz, has posted a petition on MoveOn.org proposing that Section XI, the governing body of Suffolk high school sports, let the team play closer to home and against opposition that more nearly matches its talent level. “Clearly, we are in the wrong league for our skill set and geographical placement,” he says. “We have been demoralized on and off the field. . . . The worst part is that we must travel at least an hour and 15 minutes to every away game. It affects our grades, our sleep, our morale, and it just makes life harder.”

When asked about it, Ritsi said, “Our team plays in a very tough league — Bayport-Blue Point won the states a couple of years ago, and the league has six Division 1 pitchers, but that’s the way it is. Hopefully, we’re going to get stronger, increase our mental toughness, and learn how to win. Kyle, Will, Tristan Larsen, who wasn’t here today, and Kevin Boles are the seniors, so we’re a young team. . . . John Glenn’s other pitchers aren’t as good as Arella. Hopefully, we’ll have a good one for you Thursday.”

The East Hampton-Westhampton Beach tennis match looked initially as if it would be a ho-hummer — the Bonackers had, after all, won 6-1 at Westhampton on March 29 — but then, after Julian MacGurn, Jack Louchheim, and Ravi MacGurn had posted straight-set singles wins, things began to get interesting. 

All the doubles matches went three sets, as did Jonny De Groot’s at fourth singles. The second doubles team of Jordan Foster and Jack Murphy — cheered on by their teammates, who were anxiously looking on — pulled it out, taking a third-set tiebreaker from Adam Shera and Owen Williams by a score of 7-4, thanks largely to Foster’s winners at the net.

Foster and Murphy’s match, which ended with De Groot still on the court with Josh Kaplan, put East Hampton over the top, extending its undefeated league mark to 10-0. A 6-1 win over the Ross School two days later upped it to 11-0.

De Groot, a freshman from Bridgehampton, took the first set 6-4, but, finding himself increasingly lured by his smaller opponent into a cat-and-mouse game, wound up losing the next two sets 6-1, 6-2. It was De Groot’s first loss this season.

As for track, the girls swept the 100 (Allura Leggard, Tyra Stewart, and Gabby McKay), the 200 (Leggard, Stewart, and Cecilia Blowe), and the long jump (Blowe, Devon Brown, and McKay) in its meet at Mount Sinai on April 19. 

Yani Cuesta’s other winners that day were Nina Piacentine, in the 1,500-meter racewalk, Taliya Hayes, in the shot-put, with a season-best heave of 30 feet 1 inch, Christine Malecki, in the discus, Danielle Futerman, in the pole vault, and the 4-by-100 (McKay, Stewart, Blowe, and Leggard) and 4-by-400 (Lateshia Peters, Blowe, Leggard, and Brown) relay teams.

Cuesta said her team is to participate in the Westhampton Beach invitational Saturday. Some of her charges were to have contended in the Steeple Fest at Port Jefferson Tuesday.

Guild Hall will present “The Night Alive,” a play by Conor McPherson, from Wednesday through May 22, with performances at 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. The production is directed by Stephen Hamilton and will feature J. Stephen Brantley, Molly Carden, Rob Di Sario, Tuck Milligan, and Kevin O’Rourke.

First performed at London’s Donmar Warehouse in 2013, the play is set in a squalid, cluttered flat inhabited by Tommy, a defeated middle-aged man who brings home a young woman, an occasional prostitute covered in blood, whom he has rescued from a beating. The play follows the relationship between the two damaged people and the effects of Tommy’s good deed on his uncle Maurice, who owns the building, and Doc, his sometime roommate.

Mr. McPherson, one of Ireland’s leading contemporary playwrights, “has a singular gift for making the ordinary glow with an extra dimension, like a gentle phosphorescence waiting to be coaxed into radiance,” according to Ben Brantley, who reviewed the play when it opened to enthusiastic audiences in London.

Mr. O’Rourke, who won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his work in the HBO series “Boardwalk Empire” and has a distinguished career in theater, film, and television, will play Tommy. 

“I got a call from my agent who heard from a casting director that they were looking for the role of Tommy in ‘The Night Alive,’ ” he said while taking a break from a two-day stint on the set of “Law and Order.” “I had not read the play, but when they said it’s going to be six weeks in East Hampton, I said, ‘Well, I bet I can get some golf in.’ I read it, and it’s just a terrific play and a great part. I thought, I’m an idiot if I don’t take this opportunity to do it.”

While he hadn’t worked with Mr. Hamilton, they had many mutual friends, and a telephone conversation ensued during which “we had this commonality. We started talking about the play, and the Irish aspects of it, which really appealed to me. We agreed there was a kind of dark humor in it that recalled Beckett or Pinter. I told him I would love to do it.”

Mr. O’Rourke has never acted on the East End, but he has family in Sag Harbor and close friends in Amagansett, so he is no stranger here. “The play is really powerful, it has this wonderful, existential dark humor. It’s about a guy sort of in a midlife crisis, and, being of a certain age, I can relate to that. The way it’s being staged is very intimate, very close.”

He was referring to the fact that the audience, which will be limited to 75, is seated onstage in what is known as an “alley staging.” The performance space is a 25-by-10-foot rectangle, with the audience on the two long sides and doors and walls at the two ends.

“We’re also learning how to talk with Irish accents,” said Mr. O’Rourke. “Three of us from the cast were at Rowdy Hall the other day, and we decided we would talk with Irish accents all night. All the waitresses thought we were from Ireland.”

Tickets are $35, $33 for members. Due to the limited seating, theatergoers have been encouraged to purchase their general-admission tickets in advance.

Montauk’s Second House, built in 1797 to house a shepherd overseeing the cattle, horses, and sheep that grazed on the area’s pasturelands, and now owned by East Hampton Town, is set for restoration — a “full steam ahead” plan, according to Supervisor Larry Cantwell, to give the old building on Fort Pond some much-needed care and return it to its original appearance.

According to a report prepared recently by Robert Hefner, a historic preservation consultant to the town, the building was remodeled in 1912 as a private summer cottage. The current project, Mr. Hefner has advised, should do away with the remodeling and hew to the original.

Since 1968, Second House has been operated as a museum by the Montauk Historical Society, but it has fallen into disrepair. An 1809 barn on the property has also “seriously deteriorated and needs repair,” Mr. Hefner said.

Members of the society attended a recent town board meeting at which Mr. Hefner presented his report, and lauded his work in outlining the history of the house and the Montauk pastureland. “The Montauk pasture was the engine of East Hampton’s agrarian economy, and supported its prosperity,” Mr. Hefner told the board. His entire report can be found online at MontaukHistoricalSociety.org. 

Town records from as early as 1661 document the use of Montauk land as grazing land for stock, after groups of East Hampton residents, called proprietors, acquired title from the Montaukett Indians to tracts from Napeague to Montauk. From the 1660s into the 1890s, the 9,000 acres of pastureland on Montauk were a primary resource for East Hampton farmers, Mr. Hefner wrote.

The beginning of the Montauk pasture was delineated by a fence running from Napeague Bay, and a keeper who lived at the First House, just east of the fence, was charged with the task of keeping a list of all cattle, horses, and sheep entering through his gate. A second major fence divided the peninsula from the next fenced-in area, and a keeper who lived at Second House was responsible for maintaining that fence. 

Houses for the shepherds to live in were built in the first years that Montauk land was used for pasture, Mr. Hefner writes, citing a reference in 1663 town records about men going to Montauk to build a “shelter for the keeper,” as well as references to house-building or repairs in Montauk in 1703, 1713, and 1739.

“A house built at Fort Pond in 1746 was the first at this location,” his report states. At an April 29th meeting, the trustees “agreed with Nathaniel Talmage to keep the sheep this side of the fort pond until the 15 day of October and for his service he is for to live in the house built for that purpose at the fort pond beach,” according to records cited by the historian.

While the keepers at First House and Third House kept track of whose livestock was using the grazing lands based on the animals’ earmarks, “the keeper at the Second House was in charge of sheep, and was required to ride through the sheep pasture two half days each week.”

The town trustees, on behalf of the proprietors of Montauk, began in 1797 replacing the three keepers’ houses with new buildings. Second House “had a form and floor plan typical of a medium-sized East Hampton farmhouse of the period,” Mr. Hefner writes. In 1837, a lean-to addition for a kitchen was added. 

From 1797 to 1879, eight keepers lived in Second House, with the familiar surnames of Hedges, Parsons, Miller, Fithian, Stratton, Lester, and Osborn, according to census records cited in the report.

The keepers’ dwellings also served as boarding houses for men hired to assist with herding the livestock, trustees inspecting the conditions at the pastureland, and so on. There were visitors also, who came from farther afield  — from New York, New Haven, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., among other locations, according to guest registers of the times.

Mr. Hefner writes that a children’s school opened at Second House in 1896, according to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and in 1898 both Second and Third House were quarters for “officers and newspaper men,” according to that same newspaper, when soldiers returning from Cuba and Puerto Rico were bivouacked at Camp Wikoff. Second House was used as a staging area for food and supply distribution.

The area still served as pastureland even after Arthur Benson bought Montauk from the proprietors for $151,000 in 1879. Soon after, he had additions built onto both Second House and Third House to provide accommodations for family and friends, and for the designers and builders of the Montauk Association houses. An addition on the east side of Second House, and a porch, are believed to have been built circa 1880. 

Following Benson’s death, his heirs sold a large tract to Austin Corbin of the Long Island Rail Road and Charles M. Pratt of Standard Oil. Other parts of the Benson land, including the lot containing Second House, were subdivided. David E. Kennedy acquired three lots listed on the 1905 subdivision map, including the Second House lot, and in 1909 he and his wife, Claire, with their two young children, moved into Second House for the summer.

In 1912 he made major changes, adding a new porch and dormer windows and expanding the house to the east after removing the earlier kitchen lean-to, giving the structure, said Mr. Hefner, the appearance of a typical early 20th-century summer cottage. The family continued to summer at the house into the 1960s. 

In June 1968, the Town of East Hampton bought Second House for $75,000, with half the money coming from the New York State Historical Trust, to be operated as a museum by the Montauk Historical Society. The society opened the museum the following June, and has maintained it ever since.

Despite the 1912 changes, Mr. Hefner wrote in his report, “significant interior spaces remain intact from pre-1912.” The kitchen retains its early cooking hearth and bake oven, and the parlor retains early wide-board wainscoting. 

To restore the vista from the property to Fort Pond, which provided fresh water for grazing livestock, Mr. Hefner has recommended removing a privet hedge. The 1912 additions should also be removed, he said, as “the period of significance ends with the end of the use of the Montauk pasture.” 

You will still be able to buy its signature drink, the B.B.C. (Banana Bailey’s Colada), at Cyril’s Fish House, the popular roadside bar and restaurant on Napeague, in the coming season, but you might want to arrive early: The owners of the property have agreed to limit the number of patrons on the grounds at any one time and to make numerous modifications to the building and grounds.

That the modifications, negotiated between the town and the property owners, are coming to the town planning board for site plan review is significant given that they have been locked in a legal battle since 2013 and that a criminal trial is looming in Town Justice Court.

The negotiated agreement is described in a memo to the planning board, which was scheduled to discuss it last night, following an executive session with town attorneys. The board, which has the final say, is likely to need some convincing, however, since members quickly rejected a revised site plan earlier this year.

Eric Schantz, a senior Planning Department official, prepared the memo for the planning board. According to Mr. Schantz, the bar that faces Montauk Highway and “other structures,” such as a brick patio between the restaurant and the roadway, will be gone. A bar on the west side of the building will become a 10-foot-long counter. In addition, “the canopy, portions of the deck, and stone seating area on the western side of the building will be removed.”

A “30-by-30 foot long outdoor area for patrons, cordoned off from the parking lot through a combination of fencing and vegetative screening” will replace the bar and patio.

There will be only 62 seats, 36 outdoors and 26 indoors, a number that appeared to be in place in 1984 and complies with a ruling by State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Farneti in 2014 in a lawsuit brought by the town against Cyril’s.

The number of people at the property at one time is to be limited to 150, including employees. There will be a minimum of 21 parking spaces on the half-acre lot.

“The Planning Department considers these changes a substantial improvement to the site’s impacts,” Mr. Schantz wrote. “A significant improvement to public safety is anticipated, primarily through the removal of the front bar and the restricting of patrons to an area at the interior of the site and off of Montauk Highway.”

Also to be removed are several structures behind the restaurant, now used for storage. Storage will be limited to two 8-by-20 foot structures, plus a garbage compactor and a grease bin. According to Mr. Schantz, the changes were done in consultation with the town attorney’s office.

The property is zoned for residential use but  commercial use is allowed because its existence predates the town code. However, the town has insisted that Cyril’s has far exceeded the scope of what was in place in 1984, when the applicable sections of the code were written.

Ruling in 2014 on the town’s lawsuit against Cyril’s in State Supreme Court, Justice Farneti listed many of the structures whose removal is called for in the agreement as having been put up after 1984. He also found that if the matter were to go to civil trial, “the likelihood of success favors the town.” The suit was adjourned to allow the owners to go through site plan review, and to seek whatever variances would be needed to legalize the site.

In other legal action brought by the town, Debra Dioguardi Lakind, Michael Dioguardi, and Robert Dioguardi, who own the property, are scheduled to go on trial in Town Justice Court on Tuesday on 248 criminal counts related to the zoning code. Michael Sendlenski, the town attorney, said on Tuesday that the town was not willing to adjourn the case. Conrad Jordan, the attorney for the Dioguardis, did not return several calls to his office this week. 

Cyril Fitzsimons, who operates the bar and restaurant, is not named in the criminal complaint. The charges are all violations of the zoning code, such as lack of building permits and certificates of occupancy. Many of the charges are misdemeanors, punishable by up to six months in jail as well as a $1,000 fine. According to the State Liquor Authority, even one conviction, on a lack of a certificate of occupancy, could lead to the loss of his right to sell alcohol.

The question may be when rather than if a 7-Eleven chain store will open in the long moribund Italian restaurant off the Montauk Highway in Amagansett. The answer may hinge on whether the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals reverses a 2014 decision by Tom Preiato, the town’s former chief building inspector, that denied a building permit for work there. An appeal by the property owners, Richard and Yvonne Principi, was heard Tuesday night at Town Hall, in a continuation of a hearing that began in July. The property is east of the Amagansett I.G.A. 

The Principis, who were in attendance Tuesday, signed a lease for a 7-Eleven there last year, and the stakes are high: The 7-Eleven that opened in 2010 in Montauk was reportedly the nation’s busiest in a chain of almost 8,000 stores in 2014.

Mr. Preiato had given the Principis a building permit on Jan. 30, 2014. It would have allowed conversion of the interior of the empty building for the popular convenience store. The permit sparked opposition from neighbors, however, and was a factor in the town’s adopting a law governing so-called formula stores later that year. Two weeks after issuing the permit, Mr. Preiato informed the owners that he had made a mistake. “It is my determination that site plan review by the Town of East Hampton Planning Bzoard is required before a building permit may issue,” he wrote on Feb. 14, 2014. 

The July hearing on the Principis’ appeal had been adjourned to allow time for research. Tuesday night’s session was similar, in that it seemed to raise more questions than answers.

The history of the property is murky. Subdivisions were proposed for the land in the 1980s and ’90s, but apparently never fully approved, although paving and clearing was done. Several retail stores had been proposed for the building in the past and a car wash was briefly floated by the Planning Department.

During a presentation on behalf of the Principis, Gregory R. Alvarez of the Amato Law Group offered to clear up the “noncompliant nature” of the property. “Certainly, there are questions regarding the subdivisions that were created,” Mr. Alvarez said. “We are proposing to concede that prior subdivisions are invalid, and turn this back into a single lot.” 

However, the board was told by Elizabeth Baldwin, its attorney, that they could, and should, refuse his offer. She warned the board that it should limit itself to determining whether Mr. Preiato had erred when he revoked the building permit. “This isn’t ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ ” John Whelan, chairman, said later.

Mr. Alvarez covered much ground during his presentation, including whether the town’s formula store law even applied to the proposal. He argued that under the town code there was nothing legal that would have caused Mr. Preiato’s reversal. “Do you agree that the subdivision was not completed?” Mr. Whelan asked. “It’s ambiguous,” Mr. Alvarez responded. Mr. Whelan then pressed the point, saying ambiguity could justify the need for a proper site plan, which would be in the town planning board’s domain.

The formula store law calls for special permits to be issued by the planning board. Mr. Alvarez pointed out that the law was passed by the town board well after the initial application for a building permit. 

“There was no tenant in place in January 2014,” David Lys, a member of the board, said. “Any tenant that goes in there would have to be up to the standards of the law.” Mr. Lys also asked how parking calculations had been made. “I would like to know what the survey was when the building permit was issued,” he said.

As for the subdivisions at the site, Cate Rogers said they never received planning board approval. “A building permit would be revoked because it was not a legally created lot,” she said. But Mr. Alvarez said site plan approval was not needed for interior work on an existing structure.

“Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to go back to planning to get this worked out?” Mr. Whelan asked. “There are so many balls in the air. You need a proper site plan.”

Ms. Baldwin encouraged the board to delve into the planning board files as well as files at the Planning and Building Departments. The board agreed to keep the record open until May 10, to allow copies of pertinent documents to be placed in the record, and added another two weeks for the Principis to respond to the new information.

The developers of a 13.3-acre property across Montauk Highway from Bridgehampton Commons may have followed a Southampton Town request to scale back  plans for the planned development district, but what they came up with didn’t satisfy the Bridgehampton Citizens Advisory Committee, which on Monday night urged the Southampton Town Board to again reject the plan. 

In a 21-to-3 vote, the committee approved a resolution asking the town to “withdraw entirely from the plan it initiated to rezone” the land from highway business to a mixed-use planned development district. 

Carol Konner, the principal in Konner Development, and her son, Greg, own two-thirds of the acreage, while Eric Friedlander, who developed North Haven Point, owns the rest. After being told the project, being called Bridgehampton Gateway, was too big, she presented a pared-down proposal designed by Alexander Gorlin, a well-known Manhattan designer. It calls for 85,000 square feet of commercial space, reduced from the 90,000 square feet proposed in February at the last of several hearings. An Equinox gym is planned for 27,000 square feet of that space. Four market rate condominiums at 5,000 square feet are proposed, a 50-percent reduction. As for community benefit, a necessary component of P.D.D.s, 20 affordable housing units are planned on the second story above the commercial space, totaling 15,000 square feet. There would be 15 one-bedroom units and five two-bedroom apartments. Thirty units were initially proposed for 25,000 square feet of second-story space.

A state-of-the-art sewage system that Mrs. Konner said would cost $2.4 million will be installed. She also promised dedicated affordable retail spaces for local operations, such as shoe repair or seamstress shops, and the donation of open space on the highway, as well as trails leading to Kellis Pond, which is just to the west. 

The citizens committee was not swayed. Its resolution was drafted by a subcommittee that is closely following the proposal. “Rather than benefiting the community, such density will have a negative impact on our hamlet,” the resolution read. There are unanswered questions, the committee said, about whether there would be adequate parking for the types of businesses that might rent space and whether the town could control “other negative impacts of such developments.” Namely, members are upset about the recent removal of privacy berms from the front of Bridgehampton Commons. 

A hearing will be held on Bridgehampton Gateway at Southampton Town Hall on May 3 at 6 p.m. The decision for the town board is whether to move forward in considering the planned development district. 

Mrs. Konner, who was in the citizens committee’s audience on Monday but was not called on to speak until after the vote, said she respected everyone on the committee, but, “I’d like that same respect coming back this way.” She took umbrage that the committee was discussing details and making misstatements about aspects of the plan that she said only professionals could properly answer or correct. “And they will be answered next Tuesday night.”

Mrs. Konner reminded committee members that the town had initiated the process when she first presented a plan for an Equinox gym at the site, which would have been legal on one of the nine separate, contiguous lots that comprise the 13.3 acres. 

“You don’t want it? O.K. We’ll just go highway business and that’ll be that. Maybe you should postpone your vote until we have a chance to air our side,” she said, and promised to “meet you all at Candy Kitchen, and I’ll hold my head high.”

The vote on Monday was in stark contrast to the support the committee initially gave the town in exploring a planned development district there last year. Then-Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst had brought up a P.D.D. as a possible alternative when the committee was railing against the possibility of a CVS pharmacy opening at the corner of Montauk Highway and Lumber Lane. (The pharmacy has since withdrawn from the location, though a building is nearing completion there). 

Peter Wilson, an architect who is on the subcommittee, said the committee had been initially attracted to a P.D.D. at Gateway because of the CVS  and the idea that the Konners could build 90,000 square feet of commercial space as of right under highway business zoning. Bridgehampton could “wind up with Jiffy Lubes,” looking like County Road 39 in Southampton, he said. “We were sold a bill of goods right from the beginning. We were given eye wash.”  

“It was that sense of betrayal that led to a re-examination of what was being agreed to,” Pamela Harwood, the committee chairwoman, said.

John Daly, one of the members who did not vote in favor of the committee’s resolution, disagreed. “If you step back and take a good hard look at this, this ‘opposition’ was primarily directed by the adjoining landowners,” he said, referring to Bridgehampton Action Now, a group created by homeowners around Kellis Pond. Others on the committee shouted, “No,” and said the Kellis Pond group were not adjoining landowners.

“What changed our minds was we had time to analyze those plans they were hitting us with. The plan doesn’t work,” Mr. Wilson said. Ms. Harwood acknowledged that some committee members were more focused on the affordable housing. “There are still people who say they will support it because of affordable housing. I don’t think we’re going to get everybody in this room to agree on that.” 

Tony Lambert, who grew up in Bridgehampton and works at the Post Office there, was one of those voices. He said people are moving to southern states because they can’t afford to live here, and he noted the lack of affordable housing. “If East Hampton can do it, why can’t we?  We don’t need to have all these empty houses where no one is in there with the lights on all day long,” he said.

In an interview on Tuesday, Mrs. Konner said she was frustrated by the meeting. “It felt like a lynching,” she said, adding that she had met the town’s request to scale back as much as she could and would not decrease the density anymore.  The cost of the sewage treatment plant has already increased nearly $1 million, she said. “There’s nothing more I can say yes to.”

Update, 8:20 p.m.: Stop and Shop in East Hampton Village reopened Wednesday evening after a fire broke out in a mechanical room hours earlier. 

East Hampton Fire Department Chief Richard Osterberg Jr. said a sprinkler system helped to contain the fire, which appeared to have been caused by debris, such as cardboard, that had been placed too close to a generator.

Employees at the grocery store at 67 Newtown Lane called 911 when they saw smoke, which had spread to the main part of the store, the chief said. They got customers out of the building, he said. Simultaneously, police dispatchers received a call from the alarm company about an automatic fire alarm that had been activated. Smoke was coming out of the back of the store, though it was hard to see because it is up against trees in Herrick Park, he added.

Gerry Turza, the second assistant chief, was the first chief to arrive, and he began "an aggressive interior attack" of the fire, Chief Osterberg said. Within 15 minutes, firefighters used 350 feet of hose to douse the flames "before damage really spread," he said. Only some of the contents of the room, which also contains refrigerator compressors and circuit breakers, were damaged. The building itself was not compromised.

Chief Osterberg notified the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, which oversees grocery stores, because there was a risk of food contamination from the smoke that spread to the store. He said a representative was to visit the store from the Brooklyn office and would have to sign-off on the reopening.

A Stop and Shop representative could not immediately be reached, but an employee at the store Wednesday evening said it had reopened around 6:30 p.m.

Managing the fire scene was no easy task, as the store is located in the middle of the village business district, off the busy Reutershan parking lot, with many cars and people coming and going, the chief said. The East Hampton Village Police Department was a tremendous help, he said, in closing off the parking lot to additional cars and keeping the entrances open for fire trucks to get through. "P.D. was really phenomenal," he said. 

The Stop and Shop staff of about 20 was also helpful; they didn't panic, they evacuated the building, and then stayed together in the parking lot so that they could all be accounted for and there was no question whether firefighters needed to search for anyone. "They have a plan in place that they do run practice on," the chief said. 

Originally, 4:02 p.m.: The East Hampton Fire Department quickly brought a fire at Stop and Shop in the village under control Wednesday afternoon. 

The department was called to the grocery store at 67 Newtown Lane at about 3:45 p.m. There was reportedly heavy smoke at the back of the building, near the loading dock in the Reutershan parking lot. 

A fire captain who arrived first at the grocery store confirmed there was a fire in the compressor room on the second floor and that the sprinkler system had activated. Chiefs called for the Amagansett Fire Department's rapid intervention team, in case a firefighter had to be rescued from inside the building. 

Less than 15 minutes later, firefighters reported the fire had been knocked down. Firefighters were then now on venting smoke. A fire marshal is investigating the cause.

Chiefs called for PSEG-Long Island to shut the power off and a representative from the Suffolk Health Department to respond because smoke did make it into the store. Fire dispatchers discovered it is actually the State Department of Agriculture and Markets that oversees grocery stores.  

Check back for more information as it becomes available.