Business

BookHampton Goes North

    Who says literature is dead? Certainly not the owners of BookHampton, who are expanding the storybook kingdom over to Mattituck. A new Book­Hampton store will open there this weekend, joining sister stores in East Hampton, Southampton, and Sag Harbor.

    The latest incarnation of what has been called by Newsweek “one of the country’s great indie bookstores” has moved into the Gildersleeve Octagonal Building on the corner of Main Street and Love Lane. Opening celebrations will take place on Saturday and Easter Sunday.

AMAGANSETT

D. Lenzer to T. and K. Wright, 15 Green Tree Court, 2.06 acres (vacant), Feb. 14, $1,200,000.

St. Michael’s Evangelical Church to St. Michael’s Windmill, Montauk Highway, Dec. 21, $473,100.

EAST HAMPTON

R.C.P. Holding Corp. to H.C.D.C. Holdings L.L.C., 17 Ocean Boulevard, .55 acre, Jan. 25, $475,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

P. Gasrel Trust to E. Kladitis, 69 Pantigo Road, .53 acre, Feb. 13, $600,000.

S. Mandell and L. Schacht to R. Silverstein, 325 Georgica Road, 1.07 acres, Feb. 15, $4,100,000.

    Like a brightly colored Easter egg, Vintage Pink, a new store in Montauk, is not hard to find. Tucked away on South Edison Street on the edge of the post office parking lot, it is chock-full of interesting items, bubbling Buddha fountains, and bamboo stalks in vases.

AMAGANSETT

M. Maytin to J. Gerrard, 640 Old Stone Highway, 2.05 acres, Feb. 1, $1,995,000.

EAST HAMPTON

Florida CIS EH L.L.C. to Talmage Lane Ventures, 46 Talmage Lane, .83 acre (vacant), Feb. 9, $1,900,000.

S. and T. Georgopoulos to Richmond Ventures Four, 3 Old Hollow Lane, 1.98 acres, Feb. 6, $1,575,000.

MONTAUK

G. and R. Developmental Co. to B. Savage, 155 West Lake Drive,

.44 acre, Feb. 16, $945,000.

NOYAC

A. and M. Caraballo to A. Aliotta, 36 Partridge Drive, .58 acre, Feb. 17, $511,000.

   “It’s like coming home,” said John Nesta, of Mr. John’s Pancake House in Montauk. “It’s a legend.”

    “These ladies have been here for years,” added his wife, Elizabeth, looking at Cristina Albranda and smiling. It is no exaggeration. Ms. Albranda has waited on customers at the friendly, no-frills eatery for 31 years.

AMAGANSETT

E. Danzig to J. Tabone, 9 Holly Way, .56 acre, Feb. 3, $1,500,000.

EAST HAMPTON

B. King Revocable Trust to K. Trainor, 12 Sunset Lane, .24 acre, Feb. 1, $750,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

C.J. Moorhead Trust to A. Dweck and R. Levine, 19 Mill Hill Lane, Feb. 7, $2,100,000.

NORTH HAVEN

K. Langberg to W., S., and J. Holtz, 31 On the Bluff, 1.84 acres, Jan. 24, $3,180,000.

NORTHWEST

H. and M. Goldberg to B. Phillips, 58 Alewife Brook Road, 1.3 acres, Feb. 1, $795,000.

Wine and Networking

    On Friday, March 23, the Parrish Art Museum’s Business Council will host Two Forks and a Cork, now in its eighth year. The wine-tasting event will be held in the Southampton museum’s concert hall from 6 to 8 p.m. East End wines, artisan foods, and a silent auction will be the highlights, along with a chance to network with local professionals.

   Plum TV, the lifestyle television network that broadcasts in eight resort areas, including the East End, has been purchased by LXTV, another lifestyle broadcaster, following a bankruptcy auction held on March 1.

   LXTV’s co-founders, Joseph Varet and Morgan Hertzan, will serve as co-presidents of Plum, with offices in Los Angeles and New York City.

AMAGANSETT

A. Trages by administrators to 23 Windmill Lane L.L.C., 117 Main Street, .33 acre, Jan. 27, $850,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

187 Main St. L.L.C. to Clareg Properties, 187 Main Street, .93 acre, Jan. 31, $2,187,500.

MONTAUK

D. and E. Brassil to K. and C. Ryder, 24 McKinley Road, .22 acre (vacant), Jan. 24, $850,000.

NORTHWEST

F. Lawrence by executor to Buenos Dias L.L.C., 9 Bearing East Road, 1 acre, Jan. 21, $525,000.

AMAGANSETT

Scalia and Jordan-Scalia to Clark-Powell Trust, 63 Wyandanch Lane, .14 acre, Jan. 23, $1,800,000.

EAST HAMPTON

S. Lichtenstein to 11 H.R.L., L.L.C., 11 Hedge Row Lane, .75 acre, Jan. 9, $1,100,000.

New Sunshine Realty to J. Tuohy and J. Burke, 17 Stokes Court, Jan. 12, $850,000.

B. Haag to 114 W. 70th Trust, 16 Ocean Parkway, .52 acre, Jan. 13, $1,100,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

G. Jacobs and A. Veronis to A. Wetenhall, 65 Toilsome Lane, .48 acre, Jan. 6, $1,425,000.

MONTAUK

AMAGANSETT

J. Breslin by executor to M. and B. Rudin, 47 Osprey Road, .17 acre, Jan. 18, $980,000.

Fitzgerald and Bickley to B. Roaman, 70 Oak Lane, .74 acre, Jan. 13, $950,000.

MONTAUK

Montauk J.M.J. Associates to 78 Ventures Ltd., 474 West Lake Drive, .62 acre, Jan. 4, $4,300,000.

C. Niessen and E. Saucier to M. Pettingill, 39 Caswell Road, .17 acre (vacant), Dec. 16, $240,000.

C. Niessen and E. Saucier to M. Pettingill, 41 Caswell Road, .17 acre, Dec. 16, $500,000.

NORTHWEST

AMAGANSETT

R. and H. Friedlander to K. Hart and K. Tucker, 113 Meeting House Lane, .79 acre, Dec. 28, $2,800,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

M. Cremers by executor to Moo Moo L.L.C., 81 Jericho Road, .93 acre, Dec. 6, $2,525,000.

MONTAUK

Shady Acres Holding to N. Beard, 234 Old Montauk Highway, 1.4 acres, Dec. 23, $1,000,000.

C. Tiegs to P. and N. Beard, 232 and 236 Old Montauk Highway, 3.5 acres, Dec. 23, $3,000,000.

C. Kennebeck to E. Ferguson and J. Sample, 5 Hoover Court, .46 acre, Dec. 6, $1,150,000.

   Mark and Shannon Zucchero have added another store to their Flying Point Surf Shop holdings. The newest addition has opened on Main Street in Sag Harbor in the former Bikehampton space. Named the Flying Point Surf Shop Boutique, it offers women’s and children’s summer essentials as well as boots, and will eventually sell paddle boards. It is a few doors down from Flying Point in the Harbor, which sells primarily men’s clothing, as well as skateboards, surfboards, and accessories, and is attached to their sunglass store.

    Suffolk Bancorp, a one-bank holding company that operates Suffolk County National Bank, has released results for its recent fourth quarter, with comparisons to the fourth quarter of 2010.

    Key points include a decrease in earnings per share of 62.5 percent, to 12 cents, from the comparable period, and net income at $1,156,000, down 62.3 percent from $3,069,000 during the same period in the previous year.

    The net loss per share for the full year was down 101.2 percent, from the net income of $6,256,000 in 2010.

   Necessity is the mother of invention, and sometimes the mothers are the inventors. That’s what happened with the new Whoopsiee — a half-hat, half-helmet of soft, reversible fabric engineered for adventurous toddlers by two South Fork moms.

AMAGANSETT

J. and D. York to J. Dillon, 17 Grove Street, Dec. 23, $620,550.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

C. Finocchio to C. Platto and L. Mandell, 1888 Scuttlehole Road, 1.02 acres, Dec. 16, $1,850,000.

EAST HAMPTON

C. Calhoun by executors to New Sunshine Custom Builders, part of 119 Middle Highway (vacant), Dec. 19, $175,000.

J. and M. Luppi III to 154 Oakview Highway, 154 Oak View Highway, 4.1 acres (vacant), Dec. 3, $730,000.

G. Cooper to E. Waserstein, 97 Three Mile Harbor Road, 1.1 acres, Dec. 19, $937,500.

Most Excellent Inn

    The votes are in, and Baker House 1650 on Main Street in East Hampton has been named the “most excellent inn” in the United States and Canada by Condé Nast Johansens international luxury travel guides. It is the third time that Baker House 1650 has been so named.

    The awards, in 28 categories, are given to luxury properties throughout the Americas, the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Caribbean and come from readers of the guides, hotel guests, and the Condé Nast Johansens team of inspectors.

Plum TV Auction

AMAGANSETT

Havey, Jones, and Wegehoft to 18 Shore Drive West, 18 Shore ­Drive West, .17 acre, Dec. 15, $700,000.

EAST HAMPTON

L. Harmon to J. and H. Forst, 9 Jason’s Lane, 1 acre (vacant), Dec. 9, $375,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

R. Borg East Hampton Trust to A. Stead and K. Dolsingh, 8 Toilsome Lane, 7.9 acres, Dec. 9, $620,000.

Hitherland Development to M. and K. Patel, 2 Marina Lane, .84 acre, Dec. 9, $6,000,000.

MONTAUK

S. and S. Rankin to R. and J. Rozycki, 74 Tern Drive, .17 acre, Dec. 12, $589,000.

   Is the glass half empty or half full? Reports presented from Suffolk Research Service and one of the East End’s real estate firms offer a nebulous view of whether the market is on the rise or still bouncing along the bottom.

    Although there was some improvement from the third quarter of 2011 to the final quarter, there was little to no improvement over all over the fourth quarter of 2010, according to George R. Simpson, the president of Suffolk Research Service.

Kathleen Beckmann started the new year by closing her real estate business, Kathleen Beckmann Real Estate, at her house on Essex Street at the east end of downtown Montauk and joining the office of Town and Country Real Estate on Main Street.

    When Judi Desiderio, who owns Town and Country, opened the Montauk location a little over two years ago, she said Monday that the first person she called to join her team was Ms. Beckmann. “I wasn’t ready,” Ms. Beckman said.

G­rowing up in Farmingdale with her parents and two brothers, Nora Kleps had the usual assortment of household pets — cats, dogs, parakeets, turtles — “anything you could buy at Woolworth’s,” she said. She also liked riding horses, but despite being drawn to animals she followed another path before eventually returning to school to become a veterinarian. It was only after becoming fluent in French, Italian, and Farsi that she became fluent in animal medicine.

   Plum TV, the upscale cable channel that serves up light entertainment geared toward tourist and resort markets, announced on Jan. 3 that the company had filed for Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court for the Southern District of New York.

    The beleaguered company, which is based in Miami but operates a station on the South Fork and in seven other high-end markets in the United States, laid off 50 of its 85 employees across the country in September, hoping to avoid accumulating further debt while preserving the brand.

A brief discussion of data on East Hampton Town’s zoning districts and the space allotted for business here at the last town board meeting of 2011 appears destined for a reprise in the new year.

    A glance at the deed transfers that occurred in the real estate market in East Hampton during the end of October through mid-November tells an interesting story indeed.

Is there anyone who hasn’t fantasized at some point about leaving behind their old stuff, selling their house, and stepping into someone else’s life?

Collecting for Charities

    For the past decade, Kate Carpluk of Town and Country Real Estate has been collecting donations of coats, hats, gloves, blankets, food, and toys to give to three local charities: Maureen’s Haven, the Bread and More soup kitchen, and Little Flower Children’s Services.

    This year all eight Town and Country offices will open their doors to anyone who may wish to donate. Ms. Carpluk can be reached at 838-7608 for pickup.

Contractor of the Year

AMAGANSETT

M. Recanati Trust to M. Forman, 16 Atlantic Avenue, .8 acre (vacant), Oct. 21, $2,400,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

D. Boylan to R. and H. Tartaglione Jr., 6 Fair Hills Lane, 1 acre (vacant), Sept. 14, $900,000.

EAST HAMPTON

E. Roye to Gardenia Partners, 156 Buckskill Road, 1.88 acres, Oct. 24, $725,000.

A. and M. Bernstein and R. Ash to J. Holley, 14 Saddle Lane, 1.3 acres, May 27, $577,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

Snow globes line the shelf behind the sofa in Chucky Bologna’s small yet orderly house in East Hampton as she talks about the new business, Declutterbug.

EAST HAMPTON

J. Santiago to T. and F. Samuels, 75 Crystal Drive and lot 2, .32 acre, Oct. 21, $415,000.

MONTAUK

D. Weit by executor to A. and A. Gabrielli, 589 Montauk Highway, Oct. 14, $700,000.

NAPEAGUE

C. Celle to E. Margolis and Patrusky, 24J Private Road, .49 acre, Oct. 25, $3,500,000.

NOYAC

D. Dispigna to M. and A. Arrieta, 20 Emerson Place, 1.03 acres (vacant), Oct. 3, $375,000.

F. Angrisani to London Trust, 201 Harbor Watch Court, .99 acre, Oct. 6, $1,076,000.

    While people fret over pesticides and other nefarious additives in our food supply, who will be the watchdog for the four-legged crowd?

    Betsy Petroski Smith has stepped up to the plate — or the dog bowl — with a line of completely natural dog toys and biscuits under the name dogOdog, with all the ingredients, from packaging to product, 100 percent certified organic and made in the United States. Ms. Petroski puts the packages together herself in East Hampton.