Real estate is king here. And here are the latest reported moves.

After several years of lobbying the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for money to improve Long Island Rail Road infrastructure and expand commuter train service on the South Fork, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced Wednesday that $260 million has been added to the M.T.A.'s capital plan to do just that.

A program called Poet Meets Novelist will bring Grace Schulman, author of "Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2022," and Elizabeth Birkelund, whose novel "A Northern Light in Provence" was published in May, to the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs on Saturday at 4 p.m.

August Gladstone is a screenwriter, poet, musician, songwriter, comedic actor, and clown, with a TV pilot and a book of poetry among his many undertakings.

You want New York in the ’70s? Guy Trebay’s “Do Something” is a small masterpiece celebrating its art, lit, and grit, its easy rents and hard times.

Sandra Vorpahl says her cooking style is "comfort food," and she has friends, family, and community members who devour it with gusto.

Taylor Mac, the performance artist and drag icon, will make his first Hamptons appearance at Guild Hall.

LTV Studios will host a panel on Latin American art, a show of cabaret, jazz, and blues standards, and a classical music quartet.

The Sag Harbor American Music Festival will bring four days of live music to the village, most of it free of charge.

The Hamptons Film Festival has added three new narrative features to its previously announced slate of films.

A call for plays from Bay Street, a poetry read-in at The Church, tea ceremony workshops at LongHouse, and "The Batwoman" film at the Parrish.

Four realists at Grenning, copyright presentation at LTV, watercolors at Ashawagh, sundial workshop at Leiber, and a group show at Depot.

Rosh Hashana meals from L&W, oyster tastings at Women's Art Center, harvest party at Wolffer Estate, and specials at Bell and Anchor.

LeTip, a networking group made up of professionals from different industries that meets weekly in Bridgehampton, is venturing a bit farther west, to Union Burger Bar in Southampton Village, for its next event.

Kmart, a longtime anchor tenant in the Bridgehampton Commons, has hired the liquidator Eldon W. Gottschalk & Associates to handle the sale of the store contents in advance of the store's permanent closure on Oct. 20.

Kmart, a longtime anchor tenant in the Bridgehampton Commons, has hired the liquidator Eldon W. Gottschalk & Associates to handle the sale of the store contents in advance of the store's permanent closure on Oct. 20.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North fork will host a free informational forum at LTV Studios on Tuesday at 7 p.m. to "explore the role of a trustworthy news media in a democracy and how to identify and combat" online misinformation and disinformation.

The Hamptons Film Festival has added three new narrative features to its previously announced slate of films.

A summer fund-raising campaign at Citarella markets on the South Fork brought in $126,680 for the East End Fund for Children, which supports seven child-centered nonprofits here. 

The Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter Veterans Memorial Bridge is the latest iconic Sag Harbor structure to become a Cat's Meow Village replica.