Patricia Peterson, a pioneering fashion editor for The New York Times who became a vice president at the department store Henri Bendel, died at home in Manhattan on June 15. She was 99 and lived part time in Amagansett.
Edward L. Schiff, an eminent authority on real estate law, died of heart failure on July 4 in New York City. A summer resident of Montauk for more than 40 years, he was 96.
A caller reported three youths lying “in the middle of Suffolk Street,” next to a black S.U.V., at around 3 in the morning on July 14 in Sag Harbor. The three told police they were waiting for a friend and were out on the street because their vehicle had no air-conditioning.
Toyotas were on a tear this week, with four accidents on local roads resulting in injuries.
