East Hampton Town has asked a New York State Supreme Court judge to hold the owner of Duryea’s, on Fort Pond Bay in Montauk, in contempt of the court’s May 2019 orders allowing a certificate of occupancy to remain in effect, order the removal of a new parking lot and deck that were constructed without proper permits, and allow the town to resume enforcement of its ordinances.
Experts disagree on whether Nicholas Grecco’s house at 117 Bay View would become a new feature of Napeague Bay without its wall of geocubes, essentially huge sandbags, strung and piled atop one another, protecting the house from wave attack.
After a positive public hearing last Thursday before the East Hampton Town Board, it appears another major community preservation fund purchase is close. The deal is a complex arrangement between the town, East Hampton Village, and the Peconic Land Trust, with the majority of the $55 million purchase price — $35 million — coming from the land trust.
When Julie Reyes Taubman and her husband, Bobby Taubman, purchased a five-acre parcel of land facing the Atlantic Ocean at the end of Two Mile Hollow Road in East Hampton in 2005, they knew only one thing about the house that they would build there: They wanted it to look nothing like the traditionally-styled gabled houses covered in shingles which for the last couple of decades had been popping up all over the Hamptons.
