Item of the Week: The John Howard Payne Party, 1935
Ruth Sterling Benjamin (1882-1957), far right in this photo from The Star’s archive, with five local girls at Home, Sweet Home for a John Howard Payne birthday celebration.
Ruth Sterling Benjamin (1882-1957), far right in this photo from The Star’s archive, with five local girls at Home, Sweet Home for a John Howard Payne birthday celebration.
The day in 1973 when the giant hanger at the New York Ocean Science Laboratory, a Montauk landmark since it was built during World War II, burned to the ground, and more from the pages of The Star.
It took four parking tickets and a week of close monitoring by traffic control officers, but a car with Tennessee license plates, which had been left on Main Street in Sag Harbor between 4 and 6 a.m. for several days in violation of the village code, was moved over the weekend after police finally made contact with its owner.
A Bronx man was charged Sunday morning in East Hampton Village with four misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a weapon during a traffic stop on Pantigo Road at Methodist Lane.
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