On a winter drive with my husband one Sunday afternoon, we started to list all the people we’ve known from the neighborhood who are no longer here — their absence struck a powerful note.

A $19 million sale in East Hampton Village? Another on North Haven for $6 mil? Welcome to the Hamptons.

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, the icemen were busy here. Twenty-five years ago, the district’s congressman and a U.S. senator expressed disgust at Brookhaven National Lab contamination.

From the question of the Toilsome brewery to a 70-foot monopole in Springs.