For Nick Epstein

Wed, 04/29/2026 - 06:40

April 29, 2026

A funeral for Nick Epstein of East Hampton will be held on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. Burial will follow at Shaarey Pardes Accabonac Grove Cemetery on Old Stone Highway in Springs.

Mr. Epstein, who was 50, died on Sunday. He is survived by his wife, Danielle Epstein, his children, Max and Pai Bellenoue, his parents, Stuart and Lynn Epstein, and two sisters, Heidi Boncher, and her husband, Joel White, and Kirstin Boncher, and her husband, David Bank.

A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

Villages

The State of the Bays Is Mostly Bad

Sensational mentions of a flesh-eating bacterium aside, the State of the Bays symposium at the Stony Brook Southampton campus offered dire news regarding degraded waterways and climate change.

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Call ‘Flesh Eating’ Alarmist

The Vibrio vulnificus “flesh eating” bacterium “is not unusual in warm saltwater or brackish environments and does not necessarily indicate pollution or a widespread public health emergency,” the Southampton Town Trustees said in an advisory issued following a social media post that went viral.

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Item of the Week: All Aboard the Fishermen’s Special

The L.I.R.R.’s Fishermen’s Special to Montauk and Hampton Bays was once a convenient and popular rail service for urban anglers. The photo here is from 1946.

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