The Montauk Coast Guard Station, a big four-square three-story clapboard building, sits on the shore...
Author: Dan Rattiner
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Actor Ethan Hawke was seen on the Hamptons Subway going eastbound toward ...
I think a crucial moment in American history occurred years ago when the government, for the first t...
If you drive up North Sea Road to where it ends amidst the sand dunes of Sebonac, you might notice a...
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Gwyneth Paltrow was seen last Thursday boarding a train at the subway’s...
Remember the Dan’s Papers PotatoHampton 10K Minithon? A lot of people do. It was held for 34 years...
The Montauk Manor, high on Fort Hill overlooking the downtown of Montauk, was built in 1927 ...
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Commissioner Bill Aspinall and his wife Agnes made their annual tour of a...
The 1975 movie Jaws, which premiered at the East Hampton Cinema, was a pivotal moment in the history...
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President Donald Trump or someone who looks just like him was seen aboard...
Stuff happens here in the Hamptons. When it’s controversial, those in charge have to decide what t...
This year is the 100th anniversary of the largest real estate purchase on the East End by a ...
In the 1990s, two women who lived alone in a mansion on Union Street in Sag Harbor began mak...
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Actor Alec Baldwin, his wife Hilaria, their seven children and all their ...
My son David, now in his early 40s, is studying law. He’s begun his first year. Yesterday he calle...
In the 1840s, two mansions in the Greek Revival style were built across from one another in the cent...
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Award winning author Walter Isaacson was seen on the subway heading from ...
The first gunfight in which shots were fired in the Hamptons came during the American Revolution tha...
In prior Backstory columns, I’ve written about various real estate transactions I’ve been involv...
For nearly 100 years, many members of the New York City Social Set lived in a special oceanfront con...