My son David, now in his early 40s, is studying law. He’s begun his first year. Yesterday he calle...
Author: Dan Rattiner
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...
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Christie Brinkley, promoting her new memoir Uptown Girl, was reportedly s...
Around 2000, the Town of East Hampton bought property on Abraham’s Path in East Ha...
I have a special friend online. I think most writers have one. At a party in Quogue over Labor Day w...
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Boarding the westbound subway at the Georgica station on Sunday Aug. 31 w...
If you’ve lived on the East End long enough, you will see that many buildings used for one thing g...
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Filmmaker Lena Dunham was seen on the subway going from Bridgehampton to ...
Gigi’s is a new restaurant that opened this summer in the Hamptons. It has taken a lease of the di...
In 1851, Herman Melville wrote the book Moby-Dick. It was about a giant 90-foot-long white whale tha...
The White Farm in Sagaponack, about 57 acres, was founded in the 17th century by Ebenezer White. Rem...
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Straphangers were treated to the sight of new Hamptons resident Sylvester...
Dear Dan: A friend invited me to a bonfire at the beach tonight. It starts at 9 p.m. at a place they...
The longest running annual fundraising event in the Hamptons – actually a softball game founded in...
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Actress, songwriter and beautiful person Taylor Swift was seen on the sub...
On behalf of the Hamptons, East, Bridge, South and the other communities, I would like to officially...