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Dune Road Breakthroughs Continue to Be a Problem
Attending a fundraiser for the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreation Center at Topping Rose on Saturday night, I saw Southampton…
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Hamptons Subway Newsletter: Week of December 12–18, 2019
Week of December 12–18, 2019 Riders this past week: 41,523 Rider miles this past week: 102,412 DOWN IN THE TUBE…
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Billionaire Fights to Make Public Road Near His Springs Property Go Away
David Buda is a retired attorney living in The Springs with his wife, a professional artist. He has taken on…
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More Winners: Dan Rattiner’s Non-Traditional Best of the Best Categories
This past week, the winners of the 2019 Dan’s Best of the Best, as chosen by you, the readers, were…
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Hamptons Subway Newsletter: Week of December 4–10, 2019
Week of December 4–10, 2019 Riders this past week: 36,291 Rider miles this past week: 93,895 DOWN IN THE TUBE…
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Hamptons Subway Newsletter: Week of November 28–December 4, 2019
Week of November 28–December 4, 2019 Riders this past week: 31,141 Rider miles this past week: 89,832 DOWN IN THE…
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Moby Duck: Herman Melville’s Followup Book in 19th Century Sag Harbor
Call me Ishmael. I am the best harpooner in this scruffy town of Sag Harbor. I wear a red bandanna…
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Cellphone Weirdness: Messages, Notifications and Whooping Sounds
Do you get weird notifications on your cellphone? I do. Last week, I got a message reading, “RAIN ALERT. A…
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Voting Advice: Gruber Uses Cantwell’s Number in EH Election Robocalls
A few days before Election Day, voters in East Hampton received calls and heard the voice of one of the…
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Hamptons Subway Newsletter: Week of November 21–27, 2019
Week of November 21–27, 2019 Riders this past week: 21,833 Rider miles this past week: 56,912 DOWN IN THE TUBE…
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Mile-a-Minute Murphy: Cyclist Attempted to Keep Up with LIRR Locomotive
This is the story of Mile-a-Minute Murphy. It’s a remarkable tale. And it happened on Long Island. Around 1890, Charles…
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Sag Harbor School Computers Hacked by Unknown Computer Experts
Kids at Sag Harbor’s Pierson High School who have bad grades might have gotten a lot to cheer about last…
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Oops: North Sea Recycling Center Recovers Resident’s Important Papers
Ron Fisher, the owner of Fisher Signs & Shirts on County Road 39, had sold his house in Flanders and…
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Real Estate
My Hamptons: Perry Duryea
A lifelong resident of Montauk, Perry “Chip” Duryea has witnessed many changes over the years. He recently sold his family’s…
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The Hamptons Subway
Hamptons Subway Newsletter: Week of November 14–20, 2019
Week of November 14–20, 2019 Riders this past week: 19,822 Rider miles this past week: 53,902 DOWN IN THE TUBE…
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Major League Baseball’s Umpire Calls May Be Decided by Robots
It was inevitable that it would happen. Major League Baseball this summer had robot umpires call balls and strikes in…
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Self-Driving Cars: Has Anyone Thought This Through? I’m Not So Sure About It
I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to a time coming up pretty soon where we will have driverless…
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Conscience Point: Shinnecock Documentary Will Be Shown on PBS
A documentary film about the Shinnecock Indian Nation, five years in the making and first shown at the Hamptons International…
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The 2020 Election Could Have Foreign Hackers on Both Sides
New York State, for the first time, had early voting for those who could not be available on the most…
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The Hamptons Subway
Hamptons Subway Newsletter: Week of November 8–14, 2019
Week of November 8–14, 2019 Riders this past week: 14,812 Rider miles this past week: 53,902 DOWN IN THE TUBE…
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The Hamptonz: What’s in a Name? – Trademark Monkey Returns
The Trademark Monkey has struck in Hampton Bays. The subject this time is Salvatore Biundo, who owns what until recently…
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Too Crowded? If There’s Not Enough Hamptons, Let’s Create Another One
Let’s face it. The number of people who came out to visit the villages in the Hamptons this past summer…
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Ludicrous Speed: IBM Computer Breakthrough, Sycamore vs. Google
Google announced a few weeks ago a huge breakthrough in computing. Their scientists have created a computer that can solve…
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Hamptons Subway Newsletter: Week of November 1–7, 2019
Week of November 1–7, 2019 Riders this past week: 27,412 Rider miles this past week: 88,514 DOWN IN THE TUBE…
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Little Hamptons Stories: Empty Storefronts, Wainscott Chapel and More
Here, Dan offers a trio of little, Hamptons-related stories pulled from recent headlines. MURALS FOR MAIN STREET There are many…
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Who? Columbus, Italians and Indigenous Peoples Day
In 2016, the students at the Southampton High School petitioned the school board to change the name of Columbus Day…
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Riding the Hampton Jitney to See the Jets Get Crushed at MetLife Stadium
My son Adam and I took the Hampton Jitney excursion coach from Southampton to MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands to…
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Monster Watch: College Students Await the Creature at Long Pond
The five students from New Jersey’s Shelton College camping in the woods by Long Pond in Bridgehampton for the last…
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Hamptons Subway Newsletter: Week of October 25–31, 2019
Week of October 25–31, 2019 Riders this past week: 25,813 Rider miles this past week: 96,512 DOWN IN THE TUBE…
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Gardiners: The Family Fight to Control the Largest Waterfront Parcel in the Hamptons
One of the three major participants in the battle for ownership of the largest piece of undeveloped oceanfront real estate…
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