If you want to do something interesting on a sunny Saturday afternoon in December, dress up as Santa...
Author: Dan Rattiner
This story was supposed to be titled “Won’t Somebody Please Rent This Building?” The building ...
Driving east down Manorville’s County Road 111 after a long drive out to Eastern Long Island, you ...
When I first started Dan’s Papers 60 years ago, here is how money was handled.
If you worked fo...
Week of November 23–29, 2018
Riders this past week: 15,312
Rider miles this past week: 68,411
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We are the Old School Folks, the people they call Luddites, those who still read newspapers and writ...
Around October 5, Steven Wright was strolling down Carroll Street in Sag Harbor when, looking throug...
The Seena International clothing company has done it again. And all those who care about Montauk are...
In early June of 1791, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, both of whom would later become President...
Week of November 16–22, 2018
Riders this past week: 17,411
Rider miles this past week: 83,412
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Earsplitting gasoline-powered leaf blowers get stolen in the Hamptons. The thefts appear in the poli...
On the morning of August 27, 1862, the keeper of the Montauk Point Lighthouse, William Gardiner, wal...
My wife and I watched the film Die Hard 2 on TV last night. This is the 1990 Bruce Willis movie wher...
I watched the New York City Marathon on television the other day. What a sight—more than 50,000 ch...
Week of November 9–15, 2018
Riders this past week: 17,411
Rider miles this past week: 83,412
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On the morning of Friday, July 1, 1960, I went out to my 10-year-old Chevrolet sedan to where 5,000 ...
The first English settlers to come to what is now the State of New York landed in a small boat at So...
The Sag Harbor harbormaster, Bob Bori, was out in the police boat in the bay last week, conducting r...
Late in the middle of the night of Sunday, November 4, I woke up to use the bathroom. I had been dre...
Week of November 3–9, 2018
Riders this past week: 16,822
Rider miles this past week: 74,899
D...