Morning was spent here in East Hampton looking after our two-year-old twin grandkids, whose parents ...
Author: Dan Rattiner
This Sunday, June 21, the film Jaws will be shown at nearly 500 movie theaters around the country, i...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of then Governor Hugh Carey’s decision to abandon plans to bu...
Week of June 5–11, 2015
Riders this past week: 24,412
Rider miles this past week: 200,810
DOW...
They came from two different worlds for the Class Day graduation ceremony at Columbia University. On...
On June 8, which is next Monday, a judge in Islip will decide if the new laws passed for the East Ha...
Here’s something I bet you never thought to do. Go down to East Hampton Airport and watch the plan...
In 2000, a wealthy New Yorker named Marc Goldman created a corporation to buy a 44-acre parcel of op...
Week of May 29–June 4, 2015
Riders this past week: 27,l98
Rider miles this past week: 241,767
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About a week ago, there was an alarming story in the media about the sea level rise in the northeast...
At the beginning of March, I formulated a plan for how we might have the longest and most wonderful ...
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When things get slow in the wintertime at Dan’s Papers, I head off, as most lo...
Week of May 22–28, 2015
Riders this past week: 23,812
Rider miles this past week: 181,422
DOW...
I do not pretend to understand the problem Greece is having with the European Union. Who decides Gre...
SHARK COMING THIS WAY
A few years ago, a shark-tagging outfit got a 2-ton killer shark to slide up ...
I saw the movie Selma the other day coming out from New York City on the Hampton Jitney Ambassador. ...
If you drive along Route 25 to where you enter Southold, you will see a sign reading “Welcome to t...
Week of May 15–21, 2015
Riders this past week: 21,433
Rider miles this past week: 174,422
DO...
Every day the Earth spins a little slower than the day before, which means each day is getting longe...
I have been asked, as the referee in the Dan’s Papers 2015 Literary Prize for Nonfiction, to selec...