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Dan Rattiner's Stories
Grey Gardens Legend Endures: Alleged Burglary and a Painting of Jackie
The long and extraordinary legend of the East Hampton mansion called Grey Gardens continues with a lawsuit filed last week.…
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Summer Camp Guide
How to Choose the Right Summer Camp
Summer is coming to the East End, and that means it’s time to start thinking about summer camps! But as…
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Shopping & Style
Q&A: Hair Stylist to the Stars Marc Zowine
We chat with celebrity hair colorist and hair stylist Marc Zowine, who shuttles between New York, the Hamptons and Palm…
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Artists & Galleries
Remembering Legendary Hamptons Artist Lester Johnson
Having spent summers growing up in my grandparents’ house in Springs, it was not until much later that I realized…
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Featured Stories
Everything Old Is New Again at John Jermain Library
“The building shimmers again.” Catherine Creedon, Director of the John Jermain Memorial Library (JJML), is talking about how the restoration…
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Anybody Else Amazed That Willie Nelson Will Be Playing At The Surf Lodge And The Cost To Go Is Nothing??
I’m SHOCKED AND CHAGRINNED! STUPIFIED AND MORTIFIED! HOW IN THE WORLD IS A WILLIE NELSON CONCERT FREE AT THE SURF…
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Dan Rattiner's Stories
Fort Tyler: Historic Fortress Bombed into Ruins
When you travel to most seaside resorts around the world, you often come upon old forts built right on the…
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Kindness: A Moment on Noyac Road
I wish that doing something nice for somebody else wasn’t so shocking a concept, but the truth is that doing…
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Dan Rattiner's Stories
Who’s Here: Jonathan Sobel, Entrepreneur
Jonathan Sobel was born and raised the son of a physician in Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey located…
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Outdoor Living Areas With Dodds & Eder
Summer means spending as much time as possible outdoors, and that includes the time you spend at your home. Creating…
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Dan Rattiner's Stories
It Takes a Village? Hampton Bays Hamlet, Like Others Before It, Ponders Incorporation
I was going to open this story with a sentence that would begin “The powers that be in Hamptons Bays…”…
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Dan Rattiner's Stories
Helicopter Heaven: Where You Can Land in the Hamptons by Helicopter Few Know About
I think the towns out here do a very good job of allowing different people with different activities to share…
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The Hamptons Subway: Week of June 6 – 12, 2013
Riders this past week: 14.812 Rider miles this past week: 107,840 DOWN IN THE TUBE Gail Sheehy, author of the…
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House & Home
Sleep Blissfully in Organic Bedding
“Are you sure you want to quit your job and open up your own store?” That question may have followed…
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House & Home
View from the Garden: The Joys of June Gardening in the Hamptons
The beginning of June! Although it started with a VERY hot day, the next day was sublime…coolish with a delightful…
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Song & Stage
Opera Gone Wild at Bay Street Theatre
Bay Street Theatre’s 2013 Mainstage Season opened on June 1 with a wacky production of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a…
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Blog Du Jour
Ditch Plains Beach Will Be Saved By the Feds Just in Time, Thanks to Congressman Tim Bishop
On Tuesday I got a frantic email forwarded to me from Laraine Creegan from the Montauk Chamber of Commerce regarding…
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100 Songs of Summer #91: “Volcano” by Jimmy Buffett
There is nobody else in the world that symbolizes the summer lifestyle through music better
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Song & Stage
The Show Goes On at WHBPAC
Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will celebrate 15 years of providing outstanding entertainment to the East End this summer. Located…
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Artists & Galleries
Still Life with Pots at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
The title of the current show at East Hampton’s Glenn Horowitz Bookseller may seem a bit disconcerting, but we can…
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Artists & Galleries
Darius Yektai: On Country Ground at Tripoli
Darius Yektai’s current exhibition at Tripoli Gallery, “On Country Ground,” kicks off the summer season with a group of six…
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An Ode to Eating Out on The End
You will love this story. I’ve passively researched the topics here over the last six years of living in Montauk,…
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Blog Du Jour
Hanging Out with Some Real Navy SEALS in Montauk at Navy Beach
It was a pretty cool scene at Navy Beach restaurant over the weekend. An outdoor party that included a yacht…
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The Hamptons Subway
Hampton Subway Newsletter May 31 – June 5, 2013
Was that Steven Spielberg seen getting off the subway at the Georgica stop?
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Shopping & Style
Robot Wars! Living the Jetsons Lifestyle
If there’s one gadget that truly epitomizes “technology,” surely it has to be the Robot. For me, the love affair…
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Real Estate News
Insights from Alan Schnurman of Saunders
It takes a great deal of patience, knowledge and dedication to be one of the top brokers on the East…
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Sports, Fitness & Wellness
Introducing the Hamptons Fit Challenge
In last week’s Dan’s Papers “Start Here” page, we learned that there are 97 days between Memorial Day and Labor…
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Kelly Killoren Bensimon’s Book Party at the Montauk Yacht Club
What else is there to say when Kelly Killoren Bensimon comes out to the Hamptons and throws a book party…
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The Scoop
Our Trailer Parks Really Are Better than Yours
Is one person’s trailer another person’s Montauk treasure? A recent New York Post article, “Summer Rental: Hampton Locals’ 2-Month Trailer-Cash…
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