Dan Rattiner’s Stories
People here in the Hamptons may have noticed a red, white and blue bus being driven around this comm...
In 1883, industrialist Josiah Lombard built a 20,000 square foot mansion on the headwaters of Mecox ...
SCENE ON THE SUBWAY
Except for one person, the subway was unused all week because nobody was ...
In recent days, the military have been present on street corners in our communities. And it makes me...
The Montauk Coast Guard Station, a big four-square three-story clapboard building, sits on the shore...
SCENE ON THE SUBWAY
Actor Ethan Hawke was seen on the Hamptons Subway going eastbound toward ...
I think a crucial moment in American history occurred years ago when the government, for the first t...
If you drive up North Sea Road to where it ends amidst the sand dunes of Sebonac, you might notice a...
This year is the 100th anniversary of the largest real estate purchase on the East End by a ...
In the 1990s, two women who lived alone in a mansion on Union Street in Sag Harbor began mak...
SCENE ON THE SUBWAY
Actor Alec Baldwin, his wife Hilaria, their seven children and all their ...
My son David, now in his early 40s, is studying law. He’s begun his first year. Yesterday he calle...
In the 1840s, two mansions in the Greek Revival style were built across from one another in the cent...
SCENE ON THE SUBWAY
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...