Progress toward a major distribution center for retailer Trader Joe’s may increase the chances of one or more of the budget-gourmet stores finally reaching the East End of Long Island, NY. To date, most parts of the “Hamptons” are 40 or more miles from the nearest outlet. Other economical shopping choices are also in shortContinue reading “Foothold for a Future Trader Joe’s in the Hamptons?”
Category Archives: Hamptons Land
Checking Hamptons’ Building Bent, From the Ground Up
Growth controls on luxury housing may be coming to the town of Southampton, N.Y., after earlier moves in East Hampton township and Southold town on the North Fork of Long Island. Southampton councilman Michael Iasilli, a young Democrat with a progressive bent, is taking a slightly different tack in legislation he’s adapting for formal introduction.Continue reading “Checking Hamptons’ Building Bent, From the Ground Up”
Echoes of the ’70s in a Changed Sag Harbor
As the village of Sag Harbor, N.Y., sought fitfully in the 1970s to renew itself, two young men from west of the Shinnecock Canal–a symbolic divide in the Hamptons real-estate game, which is mostly to the east–came to play notable roles. One was Ted Conklin, who purchased the American Hotel on Main Street—a hostelry andContinue reading “Echoes of the ’70s in a Changed Sag Harbor”
‘Poor’ Greenport Wants Slice of a Preservation Bounty
Land prices have ballooned on the North Fork of Long Island, particularly since the Covid pandemic, adding to fears of “Hamptonization.” And these are felt in Greenport Village, long established as a fishing and boating burgh and in recent years as a foodie haven amid the fork’s surrounding farm and vineyard culture. (It’s also theContinue reading “‘Poor’ Greenport Wants Slice of a Preservation Bounty”
Shinnecocks vs. Southampton and the Road Most Traveled
Continued legal strife between the Long Island, N.Y. town of Southampton and the Shinnecock tribal nation this week brought a key piece of South Fork land-use history into the picture. No–not the original “treaties” by which white settlers laid claim to their now-rich foothold on the Atlantic Ocean, but a more recent land seizure. ThisContinue reading “Shinnecocks vs. Southampton and the Road Most Traveled”
Sag Harbor’s Re-Emergence, in One Address
This weekend’s New York Times real-estate section has a nicely turned encapsulation of changes in the village of Sag Harbor, N.Y., over the last four decades. It’s told through the ownership of one of the formerly modest homes from the “UnHamptons” village’s industrial past–houses that now sell or rent for a fortune in Sag Harbor’sContinue reading “Sag Harbor’s Re-Emergence, in One Address”
Political Upheaval on the Southampton Shores
Amid the national “blue wave” at the polls Tuesday, engaged Southampton Town Democrats scored another triumph, most notably in sweeping five trustee seats, traditionally a Republican redoubt in much of New York’s Long Island. Town trustees manage the various (and many) waterfronts, including both salt and fresh-water ponds (aka lakes). They are distinct from theContinue reading “Political Upheaval on the Southampton Shores”
Hamptons Builders Face Less Room for Outsizing
Today’s Newsday catches up with East Hampton township’s reductions in just how large houses there can be built. This issue has gathered on the East End of Long Island, N.Y., in recent years as “mansionization” is blamed for changing the characters of neighborhoods–both visually and demographically–and for quickening the rise in land and thus homeContinue reading “Hamptons Builders Face Less Room for Outsizing”
Is Southampton Using Permits to Weed Out Commerce?
It’s common among preservationists on the East End of Long Island, N.Y., to regard the town of Southampton as lax in its allowance of development and other commercial concerns. There’s some basis* for that, especially in contrast to the town of East Hampton, but just as much reason to see dilatoriness in getting projects approvedContinue reading “Is Southampton Using Permits to Weed Out Commerce?”
When YIMBY Comes to a Southampton Hamlet
Providing “affordable housing” in the midst of a price surge on the East End of Long Island, N.Y., is challenging enough—but the additional political wrinkles that come with each specific project were on display this month at a community-board meeting in the North Sea hamlet of Southampton town. It took place not far from whereContinue reading “When YIMBY Comes to a Southampton Hamlet”
Tim W. Ferguson 