Call it an inflection point: One of the two news weeklies on the South Fork of Long Island, N.Y., propounds, “[I]t’s time to turn the page on land preservation as a priority and begin to think about preserving something else: a workable, livable community.” For decades under previous and current ownership, the Southampton Press withContinue reading “Hamptons Pivot: Preserve Land or the Landless?”
Tag Archives: Southampton
Why the Hamptons Can’t Have (Many) Nice Sewers
One hair-trigger topic of land use on the South Fork of Long Island, now that “the Hamptons” have mostly been built out, is the construction of sewage or water treatment plants. This early February story in the Southampton Press, subsequently picked up in Newsday, concerns plans to put such a facility on 6 wooded acresContinue reading “Why the Hamptons Can’t Have (Many) Nice Sewers”
Foothold for a Future Trader Joe’s in the Hamptons?
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?”
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”
Hamptons Living With a (Tree) Farm View
In the hypermarket that is today’s Hamptons real estate, a property bordering on an agricultural reserve has a powerful selling point. Anyone with a few million can have a McMansion, but is your vista protected from somebody else’s development? Still, there are reserves, and then there are reserves. And what I picked up from aContinue reading “Hamptons Living With a (Tree) Farm View”
Why the Hamptons Has No Bike Path Like This
Go to many affluent communities in North America and you notice some kind of safe cycling path. Not on the South Fork of Long Island. You do see, outside of winter, some intrepid bicyclists—occasionally I am one. A few streets have designated bike lanes, where vehicles shouldn’t be blocking, but rarely do these extend forContinue reading “Why the Hamptons Has No Bike Path Like This”
Was Hamptons Democrats’ Sweep a Clean One?
Election of Maria Moore as supervisor of Southampton town on Long Island was said by her backers to be a “green” triumph, but the Democrat got a big financial boost from a golf course mogul who masked his support.
Will Half a Billion Buy a B.A. in the Hamptons?
Word this week of a $500 million gift to Stony Brook University (a State University of New York branch on Long Island) can’t help but have East End residents wondering: Will this bring sustained academic life to town? For all its riches, the Hamptons does not have higher ed. The main Stony Brook campus isContinue reading “Will Half a Billion Buy a B.A. in the Hamptons?”
Summer Swells, Circa Hamptons 1957
The conceit of a series of posts here about the Hamptons is that, after a first rush of summer “colonies” that culminated in the Roaring Twenties, the East End of Long Island went through sleepy decades until a new wave of city money began to stir development again in the late 1960s. That is generallyContinue reading “Summer Swells, Circa Hamptons 1957”
When a Shopping Mall Came to the Hamptons
Articles appearing on the front pages of their weekly papers 50 years ago—Feb. 3, 1972—were a surprise to many who’d begun making the Hamptons a weekend or summer home. Construction was beginning on a shopping center in their idyllic midst. Plaza East would be a first…and remain to this day the only of its kind.Continue reading “When a Shopping Mall Came to the Hamptons”
Tim W. Ferguson 