South Fork

A Wading River-based real estate lawyer was arrested for allegedly stealing more than $751,000 from a client that the suspect represented in the purchase of a Southampton home, Suffolk County prosecutors said. Peter Giattino, the principal attorney at PVG Legal  Solutions PLLC, was charged with a felony count of second-degree grand larceny at Riverhead…

Twenty years ago, it came to the attention of some local historians that a small, rundown house on the banks of Lake Agawam in Southampton had been the home of a former slave named Pyrrhus Concer. It came up because the current owner had it for sale. A title search had revealed that fact.…

There are three roads that run along the ocean parallel to one another in the exclusive resort section of East Hampton. The one closest to the ocean is called Further Lane, the one next to the closest is Middle Lane and the one farthest from the ocean is Hither Lane. It seems sort of…

For more than a half a century, the home office of Dan’s Papers was in a former private home on the Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton. It had a front lawn, a porch, a parking lot in the back and in those years — 1971 to 2013 — it served us quite well. It also,…