East Hampton

If you happen to be in East Hampton and decide to see the sights, you might wind up visiting an 18th century saltbox home on James Lane just off Main Street, now a museum, that is called “Home Sweet Home.” This home celebrates John Howard Payne, the man who wrote the lyrics to that…

In each episode of the “Who’s Here in the Hamptons” podcast (aka Dan’s Talks), Dan’s Papers founder Dan Rattiner introduces you to a new guest, some well-known, others with interesting careers and stories, authors, musicians, restaurateurs, some characters and some behind-the-scenes people who live, work and play in the summer paradise of the rich and famous.…

About halfway up Newtown Lane in East Hampton on the eastern side there sits a store whose history tells of changes in the downtown better than any other. It doesn’t have big show windows. It’s in an English style, a sort of stucco and half timber affair. I don’t know when it was built,…

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…

In this column, I write about existing buildings in the Hamptons and what happens to them as they get sold from one buyer to another. In this column, however, the building on the property I’m writing about is not there anymore. It is just an empty field. The hope, however, was to make it…