Sag Harbor

Today, giant sculptures created by internationally known artists sit on the lawns of perhaps 50 offices, stores and cultural institutions in the Hamptons. It was not always so. Back around 2006, a bitter fight took place in Sag Harbor when one of the first of those sculptures got placed on the lawn of a…

The Watchcase Factory in Sag Harbor, which today is a four story condominium with 64 units, some 3,000 sq. ft. in size, was built in 1875. Prior to that time, the town had been a bustling home port for the American whaling industry. More than a hundred whaling ships berthed in Sag Harbor during…

In the 1990s, two women who lived alone in a mansion on Union Street in Sag Harbor began making news. They were sisters. Their father, Baron-Dr. Attilio Giacomo “Jack” Morpurgo, a wealthy physician, had died and left the house to them in his will together with sufficient funds to pay its expenses far into…

The historic village of Sag Harbor has been trying to establish more affordable housing units for several years now, but efforts have been halting.