Backstory: The Amazing History of Bay Street in Sag Harbor

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor
Dan’s Papers

Bay Street Theater, one of the seven major cultural stages for live performances in the Hamptons, currently operates out of a brick building on Long Wharf which was originally built as a manufacturing company that tested torpedoes. The factory that made the torpedoes for the Navy was J C Bliss and Co. in Brooklyn…

Backstory: The Legal Fight Over Larry’s Legs in Sag Harbor

"Legs" by Larry Rivers in Sag Harbor
Dan’s Papers

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…