Backstory: Jeff Parsons & the Rock in Bridgehampton

Dan's Bridgehampton office
Dan’s Papers By Dan Rattiner

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,…

Flushing Financial merging with Ocean First

Flushing Bank CEO John Buran
LI Press By Claude Solnik

The old year ended with a new beginning for Long Island’s banking sector, as a major regional bank announced it is acquiring a Nassau-based financial institution. Flushing Financial, parent of Flushing Savings Bank, said it reached a deal valued at more than half a billion dollars to merge with OceanFirst Financial, parent of Ocean…

Mark R. Buick & a Sensational Murder in the Hamptons

47 Pantigo Road, the former site of Mark R. Buick, in East Hampton
Dan’s Papers By Dan Rattiner

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…

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