What's the one constant in Sag Harbor's 300 year history? Change. Starting as the port for the farmers in Sagaponack, Sag Harbor went on to become a bustling center of trade, home to one of the country's largest whaling fleets, and an industrial center producing everything from watchcases to parts for the lunar landing module. As you walk the village, ...   more »

There's a new and very active group in our community calling itself Save Sag Harbor. Its primary mission is to preserve Main Street's traditional look and business mix -- mostly small locally-owned stores and restaurants -- by preventing national chains and big box stores like CVS from moving in and driving up commercial rents to the point where they are ...   more »

Two Sundays ago my wife and I were in Richmond, a city of approximately 200,000 people, and the capital of the State of Virginia. We were visiting friends, and as it was our first time in the city, they offered to take us on a quick tour of some of the main attractions. We soon discovered three things about Richmond: ...   more »

This is an actual and honest question. If anyone knows the answer, please let the rest of us know by posting a comment.

The question is: Why are there no Toyota, Honda, Subaru, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi or Hyundai dealers anywhere in Sag Hampton? Don't tell me they're in Riverhead, that's 50 minutes away when there's no traffic. We have Ford, ...   more »

I Like

1. The Community. Sag Harbor is still largely a community of people who live here year-round and care about the town, its institutions and each other. There are lots of groups and organizations to get involved with -- school, fire department, historical society, library, theater, museums, chamber of commerce, churches, synagogue and more. And, whether you choose to get involved ...   more »

Our house sits on a half-acre lot, in a neighborhood of half-acre lots located just south of the Village line. It's a modest neighborhood by Sag Hampton standards. It's not in the historic district, in fact the neighborhood is so not historic that it didn't even exist before 1987, give or take a year. Before then it was just woods. ...   more »

A few days ago, a Sag Hampton resident I've known for years said to me, "The Long Island Railroad should be running shuttle trains in the Hamptons. There should be a train at least every half hour." I started to tell him about Five Towns Rural Transit (5TRT) and the East End Transportation Council (EETC), and the $400,000 grant from the State that those organizations got to study that very situation, but he interrupted me. "Study? What a waste of money. Why doesn't the railroad do it? It'd be a great thing, and they'd get a lot more people using the trains out here that way." ...   more »

Google Maps says it's 98.6 miles from the library in the middle of Sag Harbor to the Empire State Building, which I think of as being the metaphorical middle of New York City. Interesting...take the temperature of any healthy person in Sag Harbor, and you come up with the distance we live from Manhattan. I'm sure there's a correlation there. Maybe the key word is "healthy," in that our health is somehow tied to living almost 100 miles from one of, if not the, greatest city in the world.   more »

Right now, I'm thinking "theater-lover's", thanks to the glorious reading that was given to Susan Merrell's excellent new play Unused Characters at the Bay Street Theatre today. But, the blank in the sentence that is the title of this post could be completed in so many other ways.   more »

Are there things you love about Sag Hampton? Well, they're about to change. What are you going to do about it?

"Are you talking to me?" you're probably thinking in your best Robert De Niro Taxi Driver imitation.

Darn right, I'm talking to you.

Here's another question: did you know that there are heroes here in Sag Hampton? There are -- lots of them, but probably not enough.

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