It was a very expensive breakfast at Tiffany's. This morning, the bigwigs at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund -- foundation executive director Stephan Kolb and Anna Wintour among them -- handed over some fat checks to jewelry designers Monique Péan and Eddie Borgo. As recipients of Tiffany & Co. grants, Ms. Péan will receive $150,000 and Read More
The opening salvos in this summer's Hamptons food truck wars have been fired.
Fans of the Ditch Witch--the beloved grub wagon perched at the sandy entrance to Ditch Plains Beach for 17 years--took to Facebook when word got out that the East Hampton Town Board planned to award an exclusive concession for the beach to Read More
The prince most often associated with polo is Harry, but at last night's private screening of Secretariat in Wainscott, the prince getting all the polo players' attention was Rare Prince, a handsome chestnut steed and a great-grandson of the triple-crown winner whose story the soon-to-be released Disney film chronicles. The kind-eyed horse, a former racehorse Read More
Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, here is another sign that Montauk is now officially the satellite Hampton: Cynthia Rowley is opening a shop at 696 Montauk Highway this weekend, next door to the Memory Motel. In deference to the context, the shop will try blend in—there will be no Cynthia Rowley logos or Read More
Unlike East or South Hampton, where the houses are large, the parties are loud, and the ladies wear city shoes, Montauk has always been described by locals as quiet and raw and untouched. But with the arrival of Surf Lodge last summer and the reopened Montauk Yacht Club this season, purchased by real estate heir Read More
Montauk, N.Y.—Despite overcast skies and evening temperatures dipping into the lower 60s, Memorial Day weekend marked the first exodus of the season to the Hamptons.
The stores along Main Street in East Hampton were servicing finicky shoppers; the brunch patrons at Surf Lodge on Sunday morning, May 24, recommended chef Sam Talbot's "Oh. My. God." apple Read More
From the August edition of The Real Deal: The phenomenon that is the Surf Lodge — a new hotel, restaurant and bar that is bringing young professionals to the South Fork's easternmost enclave — could prove to be a boon for the Montauk real estate market. Some East End brokers say the venue ... Read More
A trip to the East End last week was met with rain, wind and cold eating away the last full week of summer. Sad for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, whose Monday-through-Thursday vacation in Montauk was washed out. "It rained every day," he said, after a press conference in Bed-Stuy on Tuesday. He sounded a Read More
With Labor Day Weekend just a few hours away, The Transom decided to go straight to the source: the Long Island Rail Road section of Penn Station. The trip got off to an inauspicious start, however, when a faux-pas was committed: hugging a young child on the subway. Her sweatshirt read: 'Aww someone needs a Read More
It's "too early" to say whether he's running for president, but not too early to clock his third visit to New Hampshire since October. The real kick on these kinds of predictable campaign stops are the local papers. Here's the Portsmouth Herald entry on Pataki's visit. Two greatest hits: Pataki made the proverbial Republican Read More
On Friday, Aug. 15, the Bridgehampton Beach Club was thronged past capacity with villagers, none of whom had brought their bathing suits. Cars were parked illegally on the grass for half a mile down Ocean Road. Dozens of policemen were stationed at the entrance, and officers surveyed the scene in a mobile command unit parked Read More
POLO-PLAYING PUBLISHER RENTS WARHOL'S COMPOUND In 1972, broker Tina Fredericks, who owns her own realty firm in East Hampton, showed Andy Warhol, his partner Paul Morrissey and a carload of friends around the Hamptons in search of a summer home. Warhol found the area dreadfully boring, but when they drove into Montauk, he perked up Read More
