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Now, a Hub for Digital Nomads

Now, a Hub for Digital Nomads

Casey Powers, an entrepreneur from East Hampton, joined the new co-working space in Southampton to focus on developing her businesses in a collaborative setting with creative thinkers, an atmosphere that working from home does not foster.
Casey Powers, an entrepreneur from East Hampton, joined the new co-working space in Southampton to focus on developing her businesses in a collaborative setting with creative thinkers, an atmosphere that working from home does not foster.
By
Judy D’Mello

The Spur, a recently opened co-working and entrepreneurial space in Southampton, is a sort of a microenvironment that for a monthly fee offers an attractive work-life balance to a cohort of ambitious remote workers suffering from cabin fever.

In Brooklyn and Manhattan, the collaborative workspace phenomenon is almost at saturation point. WeWork, the most ubiquitous of them, has been likened to the Starbucks of co-workspaces, with 90 locations worldwide. 

But here on the South Fork, Starbucks is the WeWork of virtual offices for freelancers and entrepreneurs, other than a home desk or sometimes the library.

Ashley Heather, a British transplant who lived with his wife in Manhattan and moved to Water Mill three years ago with their three children, decided this area needed an inspiring co-working space, having done his time as a digital nomad, working from home or in Starbucks.

To be perfectly clear, Mr. Heather is not exactly your average start-up guy toiling away in a coffee shop. He said he’s been an entrepreneur as far back as he can remember, and as such, a problem solver. He solved some of life’s irksome little problems in the early 2000s, like how to identify a song you might hear at the gym or in a taxi, developing what became the Shazam app, which can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows based on a short sample. Later he launched a lesser-known fashion app that could identify clothing and accessories worn by television stars and offer a link to websites where the outfits could be bought. 

He is also the founder of a bricks-and-mortar concern in Chelsea, the White Space Group, which, according to its website, works with “new and established brands who are looking to accelerate growth of their business, primarily in the digital domain.”

After moving to Water Mill, Mr. Heather founded iHamptons, a nonprofit organization that bills itself as “the hub of entrepreneurs in the Hamptons . . . bringing together all the resources needed to launch and build an innovative company.” The organization produces an annual event called “Riptide: $ink or $wim,” the Hamptons’ first start-up pitch competition open to entrepreneurs or innovators who pitch their start-up ideas to a group of judges for a chance to win up to $25,000. The company’s tagline is “Innovation’s a beach.”

Innovation is also a buzzword at the Spur, which Mr. Heather launched in January. A neon sign greets visitors: “By innovation only” — a wordplay that captures both the club’s membership-only essence as well as the requisite esprit of those clamoring to get in. 

“We’ve turned down many applicants,” Mr. Heather said over lunch, which is complimentary, at the Spur this week. “They’ve got to be a core fit,” he said, meaning that the initial 150 members they hope to sign up should represent freelance techie-types from industries such as media, technology, food and hospitality, and fashion and beauty. No one looking to simply network in the hopes of expanding his or her contact list will be allowed, he said. 

For the moment, the Spur is housed in an 1884 former potato and grain barn and weigh station that sits on a tiny parcel adjacent to the Southampton train station. Billy Joel once stored his pianos there. When a train rumbles past and the building shakes, one can almost imagine it’s Williamsburg, with the rattling subway below. 

The Brooklyn hipster vibe is reflected in the effortlessly eclectic furniture, the majority of which Mr. Heather said he found in local estate sales. The exposed brick walls, hand-hewn pine floors and beams, and a monthly rotation of featured artists make for a rather more attractive and inspirational alternative to Starbucks or the clutter of a kitchen table. The building’s original antique freight elevator is still operational and will soon transport members to the basement, where Lymbr, a health and wellness company that promotes a healthier quality of life through guided stretching, will operate.

In return for this, as well as free-flowing fruit-infused water, herbal teas, breakfast, lunch, a conference table that doubles as a Ping-Pong surface, and fun networking events, members pay a sliding monthly subscription, ranging from about $200 to $500 for year-round residents, depending on their needs for fixed desks or flex desks. There are also summer-only packages. As a bonus, two Tesla cars are available for pickups and drop-offs.

On Tuesday, a handful of members occupied communal tables and private booth spaces designed for the Spur by California Closets.

Casey Powers, an East Hampton mother of two young children, who once worked at Goldman Sachs, joined the Spur two weeks ago to get away from her home office and the Starbucks environment. She is developing two mother-and-baby-centric product lines and hopes to be more productive in the four to five hours a day she aims to spend working at one of the Spur’s tables.

Isolation is a major problem for the self-employed, and Ms. Powers echoed this. “A little socialization among like-minded entrepreneurial people is a good thing,” she said. 

Mickey Beyer-Clausen is the founder of an app called Mental Workout, which promises to increase performance through mental health. Mr. Beyer-Clausen, who is Danish but has lived in Southampton for 10 years, has introduced a number of successful apps, including one with Virgin Atlantic to help with the fear of flying. He opted for a private, designated desk at the Spur, where he is now designing an app that focuses on improving the well-being of the corporate work force.

Also busy at work was Scott Lewis, a financial-tech entrepreneur at present creating a crypto wallet in conjunction with the Shinnecock Indian Nation. He hopes to unveil it on June 14 at the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills.

The Spur’s utopian ambition will be fully realized when the company moves this fall to a permanent 10,000-square-foot space in a defunct car dealership at the corner of Montauk Highway and Flying Point Road in Southampton.

Membership capacity will increase to 500, and there will be multiple conference rooms, a restaurant, and a bar. The social events calendar will expand, as will the currently offered tech-focused program for young kids designed by Greg Wilson, the director of the Ross School’s Innovation Lab initiative. The Lymbr fitness facility will follow, as will the Teslas.

Given the growing phenomenon of co-working spaces and the changing nature of today’s work force, Mr. Heather, together with Gary Bierfriend, who three months ago became the president of the company, plans to open hubs in Montauk, East Hampton, and Greenport. They will be modeled to resemble a hybrid of the WeWork archetype and the exclusive Soho House members’ club for people in the creative industries. The goal is for the company to open 20 such clubs in premium resort areas like the Hamptons in the next three years.

“I’m a serial connector,” Mr. Heather said with a smile. Surely then, following in WeWork’s footsteps, the next big lure promises to be co-living.

Recorded Deeds: 05.31.18

Recorded Deeds: 05.31.18

The prices below have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.
By
Star Staff

AMAGANSETT

D.F.P. Inc. (by referee) to Richardson Court L.L.C., 519 Montauk Highway, .64 acre (vacant), March 23, $812,000.

T. and H. Field to Town of East Hampton, 263 Main Street and lot 9.007 (vacant), Dec. 28, $1,125,000.

M. Jonas Trust to Fisher Family L.L.C., 120 Hand Lane, 1 acre, March 22, $5,875,000.

159 Atlantic L.L.C. to SFAM Atlantic L.L.C., 159 Atlantic Avenue, .3 acre, April 3, $7,950,000.

 

BRIDGEHAMPTON

E. Otero to E. Todd, 1295 Sagg Road, .75 acre, March 30, $725,000.

 

EAST HAMPTON 

L. Kuplins to S. Taylor, 3 Deer Lane, .8 acre, March 28, $975,000.

R. Schwartz and Garson to S. Gordon and L. Pickholtz, 55 Ely Brook Road, 1.4 acres, March 26, $1,200,000.

Ash Family Trust to Stone and Feather, 21 Two Holes of Water Road, 2.2 acres, March 30, $995,000.

P. and S. Vaccari to Thiry and Buchner-Thiry, 5 Rose Hill Road, 1.1 acres, March 22, $890,000.

HCDC Realty Corp to Solano, Burneo, and Groga, 346 Three Mile Harbor Road, .42 acre, Aug. 3, $615,000.

 

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

H. Phillips Trust to 7CHF L.L.C., 7 Cove Hollow Farm Road, 2.82 acres (vacant), April 13, $6,000,000.

H. Phillips Trust to JD3 L.L.C., 3 Cove Hollow Farm Road, 2.84 acres, April 13, $6,000,000.

West End Lot 4 L.L.C. to 24 West End Road, 24 West End Avenue, 1.54 acres (vacant), March 26, $17,200,000.

West End Lot 5 L.L.C. to 20 West End Road, 20 West End Avenue, 1.18 acres, March 26, $6,800,000.

 

MONTAUK

T. and P. Lupinacci to D. and M. Chakraborty, 120 Soundview Drive, .81 acre, March 29, $2,350,000.

G. and C. Kadlec to C. Forsberg, 287 Flamingo Avenue, .19 acre, March 25, $645,000.

E. Dabbene (by referee) to Rough Riders Landing, 23 Fort Pond Road, Unit 30, March 28, $368,581.

Rough Riders Landing to L. Arcara, 23 Fort Pond Road, Unit 30, March 23, $530,000.

R. and R. O’Connell to M. and K. Miller, 78 Benson Drive, .17 acre, March 26, $920,000.

 

NORTH HAVEN

Insource EastProprts to Schwartz, D., and Bertolini, 9 Tyndall Road, .46 acre, March 30, $910,000.

 

NOYAC

M. Grupa (by referee) to Deutsche Bank National Association, 2766 Noyac Road, 1.16 acres, Feb. 2, $2,692,067

J. Bucchino to D. Fallarino, 16 Breezy Drive, .48 acre, April 2, $965,000.

 

SAG HARBOR

Mongiello, Stanco, and Hol to Heirloom Partners L.L.C., 71 Franklin Avenue, .15 acre, April 17, $885,000.

T. Cooper to J. and C. Smith, 209 Division Street, .09 acre, March 28, $1,650,000.

Myasha, Gollum, and Mag to Happy On Main L.L.C., 16 Main Street, .26 acre, March 15, $6,100,000.

H. Choi to S. Neyland, 15 Church Street, Unit G-114, March 14, $1,175,000.

 

SPRINGS

J. and J. Giardina to 248 KPR L.L.C., 248 King’s Point Road, .46 acre, March 29, $1,550,000.

D. Malone to P. Rabito, 10 Wildflower Road, 1.01 acres, March 29, $762,500.

Citimortgage Inc. to P. and A. Whitney, 29 15th Street, .28 acre, March 29, $490,000.

R. and C. Mellor to V. and S. Befekadu, 140 Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road, 2.2 acres, March 14, $945,000.

J. McAlinden Trusts to D. and E. Parker, 20 Red Dirt Road, 1.17 acres, March 16, $1,175,000.

 

WATER MILL

Kidd Construction Co. to M. and C. Racioppi, 211 Roses Grove Road, 2.2 acres, March 14, $3,750,000.

H. Zobel to 42 Tony Tiska’s L.L.C., 42 Tony Tiska’s Path, 1.1 acres, Sept. 15, $2,521,500.

RCF Properties L.L.C. to Seven Ponds Road, 426 Seven Ponds Towd Road, .97 acre (vacant), April 20, $2,000,000.

Bay Lane Realty L.L.C. to P. Amster, 39 Bay Lane, .92 acre, April 3, $5,500,000. 

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton

Keeping Account: 05.31.18

Keeping Account: 05.31.18

Local Business Notes
By
Star Staff

Goop Does Sag

After popping up in Amagansett last summer, Goop, the lifestyle brand founded by the actress Gwyneth Paltrow, opened an outpost at 4 Bay Street in Sag Harbor last weekend.

The store, which sells fashion, beauty, home, wellness, and specialty goods, has been conceived as a summer spot stocked with merchandise curated for a Hamptons clientele. It also features an outdoor space where dinners and parties will be held throughout the summer. Among the fashion offerings are Prada shoes and handbags, Saks Fifth Avenue clothing, and Goop’s own apparel line, G. Label. The home collection includes vintage furniture, marble accessories from Caravan, and designer seagrass baskets. 

The store is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Sept. 3.

A Shop’s Turkish Connection

A Shop’s Turkish Connection

Mickey Ashmore, Ariana Diaz-Jones, and Preston Jones at Sabah House, Amagansett.
Mickey Ashmore, Ariana Diaz-Jones, and Preston Jones at Sabah House, Amagansett.
Sabah means morning in both Turkish and Arabic
By
Isabel Carmichael

From cobalt blue to red to deep pewter, the colorful shoes passers-by will see in the window of Sabah, a small shopfront on Main Street in Amagansett next to Tack Trunk, are back this summer, still as a pop-up enterprise, but one that will be there for longer than last year, until Labor Day.

Sabah means morning in both Turkish and Arabic.

Mickey Ashmore, who worked in finance strategy for Microsoft in Istanbul for two years and then in finance in Manhattan, in February celebrated Sabah’s newly renovated four-story workshop in Gaziantep in southeast Turkey, once a transit city for ISIS and a Silk Road town that is home to a million Syrian refugees, five of whom went through a training program to become stitchers at the workshop. The program is also open to women, and three Syrian women are being trained.

As a result of Mr. Ashmore’s redesign of a traditional slipper, there are now 30 men stitching 3,000 pairs of shoes a month. The business started with five stitchers working for the family who owned the workshop and who had been making curly-toed Turkish slippers since 1887.

They work with 10 to 15 tanneries, buying pre-tanned and pre-dyed sheets of leather that are ready to be made into shoes. Once they are cut and stitched, which takes about three hours, the damp leather has to be fitted in a mold or on a last and allowed to set for 24 hours. Child-size shoes have been added to the offerings, as have slip-ons, and all have rubber soles that can be replaced once they wear out. 

Sabah shops can also be found in the East Village, Dallas, which is Mr. Ashmore’s hometown, Tokyo, Washington, D.C., Venice Beach, Calif., and even in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.

From Bare-Bones to Boutique

From Bare-Bones to Boutique

The former Inn at East Hampton on Pantigo Road has been transformed into a new hotel that opens next Thursday.
The former Inn at East Hampton on Pantigo Road has been transformed into a new hotel that opens next Thursday.
Jamie Bufalino
“we’re not worried about the past, we’re looking to the future.”
By
Jamie Bufalino

A motel in East Hampton that once served as a de facto affordable housing complex is being transformed into a boutique hotel that is charging up to $907 for one night’s stay.

For the past few months, construction crews have been hard at work at 490 Pantigo Road, the site of the former Inn at East Hampton, a long, two-story structure that sits perpendicular to the highway and features a row of 11 guest rooms on each floor. As recently as 2016, the inn — which had been owned by Alex Demetriades — was renting the rooms unfurnished, for as little as $1,300 a month, to local workers, mostly Latino, who were unable to find an affordable home, apartment, or even a room in a shared house. 

In a June 2016 article in The Star about residential life at the Inn at East Hampton, a few of its inhabitants discussed the bare-bones living conditions. Since most of the rooms lacked cooking facilities, many used electric hot plates and rice cookers to prepare meals. Small refrigerators were purchased to store food. Dishes were washed in the bathroom sink or the bathtub. 

In 2015, the East Hampton Town fire marshal’s office received a complaint of overcrowding at the inn. Although that charge proved to be unfounded, officials did uncover 61 violations of the New York State Fire Prevention and Building Code. The fire marshal issued a statement saying that such violations created “serious life-safety hazards and fire hazards, all in violation of the code.”

The property has since been bought by Bridgeton Holdings, a Manhattan real estate development company that owns a portfolio of hotels and residential and commercial buildings in cities nationwide, including New York, San Francisco, and Boston.

Philip Cham, the company’s director of hospitality, said that he was vaguely familiar with the building’s checkered history, but added that “we’re not worried about the past, we’re looking to the future.”

The future, as the new owners have envisioned it, includes turning the Inn at East Hampton into Journey East Hampton, a hotel offering rooms with flat-screen TVs, mini-fridges, luxury amenities, access to an outdoor swimming pool, and free continental breakfast. Eventually, the hotel will also have three guest cottages available on its neighboring property at 492 Pantigo Road.

According to Mr. Cham, Journey East Hampton passed its certificate of occupancy inspection on Friday, and the hotel’s opening day will be next Thursday.

Recorded Deeds: 06.07.18

Recorded Deeds: 06.07.18

The prices below have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.
By
Star Staff

AMAGANSETT

125 Barnes Hole Road to 125 Barnes Hole L.L.C., 125 Barnes Hole Road, .34 acre, March 29, $825,000.

E. Hughes to B. George and A. Upton, 75 Cliff Road, .44 acre, April 6, $1,725,000.

 

BRIDGEHAMPTON

P. and N. Sheft to Verdant Lawn L.L.C., 94 Ocean Road, .71 acre, April 10, $4,700,000.

 

EAST HAMPTON

Kidd Construction Co. to S. Schmidt, 6 Koala Lane, 1.94 acres, April 6, $3,320,000.

 

NORTH HAVEN

J. and A. Destefanis to B. Kamper, 5 3rd Street, .43 acre, April 16, $695,000.

 

NOYAC

H., G., and R. Helbing to S. and M. Lessar, 62 Noyack Harbor Road, April 6, $3,340,000.

S. Levy to Millstone Real Estate, 1561 Millstone Road, 2.3 acres, March 22, $900,000.

D. Foster to Little Noyac Field, 182 Wildwood Road, 2.2 acres (vacant), Feb. 28, $610,000.

 

SAG HARBOR

B. Lynch to S. Pulliam, 147 Hampton Street, .11 acre, April 6, $590,000.

11 Vickers Street to 11 Vickers L.L.C., 11 Vickers Street, .52 acre, April 9, $1,089,000.

L. Doyle to P. and P. Meech, 22 Cornell Road, .21 acre, April 27, $1,200,000.

M. Rowan to Bridge SH L.L.C., 18 Bridge Street, March 8, $575,000.

Water Street Development to FGSH L.L.C., 21 West Water Street, Penthouse B, March 20, $4,509,000.

SAGAPONACK

163 Northwest Path to Twinkle Holdings L.L.C., 163 North-west Path, 1.53 acres, April 11, $3,100,000.

 

SPRINGS

M. Eddy to X. and D. Lin, 34 Camberly Road, .43 acre, March 29, $755,000.

P. Levine Trust to Equity 98 Holdings, 61 Manor Lane North, .53 acre (vacant), April 11, $345,000.

R. Mink to E., H., and V. Neel, 29 Louse Point Road, 2.77 acres, April 13, $1,625,000.

467 Springs L.L.C. to Milano Homebase East, 467 Springs-Fireplace Road, 2.1 acres, April 5, $1,575,000.

O. Mancilla (by referee) to Bank of NY Mellon, 25 Hollyoak Avenue, .4 acre, March 16, $592,236.

J. Duboff to J. and E. McKee, 

8 Highland Boulevard, .5 acre, April 12, $550,000.

 

WAINSCOTT

Town of East Hampton to 3 Dog Farm L.L.C., 3 Industrial Road, 2 acres, April 5, $1,413,130.

Beachlane Realty L.L.C. to 120 Beach Lane L.L.C., 120 Beach Lane, 2.3 acres, April 10, $15,000,000.

 

WATER MILL

672 Little Noyack Path to E. and R. Campanella, 672 Little Noyack Path, 1.33 acres, March 29, $4,225,000.

Peach Creek L.L.C. to Luna Investors L.L.C., 186 Little Noyack Path, 1.84 acres, April 2, $4,933,969.

M. Ayres and J. Kietzmann to G. Wiener, 36 Rosewood Court, 1.02 acres, March 25, $998,000.

B. Francis Trust to 5 Pierson L.L.C., 5 Pierson Court, .92 acre (vacant), April 9, $2,900,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton

CBD, Now at a Farm Stand Near You

CBD, Now at a Farm Stand Near You

Industrial hemp, used to manufacture CBD.
Industrial hemp, used to manufacture CBD.
Judy D’Mello
Open Minded Organics gets into industrial hemp business
By
Judy D’Mello

They look the same, smell the same, and taste the same, as industrial hemp and marijuana belong to the same plant species, the Cannabis sativa. But that’s where the similarities end, because comparing industrial hemp to marijuana is like comparing a portobello mushroom to a psychedelic one.

“Just like there’s a difference between cherry tomatoes and beefsteak tomatoes,” said David Falkowski, the founder of the Open Minded Organics farm in Bridgehampton, “there are different cannabis plants.” 

Mr. Falkowski is the only registered processor of industrial hemp on Long Island. He uses it to manufacture CBD, or cannabidiol, a chemical extracted from the cannabis plant that has gained prominence in recent years for its therapeutic properties in helping all manner of ailments, from restless nights and anxiety to aching muscles, menopause, and even skin problems. As a result, CBD products, such as tinctures, edibles, lotions, gel caps, and balms, are popping up everywhere, in heath food stores, yoga studios, the gym, juice bars, and, naturally, at Mr. Falkowski’s farm stand.

But misinformation about CBD is widespread, and the stigma attached to cannabis runs deep. So Mr. Falkowski and other reputable CBD manufacturers are eager for people to understand the facts.

CBD products are legal, if sourced from federally compliant farms. They are nonpsychoactive, as they contain less than 0.3 percent THC, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the compound responsible for that “stoned” feeling. Industrial hemp cultivars, such as Sour Tsunami, Turpey Hemp, and Wulf, are specifically grown for hemp-derived products and CBD, not for euphoric drug use.

In fact, as Richard Ball, New York’s commissioner of agriculture and markets and an enthusiastic promoter of the hemp industry, once said, “You can smoke industrial hemp for a week and all you will get is a sore throat.”

As such, farming industrial hemp, which Mr. Falkowski does in an undisclosed area — “Not because I have anything to hide, but because I don’t need high school kids thinking it’s weed and destroying it all” — is heavily regulated. 

The plant varieties he grows are approved by the Industrial Hemp Research Initiative of New York State, a government program launched in 2015 to enable certain educational institutions to grow and research industrial hemp. Since then, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has introduced and signed legislation to establish industrial hemp as an agricultural commodity. Mr. Falkowski’s plants undergo stringent compliance inspections to test the levels of THC during all stages of farming and harvesting.

“This is the last chance for small, blue-collar farmers to stay in the legalized marijuana business,” he said, since obtaining a license to grow medical marijuana is now prohibitively expensive. 

The Alchemist’s Kitchen is a Manhattan-based manufacturer of botanical medicines. A few weeks ago, the company introduced its CBD product line at the Mandala Yoga Center for Healing Arts in Amagansett Square.

“There’s a history that goes back hundreds of years between cannabis and yoga,” said Lou Sagar, the chief executive officer of the Alchemist’s Kitchen, which he founded in 2015. “So, I was motivated by trying to educate people on the benefits of CBD, and one way to do that was through yoga teachers and their studios.”

“Of all the CBD companies that approached us to sell their products,” said Jolie Parcher, the founder and owner of Mandala Yoga, “Lou was the only one who wanted to see who we are and if we were right for the Alchemist’s Kitchen, which gave me the opportunity to check out their mission and decide if they were right for us.”

The company is “intention-based,” Mr. Sagar said, with seven resident herbalists who prescribe botanical remedies depending on a person’s needs or intentions. His CBD is sourced from a federally regulated Hudson Valley farm, and his goal is to create socially responsible products. The medicinal benefits of CBD, he stressed, are merely claim-based and not scientific, but when produced well, it offers three main benefits: anti-inflammatory, pain relief, and stress and anxiety-reduction.

CBD first came to public attention in a 2013 CNN documentary called “Weed,” featuring a young girl in Colorado who had a rare and life-threatening form of epilepsy that by the time she was 5 caused 300 grand mal seizures a week. Through online research, her desperate parents heard of treating her syndrome with high-CBD cannabis, which almost immediately ended her seizures.

Since then, CBD has gone mainstream, evolving into one of today’s biggest wellness fads. In Los Angeles, it can be found in cocktails, and juice shops will add a few drops of CBD-infused olive oil to a beverage. CBD beer has been introduced in the United Kingdom. In the Sag Harbor Gym on Bay Street, a countertop display of CBD products offers snack packs of gummy animals and a dropper filled with a single dose. 

Despite all of this, there is still much confusion about the legality of CBD. 

In April, Forbes published an article stating that “the Drug Enforcement Administration maintains that CBD is definitely still illegal.” On the D.E.A. website, however, CBD, or cannabidiol, is not listed as a Schedule I controlled substance. The D.E.A. recently issued an official statement, though still murky, basically stating that it is illegal only when sourced from a non-federally sanctioned grower.

What is known is that if CBD oil is ingested in high doses, a urine test for drugs will produce a positive reading, as the test determines only the presence of THC, not CBD. Regardless, for now, users of CBD products are touting it as the new “it” remedy. 

Lisa Zaloga, a yoga teacher who divides her time between Amagansett and New York, began using a tincture produced by the Alchemist’s Kitchen to deal with stress and a CBD balm to treat neck and shoulder aches. “I’m not exactly a skeptic,” she said, “but neither am I overly effusive. But I have to say, after about two weeks of steadily using the oil, I felt my whole nervous system relax.”

About the topical potion, she was unreservedly effusive. “The balm is the bomb. I walked out instantly cured. It was like I had rubbed Advil right into my neck.”

Janice Vaziri, a self-employed accountant who lives in Springs year round, said she was nervous about trying CBD because of the cannabis connection. “But after speaking with Lou, the owner of Alchemist Kitchen, and doing a lot of research, I was more than confident that it was a natural, plant-based way to get some relief from my symptoms without the hallucinogenic component.” Her ailment includes two severely herniated disks. Until she sees a specialist to discuss her options, she said, the balm is a huge help.

Mr. Falkowski of Open Minded Organics was also eager to share testimonials of his CBD clients, who had “amazing stories,” he said. But this week he was busy networking in Albany, at the inaugural Eastern United States Hemp Growers Conference and Expo. The first-ever professional conference dedicated exclusively to industrial hemp, it attracted internationally renowned hemp industry experts along with key government officials and agronomic researchers from the Empire State.

Keeping Account 05.03.18

Keeping Account 05.03.18

Local Business Notes
By
Star Staff

Jimmy Choo, Too

A Jimmy Choo pop-up shop is taking over the space previously occupied by Gallery Valentine at 33 Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village. The designer shoe store will be open from Memorial Day weekend through mid-October.

E.H. Dental Group

The East Hampton Dental Group, of which David Mambrino and Ven Sampathkumar are lead dentists, has moved from the Circle in East Hampton Village to 300 Pantigo Place, Suite 114.

Recorded Deeds: 05.10.18

Recorded Deeds: 05.10.18

The prices below have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.
By
Star Staff

AMAGANSETT

Devon Colony II L.L.C. to Galaxy Group Investments, 58 Cross Highway East and lot 1-012, 5.18 acres (vacant), March 15, $3,000,000.

 

BRIDGEHAMPTON

P. Gennell to 2theShore L.L.C., 1246 Sagg Road, 1.46 acres, Oct. 30, $1,360,000.

North Barn Scuttle to C. DeCristofaro, 2098 Scuttlehole Road, 1.86 acres, March 9, $1,150,000.

C. Morley to J. McLoughlin, 11 Ludlow Green, .58 acre, April 2, $1,585,000.

 

EAST HAMPTON

B. Karp and S. Goldstone to T. Meshberg, 4 Old Hollow Lane, Feb. 15, $1,775,000.

East End Realty Development to 7 Sally’s Path L.L.C., 11 Timber Lane, 1.41 acres, Feb. 28, $995,000.

K. Flanigan to K. O’Connor, 55 Montauk Avenue, .54 acre, March 1, $1,045,500.

C. and A. Sullivan (by referee) to DNT Properties L.L.C., 35 Oak Hill Lane, 3.44 acres, March 1, $1,097,998.

C. Van Domelen to P. Lafferty and J. Salamon, 26 Oyster Shores Road, .6 acre, March 7, $1,825,000.

G. Taradash to W. and N. Taub, 8 Beechwood Court, 1.97 acres, March 26, $1,408,000.

H. Kieu and T. Nguyen to Keystone Realty NYC, 151 Three Mile Harbor Road, 1.27 acres, March 26, $895,000.

J. and S. Berger to D. Newton, 6 Stirrup Court, .76 acre, March 29, $1,290,000.

 

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

L. Adams to 19 Ruxton Road L.L.C., 33 Ruxton Road, 2.3 acres, March 8, $8,250,000.

71 Toilsome Lane L.L.C. to I. and N. Caronna, 71 Toilsome Lane, .6 acre, March 9, $4,500,000.

 

MONTAUK

H. Brodsky Trust to C. and P. Berrezueta, 90 Laurel Drive, .92 acre, March 1, $1,025,000.

 

SAG HARBOR

K. Gale to L. Maki, 29 Eastville Avenue,, .14 acre, March 2, $798,250.

W. and L. Hardie to B. Fish, 119 Bay Street, .17 acre, April 3, $2,975,000.

 

SAGAPONACK

I. and D. Simon to Aritara L.L.C., 116 Farm Court, 1 acre, March 7, $5,250,000.

 

SPRINGS

Giarrantano and Choi to P. Brennan and L. O’Rourke, 32 12th Street, .37 acre, Feb. 16, $890,000.

A. Zeidman to M. and N. Tiberia, 35 Gardiner’s Lane, .14 acre, March 9, $787,000.

 

WATER MILL

E. Mittman to B. Masri and A. Saliby, 1477 Deerfield Road, 4.56 acres, March 9, $2,925,000.

S. Sharf to C. and L. Teixeira, 10 Deer Run, .99 acre, March 12, $4,641,200.

M. Doyle (by executor) to Byrd Hoffman Property, 47 Water Mill Towd Road, 2.12 acres (vacant), March 12, $1,400,000.

K. and R. Lichtman to 68 Summerfield Lane L.L.C., 68 Summerfield Lane, .93 acre, March 26, $3,750,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton

Gurney’s Owners Buy Montauk Yacht Club

Gurney’s Owners Buy Montauk Yacht Club

The Montauk Yacht Club is the most recent addition to the growing Gurney's properties. Guests at the Montauk oceanfront resort will be able to take hourly shuttles between locations.
The Montauk Yacht Club is the most recent addition to the growing Gurney's properties. Guests at the Montauk oceanfront resort will be able to take hourly shuttles between locations.
By
Jane Bimson

The owners of Gurney’s Montauk Resort and Seawater Spa have purchased the Montauk Yacht Club Resort and Marina and plan to spend approximately $13 million to upgrade the property, which they will rename Gurney’s Montauk Yacht Club and Resort. The amount of the sale was not disclosed.

In a press release issued on May 7, George Filopolous, the founder of Metrovest Equities and the president and co-owner of Gurney’s, said that he was looking forward to elevating the accommodations at the yacht club.

Since 2007, the yacht club — which features 107 guest rooms, meeting rooms, a ballroom, three restaurants, and 35 acres of marina and grounds — had been owned by an affiliate of Island Capital Group L.L.C., a real estate investment firm led by Andrew Farkas. “We have had the privilege of being associated with the Montauk Yacht Club for 11 years,” said Mr. Farkas, in a statement announcing the sale.

Mr. Filopolous and his business partner, Lloyd Goldman of BLDG Management, purchased Gurney’s in 2013. In 2015, they bought a neighboring property, the Panoramic View Resort, and transformed it into the Gurney’s Residences, a condominium development. They also opened a Gurney’s resort in Newport, R.I., last year. The duo plan to oversee the transition of the yacht club, which will close this winter to undergo propertywide renovations and reopen in time for the 2019 season.

Immediate upgrades planned for the resort include handing over the food and beverage service to LDV Hospitality, the firm that owns the Scarpetta restaurants and other high-end eateries. A Scarpetta outpost is also located at Gurney’s Resort on Old Montauk Highway.

The Commercial Observer reported on Thursday that the purchase was made possible by a $56 million loan from Acore Capital.