Update, July 15, 2:30 p.m.: The Black Lives Matter demonstration in East Hampton Village will take place at Herrick Park on Newtown Lane, according to Police Chief Gerard Larsen, who met with an organizer on Friday morning. Participants will meet at noon, and at some point march over to Village Hall on Main Street, and then return to Herrick Park. The protest demonstration will last about three hours. 

Originally, July 14, 6:39 p.m.: Two protest demonstrations are planned for the South Fork on Sunday in connection with the recent shooting deaths of black men at the hands of law enforcement elsewhere in the country. A Black Lives Matter rally is scheduled in East Hampton Village at noon. A community march and vigil in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and in memory of the two men who were killed earlier this month will take place in Bridgehampton, starting at 4:30 p.m.

"A lot of people kept calling and telling me we need to do this in East Hampton," said Vanessa Vascez-Corleone, who organized a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Riverhead and Riverside last week. She had planned to hold one in Hampton Bays this weekend, but after hearing from residents here, including an East Hampton attorney, she switched locations.

Between 100 and 200 people are expected in the village Sunday, she said. Participants will meet by Stop and Shop on Newtown Lane at noon and walk to Main Street, she said. The event should last about four hours.

Village Police Chief Gerard Larsen said Thursday afternoon that particulars were still unclear, but that he has sent another of the organizers an application for a permit and is meeting with her on Friday morning to go over details.

"She's going to show me what she wants to do. Then we'll make it all happen, as long as it's within reason. "I don't anticipate any problems," he said, noting that the protest in Riverhead had gone smoothly.

The chief anticipates that the last-minute permit won't be a problem, as it requires only the signature of Rebecca Molinaro, the village administrator. He has arranged for extra police officers to be on duty. 

His job is to make sure everyone is safe, both participants and onlookers, he said. "I understand the issues that are going on in the country. I certainly believe people have the right to express their First Amendment right."

The Black Lives Matter movement campaigns against violence toward the black community. Recent events have prompted more rallies. Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old from Louisiana, was shot on July 5 by two officers as he lay on the ground, video showed, and Philando Castile, a 32-year-old, was shot during a traffic stop in Minnesota. The immediate aftermath of Mr. Castile's shooting played out on a Facebook video posted by his girlfriend.

Days later, during a rally in Dallas, a black veteran of Afghanistan shot and killed five white police officers. Nine others were wounded.

Holding multiple rallies, Ms. Vascez-Corleone said, was important to the movement. "We don't want to let the issue die down," she said. "We're looking for the chain effect. . . There's a lot of communities wanting to stand up. You can already see a chain effect happening."

After making plans for the demonstration in East Hampton, she learned of the march and vigil in Bridgehampton, which will begin at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork, 977 Sag Harbor Turnpike, at 4:30 p.m. The event's Facebook page encourages participants to bring signs. They will march up the turnpike to the Hampton Library on Main Street, where they will gather. Clergy will speak and poems will be read. Those who wish to attend but cannot make the march can meet the group at the library at 5:30.

The Bridgehampton gathering was born out of a movement already afoot. Canio's Cultural Cafe, an education nonprofit associated with Canio's Books in Sag Harbor, along with representatives from Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor and the Unitarian Universalist congregation, have been working together on community dialogues focusing on certain books, according to Maryann Calendrille, who owns Canio's with Kathryn Szoka. The group calls itself Racial Justice East End. On Sunday, at 3 p.m., members will meet at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation for the second of four discussions on "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," by Michelle Alexander.

"Some folks thought it would be a good follow-on from the discussion, to get up and take a walk," Ms. Calendrille said. 

Good fences make good neighbors, right? It may turn out that Shahab Karmely and Kenneth Kuchin will prove the proverb correct and solve their longstanding dispute about a tennis court on Mr. Karmely’s property because at the end of a testy meeting of the East Hampton Village Board of Appeals on Friday, Mr. Karmely agreed to build and pay for a fence that will include soundproofing.

 The issue and the neighbors’ dispute goes back to 2014 when the board granted approval for the court with specific conditions. It had been before the board again in May, when Mr. Kuchin said the noise from the court was “terrible.” The hearing continued on Friday.

Mr. Kuchin, whose property is at 121 Main Street, alleged that Mr. Karmely had not followed the conditions the Z.B.A. had called for, and Mr. Karmely, who owns the historic Gardiner property at 127 Main Street, called his neighbor a liar. Both properties are listed for sale, Mr. Karmely’s for $26 million and Mr. Kuchin’s for $11.95 million.

When Mr. Karmely received setback variances in 2014 for the court, the conditions were that he sink the court four feet below grade, install a Har-Tru surface, which is quieter than a hard surface, and buffer it with mature landscaping.

When the work was done and the Building Department inspected it, however, the landscaping was found not to be in accordance with the approval. Inspectors also discovered that Mr. Karmely had added a viewing area that was not in the plan.

On Friday, the board told Mr. Karmely, Andy Hammer, his attorney, and Doug Degroot of Hamptons Tennis Company, which built the court, that the conditions had not been honored. The court, Frank Newbold, the chairman, said, is not four feet below grade but closer to two feet, with the excavated soil used to create an approximately two-foot-high berm around its perimeter.

 Armed with aerial photographs, he presented one from 2014 that showed the grade prior to the construction of the court as “absolutely flat, and the topography the same as the neighbor’s on either side,” he said. “But an aerial photograph from the following year “shows the rear of the property being resculpted to obviously raise the berm there,” Mr. Newbold said.

Mr. Hammer protested, arguing that the court was indeed four feet below grade. No, Mr. Newbold said, it is four feet below the berm. “We were trying,” Lys Marigold, the vice chairwoman, said, “to be very careful to muffle any sound disturbance for the neighbors. This particular way of making the tennis court didn’t help at all.”

 Mr. Karmely did not agree, and gave a detailed explanation of why the topography was different. “The reason part of it is raised and part of it is flat is because . . . we took the point that was high, which is the tree roots of where the existing Leyland cypress are . . . and we dropped down four feet. . . . When you drop down and level, you take your high point, because if you go below that you expose the root trees. As to the point of did we raise it to one side, that’s part of leveling of the property.”

Mr. Karmely said the work cost twice what Mr. Degroot had estimated in an effort to comply with the board’s conditions and minimize noise, which, he added, pales in comparison to that emanating from the nearby playing fields of the John Marshall Elementary School.

 “Mr. Kuchin has an unhealthy obsession with this tennis court. We have nothing to gain by having tried to pull a fast one. We went through extraordinary design, engineering, and money spent to come up with something which I believe is visually stunning and in conformance with our approval,” he said. He repeated his assertion that the controversy is not about noise, rather “a neighbor who just cannot let go of this issue.”

“My understanding of the tennis court was that it was going to be closer to the pool,” Mr. Kuchin said. “We shook on that.” He had barely started commenting when he was interrupted. “We did not. You’re a liar,’ Mr. Karmely said.

Mr. Kuchin disputed the methodology used to grade land and insisted the court had been constructed without regard for the board’s intention. “I find that very difficult to understand.”

“Given where we are today,” Mr. Newbold asked him, “do you have any suggestions?” An eight-foot-high fence was the answer, “and I really don’t think I should be responsible for installing a soundproof fence. I would like Mr. Karmely, or whoever is responsible for creating this condition, to rectify it and somehow ensure that this fencing could possibly be constructed.”

Mr. Karmely said he would be happy to install and pay for such a fence along the length of the court. This did not quite prove the proverb. The board wanted to see a visual depiction of the fence beforehand. “I think it would be a good compromise to accommodate everyone’s concerns,” Mr. Newbold said. “We look forward to your sketch.” The hearing was left open.

The board also announced two decisions at the meeting. Brent and Rini Greenfield were granted variances to allow alterations to an accessory building that has a pre-existing nonconforming setback of 24.3 feet at 4 Jericho Close, where the code requires a 34-feet. The building contains a garage, pool house, and storage rooms, and the variances were given on the condition that alterations comply with the plans submitted, including the installation of vegetative screening on one side, and that the storage rooms be used only for that purpose. The building is not to be heated, and the code enforcement officer is to inspect the building annually.

The board also granted Peter and Lindsay Newman of 27 Montauk Highway variances to construct a window well, air-conditioning condenser, and two second-floor dormers inside required setbacks.

Soldier Ride will once again make its way across the South Fork on Saturday, bringing together military veterans who have suffered injuries during their service, community members, and others for a show of support and a fund-raiser for the Wounded Warrior Project.

“The need is still tremendous. Still, every day, 22 veterans commit suicide,” Nick Kraus, one of Soldier Ride’s co-founders, said Friday. “The awareness level of the invisible injuries like post-traumatic stress disorder is just starting to be addressed. The impact of multiple deployments for these men and women has really left a big need to address as they return to regular civilian life.”

This year, participants can once again opt for a 60-mile bicycle ride, a 30-mile ride, or a 5-kilometer walk. The route is the same as it has been in the past few years. The day kicks off at Amagansett Farm on Montauk Highway east of the train station. Riders will travel through East Hampton Village, up through Sag Harbor onto North Haven, back down through East Hampton, and to Montauk. The full 60-mile ride extends to Montauk Point.

Registration begins at 7 a.m. Saturday. The opening ceremony will be at 8:30 a.m., the ride begins at 9, and the walk starts at 9:15. A “lap of heroes” is scheduled in Sag Harbor at 11 a.m. and a picnic is set for noon at the farm. More information on this year’s Soldier Ride, including registration fees, can be found online at soldierride.org/thehamptons.

The documentary “Welcome to Soldier Ride” will be screened ahead of Saturday’s event. The film, which the founders began in 2004 when they first launched Soldier Ride here on the South Fork, chronicles their work and the purpose of the ride. The screening will be tomorrow in Amagansett Square at 8 p.m.

Soldier Ride has raised more than $10 million for the Wounded Warrior Project since its inception. Last year’s ride drew more than 600 community members.

“It’s more than just riding a bike, although that’s an accomplishment. . . . It makes a difference,” Mr. Kraus said. “It doesn’t get old for me to watch the impact that it makes.”

Known now as Jazz for Jennings rather than Jazz at Jennings, the brunch-and-music fund-raiser for the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center will return on Sunday for its second year.

Starting at 12:30 p.m. at the Watermill Center, the event will bring together one of the top names in jazz music, Jon Faddis, the bandleader and trumpeter, and Randy Brecker, the Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, along with Ada Rovatti on tenor saxophone, Cyrus Chestnut on piano, Carl Allen on drums, Dan Rose on guitar, and Kiyoshi Kitagawa on bass.

The fund-raiser used to be held at the Bridgehampton house of the news anchor Peter Jennings and his wife, Kayce Freed Jennings, until his death in 2005. Mr. Jennings was a longtime supporter of the child care center. The fund-raiser was brought back last year, the 10th anniversary of his death, when it was realized the center lacked a major benefit to support its programs and services.

“They’re doing wonderful things that need so much more support in order to do more of it,” Ms. Jennings said by phone last week. “It’s an essential place in our community. Since Jazz at Jennings ended, there hasn’t been a vehicle for raising the essential funds. We thought it was very important to bring the attention again.”

Bonnie Michelle Cannon, the center’s executive director, said two-thirds of its operating budget comes from fund-raising and donations, with the remainder coming from grants and other sources. It serves 36 children in its day care program and 80 children in its summer camp program, for which there is usually a waiting list. Ms. Cannon said she hopes to expand tutoring, art, and music programs, along with college preparation workshops for older students.

“The trend I’ve seen in the community is basically that people are in need of assistance, especially our kids,” she said. “There is definitely the need for extra help from the educational standpoint. . . . We’re also finding more people in need of our food pantry.”

Tickets to Jazz for Jennings start at $500, and sponsorships start at $10,000. They can be purchased online at bccrc.org.

Food Pantry Farm on Long Lane in East Hampton launched its Working Families community-supported agriculture program this week.

Under the pilot program, 25 local families and individuals got the opportunity to join a C.S.A. program — through which members receive a weekly share of things grown at a farm — at an affordable rate.

The farm, established on five acres at the East End Community Organic  Farm to grow produce for distribution to food pantries and other charitable organizations, raised money to establish the low-cost pilot program.

Members pay $150 for a share of the farm produce for 12 weeks, until Sept. 12. It will include at least four types of vegetables, plus flowers and herbs and, occasionally, other food items sold at the organization’s farmstand.

The program is a way to provide access to nutritious, seasonal local food to working people whose budgets and work hours preclude access to the produce at local farm markets, removing the barriers to better nutrition and wellness for all members of the community. Shares at C.S.A. programs of similar length at other local farms can cost up to $750.

The idea grew after a story appeared in The Star last summer outlining concerns about proper nutrition over the vacation break for children whose families relied on a school lunch program, said Ira Bezoza, a Food Pantry Farm board member.

To get the program going, Food Pantry Farm worked with Goodcircle, an East Hampton organization that connects nonprofits with businesses and individuals in order to fund community projects.

The effort yielded a total of $28,300, with a boost from Men at Work Construction of Wainscott, which matched every dollar raised.

The money will cover planting and harvesting costs, the cost of a seasonal employee, and other administrative efforts for this year, including the preparation of educational materials, recipes, menus, and more to be distributed along with the food. Food Pantry Farm hopes the program can continue and become self-sustaining.

The first weekly produce baskets distributed on Monday contained cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, kale, carrots, peas, and basil. Members also went home with some potted flowers, and a copy of the “Delicious Nutritious FoodBook” prepared by Edible School Gardens.

Sarah Margaret Donohue and Patrick Joseph Cumiskey of White Plains, N.Y., were married on May 27 at the Hilton Westchester in Rye Brook, N.Y. Their friend Bridget Mahoney officiated.

The bride is the daughter of Deborah and Robert Donohue of East Hampton. Mr. Cumiskey is the son of Patrick Cumiskey Sr. of Ossining, N.Y., and the late Mary Cumiskey.

The couple met while teaching in the South Bronx. She is now an English teacher at Brooklyn Technical High School. He is a special education teacher at Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School.

The bride earned her bachelor’s degree in English from the State University at Albany and a master’s in teaching from the Teachers College at Columbia University. Mr. Cumiskey graduated from Mercy College and was a New York City teaching fellow at the City College of New York.

Lindsy Talmage-Mund of Hampton Bays, a friend of the bride’s since kindergarten, was the matron of honor, and Scott Galessi of Riverdale in the Bronx, the groom’s friend since elementary school, was the best man.

The bride wore an off-white strapless lace gown and carried a bouquet of yellow roses with white hydrangeas and freesia. Her attendants wore navy.

For their honeymoon, the Cumiskeys, both baseball fans, will visit ballparks across the country.

Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor Village, the oldest synagogue on Long Island, is marking its 120th anniversary this year. Members, guests, and dignitaries will gather for a celebratory dinner on Sunday at Osteria Salina in Wainscott. Rabbi Daniel Geffen will serve as master of ceremonies, and speakers will include Neal Fagin, president of the congregation, and Ronald Lauder, a Wainscott resident who is chairman emeritus of the Estee Lauder cosmetics company and a member of Adas Israel. The celebration will continue this summer with various events, including a scholar-in-residence weekend in August.

 Perched on top of a hill at the corner of Elizabeth Street and Atlantic Avenue, the synagogue was built by Orthodox immigrants, employees of the Fahys watchcase factory. Now affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism, the congregation has grown to 250 memberships (which include both families and individuals) and more than 300 members, nearly double the number in 1996, the building’s centennial year.

Mr. Fagin said the growth had been highly gratifying. “Now we’re a year-round congregation, with events going on all the time” and many members helping in leadership posts, running committees, and taking part in community outreach.

Adas Israel began in the early 1880s when Joseph Fahys moved his watchcase factory from New Jersey to Sag Harbor, creating jobs in the struggling village where whaling once reigned. He relied on Russian, Polish, and Hungarian Jews, many of them watchmakers in the old county, for employees. With roots in the United Jewish Brethren, the congregation formed in 1883.

Its cemetery on Route 114, between Sag Harbor and East Hampton, was created even before the synagogue was built, when a child died and there was no Jewish cemetery east of Lindenhurst. In 1896, a man named Nissan Meyerson bought the property for $350 and a temple, designed as a mix of Colonial church and European synagogue, was built, at a cost of $2,500. Its first service was held to mark the new year, Rosh Hashanah, in 1898, but a formal dedication ceremony would not take place for two more years.

The old synagogue held 100 people in the main sanctuary. Since the congregation was originally Orthodox, women were not allowed to worship alongside the men, and a ladies’ gallery for 60, with a separate entrance, was built. A mikvah, used by Orthodox Jewish women for ritual cleanliness, could be found in the basement. About 50 families were members.

As the story goes, Temple Mishcan Israel, the current temple’s predecessor, was given its first Torah by Theodore Roosevelt, who acquired it in 1898 after returning from the Spanish-American War to Montauk, where some of his 1,200 Rough Riders were recovering from yellow fever and other illnesses. Jewish soldiers had a Torah with them, and it is said that when the troops left the future president donated it to the nearest synagogue, in Sag Harbor.

The temple survived several difficult periods, including an economic decline in Sag Harbor in the 1920s and the 1924 Immigration Restriction Act, which put a quota on Jewish immigration to the U.S. The following year, fire devastated part of the watchcase factory and hundreds lost their jobs. Without much money, the building deteriorated. The mikvah was boarded up in the 1940s and all but forgotten, until it was accidentally discovered in 1977.

The temple became affiliated with Conservative Judaism in 1948. It took on a new name, Temple Adas Israel, and gained a following with young professionals, artists, and writers living on the South Fork. It soon expanded onto an adjacent lot, purchased in 1956 for $1,500, where a social hall was built to allow for a larger sanctuary for the High Holy Days. The congregation was mainly made up of part-time and summer residents during those years. In the late ’70s, during a period of growth, the temple was renovated, its stained glass windows were replaced, and the mikvah was discovered.

The temple is again looking to the future. Plans are underway for a renovation, Mr. Fagin said, that will allow for more space to accommodate children enrolled in the Hebrew school and membership get-togethers. The hope is that construction will begin a year from the coming holiday season. The funding has yet to be secured, as well as approvals from the village.

An election will be held on Tuesday in Sag Harbor Village with Robby Stein and James L. Larocca running unopposed for the village board. While there is no competition for their seats, there is a lot at stake for the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps, which is looking to increase its pension-like incentive program.

“It’s a recruitment and retention tool we can use,” said Eddie Downes, a former president of the ambulance corps who helped fight for the increase to the length of service award. While one already exists for the corps, it is not on par with what is available to the Sag Harbor Fire Department membership. “We can hang on to people. They have a bigger incentive to stay and to volunteer,” he said.

A length of service award program, known as LOSAP, works like a pension, in which volunteers receive a financial incentive based on the number of years they have served. It is a state-approved benefit administered by the state comptroller’s office for volunteers once they hit retirement age. In Sag Harbor, when  volunteers turn 65 and retire from volunteering, they are awarded a cash settlement for each year of service in which they have met a minimum standard of answering calls, attending meetings and drills, and so on.

The ambulance corps’s program does not provide the same benefits that are offered to members of the Fire Department, a separate agency. The existing plan is a defined contribution plan, while the proposal is a defined benefit plan. The change may seem subtle, but the difference is not.

Under the proposal, volunteers would receive at the age of 65 an amount equal to $20 per month for each year of service credit earned under the point system, according to Beth Kamper, the village clerk-administrator. A participant who earns five years of service credit will be paid $100 per month for the rest of their lives beginning at age 65.

Under the current program, a participating volunteer receives a $700 contribution into an I.R.A.-type account that is adjusted annually for investment income gained or lost, as well as administration fees, Ms. Kamper said.

The plan does not come without a cost to taxpayers, both inside and outside the village, as the village’s ambulance corps and Fire Department provide service to those living beyond the village boundaries. The village board budgeted $12,000 for the existing plan in 2016-17. Estimates show the new plan would cost $105,000 for 2017, which includes a $3,500 administration fee. If approved, the new program would go into effect on Jan. 1.

Also included in that amount is an unfunded liability of $44,000 because the proposal is retroactive to when the first LOSAP program was begun, in 1997. Those who are still going out on calls and were active before that time are eligible to receive up to five years of credit for service earned during the years immediately preceding 1997. The total unfunded liability of $205,000 would be spread out over a five-year period through 2021.

Stacy McGowin, the president of the ambulance corps, said that the proposal, which had the membership’s support, is what’s best for them and will ensure they are treated fairly. “So please, if you are a village resident, go out and vote for our ambulance volunteers,” she said.

Mr. Larocca’s and Mr. Stein’s names will also be on the ballot. This is Mr. Larocca’s first village election, having been appointed to fill a vacancy last year. Mr. Stein, a clinical child psychologist with a practice in the village, is seeking his third full term on the board.

Mr. Larocca, a lawyer, served as Gov. Hugh Carey’s deputy secretary of federal affairs in Washington, D.C., and under Gov. Mario Cuomo he was commissioner of transportation. He ran for the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor in 1998, before becoming a dean at Southampton College. Retired, he has said he dabbles in playwriting.

The vote will be held at the Sag Harbor Firehouse on Brick Kiln Road from noon to 9 p.m.

East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. issued pointed comments on the easy availability of assault rifles at the village board’s meeting on Friday, following a moment of silence held in memory of the 49 people killed in the June 12 mass shooting in Orlando, Fla.

“Until both sides of the political aisle in Washington D.C. — the Republicans and the Democrats — get together and come up with some meaningful gun legislation that deals specifically with assault-type weapons and multi-clip capability, this unfortunately is going to continue,” said the mayor, a former police officer.

When the oft-debated Second Amendment to the United States ­Constitution was crafted, he said, “there was talk about a militia. We’re way beyond­ that now, ladies and gentlemen, and I think we have a moral obligation, as citizens of the nation, to somehow be involved.”

It was not the first time the mayor had given voice to his frustration over gun violence. Almost exactly one year earlier, he had asked for another moment of silence at the start of a village board meeting to remember the nine people murdered in an African-American church in Charleston, S.C. “I don’t know when America is going to wise up,” he said at the time. Automatic weapons, he told The Star after that meeting, “don’t belong in the hands of John Q. Citizen.”

Mr. Rickenbach is a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a coalition founded by former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.

“I don’t know what it’s going to take for the people in Washington,” he said on Friday in a tone that suggested both anger and despair. “We’re headed into an even darker abyss, in my estimation.”

Since arriving in East Hampton from Ecuador, Jenny has moved upwards of a dozen times in seven years in search of a safe, affordable place to live with her school-aged child.

Her last room was in a four-bedroom house on Three Mile Harbor Road, for which she paid $800 a month. Since the house lacked heat and with winter approaching, she needed a more stable year-round option.

Jenny found a vacancy at the Inn at East Hampton, where she pays $1,300 a month to rent an unfurnished room. Located on Pantigo Road in East Hampton, the two-story, yellow and white building was formerly the 27 Inn and, before that, the Dutch Motel.

The motel serves as a semi-permanent home for local workers, many with young children, who are unable to find an apartment or a bedroom that they can afford in a shared house. With demand for affordable places to live far outpacing supply, the Inn at East Hampton is in many ways the current face of affordable housing — providing in some cases the best option among a range of unsatisfactory choices.

The South Fork is a land of economic extremes. In late January, Scott Bommer, the founder of SAB Capital Management, a hedge fund, sold three adjoining Lily Pond Lane properties in East Hampton for $110 million. According to Compass’s Ed Petrie, who brokered the deal, it was the second largest sale in New York State history.

Meanwhile, just a few miles away, working families — many of whom service such lavish estates as housekeepers, landscapers, or nannies — are unable to find affordable housing and live paycheck to paycheck.

Jenny awakens early each morning and walks for 90 minutes, no matter the weather, to her job in East Hampton. She works 40 hours each week and gets paid $13 an hour. Her monthly salary goes quickly. On days off, she cleans houses to make extra money.

At the Inn at East Hampton, “all the rooms are full,” Jenny said with the help of a translator. Apart from two Jamaican families, she said that everyone currently living there is Latino. Undocumented and without a driver’s license, Jenny, a single mother, who asked to be identified by a pseudonym, feels particularly vulnerable.

According to current and former Inn at East Hampton residents, most of the rooms lack cooking facilities. Jenny and several of her neighbors have purchased electric hot plates and rice cookers to prepare basic meals. She washes her dishes in either the bathroom sink or the bathtub. Her room came with cable but no television, and she purchased a small refrigerator. She pays $45 a month for utilities.

Her child walks to the bus stop a few steps from the motel’s front entrance. On a recent Monday morning, 10 children boarded two school buses, the first headed to East Hampton Middle School and East Hampton High School and a later one bound for the John M. Marshall Elementary School.

Come evening, the motel’s parking lot quickly fills up, a combination of sedans, minivans, and trucks, with some residents gathering on the second-floor balcony to talk.

But for Jenny, at least, the situation is far from ideal. Concerned about security, she travels each day with her valuables tucked into a backpack, leaving nothing behind in the motel room.

Richard Burns, superintendent of the East Hampton Union Free School District, lamented the lack of affordable housing here. “Since the children reside in the East Hampton school district, we want to do the best we can do when they come to our buildings,” Mr. Burns said. Some families had previously rented Montauk motel rooms during the off season, he said, a practice that Jack Perna, superintendent of the Montauk School, said that the town had since stopped.

Unlike an overcrowded house, that may be illegally partitioned into more rooms than originally zoned for, motels receives annual safety inspections, with a septic system theoretically up to the task of servicing multiple units.

Last summer, the Inn at East Hampton rented its rooms to a group of Jamaican students working seasonal jobs. In late February, its manager, Jason Gutterman, said that because of serious damage to several rooms, he and Alex Demetriades, the motel’s owner, decided to explore other revenue streams, and started renting out the rooms on a monthly basis to year-round occupants. (Through Mr. Gutterman, Mr. Demetriades declined to comment for this story.)

Motels and hotels like the Inn at East Hampton are permitted to have both short-term and long-term renters, said Ann Glennon, East Hampton Town’s principal building inspector.

The Inn at East Hampton is a commercial property. As such, when East Hampton Town’s Office of Ordinance Enforcement receives a complaint, the fire marshal’s office, which inspects all commercial buildings once a year, follows up. Last July, according to an Ordinance Enforcement representative, the office received just one complaint related to the Inn at East Hampton. An Ordinance Enforcement representative said the caller complained of overcrowded conditions and claimed that residents were being taken advantage of.

David Browne, the chief fire marshal, confirmed that the Inn at East Hampton had been inspected in the past year, though he declined to specify an exact date. “We do inspections on all hotels and motels in town. It’s an ongoing, open case because we’re always inspecting them,” Mr. Browne said. Things like hot plates would be of particular interest, he said.

Starting last December, Mr. Gutterman began posting pictures of the unfurnished rooms on Bonac Rentals, a closed Facebook group with nearly 4,700 members. He often describes them as one-room studio apartments, with free hot water, cable television, and garbage removal. Tenants pay their own utilities, with each room equipped with individual utility gauges. A Spanish translation frequently accompanies each listing.

News of the vacant motel rooms spread quickly, and the 21 rooms were scooped up within days, with occupants paying between $1,300 to $1,500 a month, Mr. Gutterman said in the winter.

For the time being, Jenny plans on staying put, mostly for the lack of a better option. “But if something else pops up, I’m leaving,” she said.