It is Monday evening. The Memorial Day weekend is over. The weather was grand. At noon traffic was streaming west past my house on Noyac Road at a rate of 961 vehicles per hour, presumably most of them were returning home to spots west of the South Fork. I took a ride around after 4 to parts east, mostly in East Hampton.

At least eight million tons of plastic end up in the marine environment each year, according to researchers. No part of the ocean is immune; contamination reaches even the deepest submarine trenches. 

The first of two electronic billboards along Sunrise Highway in Hampton Bays was made operational in time for Memorial Day weekend. Green-lighted by the Shinnecock Indian Nation, they were described in the tribal trustees’ news blitz as a source of much-needed economic development. They may turn out to be more of a miscalculation than an asset.

The heated debate about the social justice component of the Green New Deal will run up against the scientific arguments regarding climate change and raise serious questions about how and on what basis environmental policy is developed.

AMAGANSETT                  

A. Miller to WP Mako Lane L.L.C., 21 Mako Lane, .17 acre, March 20, $2,230,000.

A. Ciner to J. Kolber and K. Orozco, 121 Windmill Lane, .46 acre, April 11, $990,000.

D. Nelson (by executors) to 7 La Foret L.L.C., 7 La Foret Lane, 2.03 acres, April 15, $1,490,000.

 

BRIDGEHAMPTON

Almonds L.L.C. to Susan’s Illusion L.L.C., 1970 Montauk Highway, 1.09 acres, Jan. 24, $2,615,000.

 

EAST HAMPTON 

252 RMH Realty to R. and J. Halata, 31 Palma Terrace, .38 acre, Jan.

Summer Is Here

Amagansett

May 26, 2019

Dear David,

As the traffic thickened this past week it seemed like the normal rhythm of an East Hampton summer starting. However I sense something more pernicious in the air. The first hint was evident when I slowed down near Red Horse on Friday to let some poor soul make a left turn and suddenly I was barraged by a horn blaring from a car which went to my right to pass and came within inches of smashing into said poor soul. And they were mad? Shrugging, I looked at my wife and said “summer is here.”