Perelman's Neighbors Complain
Two live bands playing at a Saturday party in honor of the 80th birthday of Raymond Perelman of Philadelphia, the father of the cosmetics magnate and owner of the Creeks on Georgica Pond in East Hampton, caused neighbors to complain of loud music to village police.
It also led police to issue not one but two summonses to the host, Ronald O. Perelman, for allegedly violating the Village Code's restrictions on noise.
The first summons was issued at 12:37 a.m. Sunday, an hour and a half after the code prohibits music and other sounds that affect involuntary listeners between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. The summons was handed to a security guard at the gate to Mr. Perelman's estate, since police were not allowed on the property, according to Police Chief Glen Stonemetz.
Warning
When the first summons did not have the desired effect and complaints continued, the second summons was issued. Again, the chief said, security guards would not allow Police Department officers beyond the gate. The second time around, Chief Stonemetz added, police warned the multi-billionaire's em ployees that if they had to return a third time they "without question [were] going to speak to the person responsible for the party and there could be an arrest."
Then the music stopped.
Chief Stonemetz said the wind blew the music into earshot of such Wainscott residents as Anita Wien of Wainscott Stone Road, who made the first complaint at 3:15 Saturday afternoon, though police found the objection at that early hour unfounded.
Unhappy Neighbors
Three more complaints from Ms. Wien, one from B.H. Friedman of Georgica Close Road in East Hampton, a fifth from Alfred Ross of Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton, and a sixth from Peter Wolf of Briar Patch Road, East Hampton, followed, beginning at 11:12 p.m.
Some 300 persons had been invited to the party, including a big contingent from Philadelpia and a number of East Hamptoners. And, while several photographers were reported to be at the party, no celebrity pictures have appeared in the press so far.
Several other noise related complaints were logged with village police Saturday night and early Sunday morning, including one from Hilton Rosen of Ruxton Road, another from Robert Marcus of Cottage Avenue, and yet another from Tally Jerome in the area of the Village Townhouses on Toilsome Lane.
Loud Library
Two David's Lane residents, Lisa Dortch and Mark Zimmerman, found the music from the East Hampton Library centennial gala too much, but in all these cases police either said the reports were baseless or spoke to those responsible who assured them the volume would be turned down.
A noise-related Village Code summons was issued at 6:21 a.m. Saturday to Volk's Montauk disposal, for allegedly picking up trash at the yet-to-open Peconic Coast restaurant on Montauk Highway before 7 a.m. Again in this case, a neighbor, Ann Colonomos of Cove Hollow Road, complained.