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Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund Collects $24+M In First 5 Months Of 2011

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 While much of the country is in a deep real estate recession, the Eastern End of Long Island has seen an uptick in gross sales which in turn affects the 2% Peconic Land Tax as well as other transfer taxes. This...

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Team Work

Peconic Land Trust and Suffolk Country have once again collaborated together to preserve 6.6 acres in Southampton for $850,000. This parcel is part of a one hundred acre preservation in the Great Swamp and Noyac greenbelt between Bridgehampton ...

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Main Beach Ranked #4 Best Beach In America

Dr. Beach has announced the Top 10 Beaches in America and our very own Main Beach in East Hampton has ranked #4. In addition, this is the only Hamptons, or Long Island beach for that matter, making the list this year. For years Coopers Beach in...

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Home Sales on the Rise

The U.S. Commerce Department reported new U.S. single-family home sales rose 7.3% to a seasonally adjusted 323,000 unit annual rate. This was the second straight month of gains and the highest level since December! Economists had predict...

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EH Library Wins Lawsuit Against Village

After an 8 year battle to build a new Children’s Wing at the Library, the NY State Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Library and issued the special permit and 2 variances needed for the addition. The court found that the Village denial last...

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East Hampton Library Expansion

8 years later and a drawn-out legal battle with the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals, East Hampton Library will be growing. There obviously were two polarized viewpoints on this expansion with objections driven by traffic and par...

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Thank You Tim Bishop!

Thanks to Rep. Tim Bishop (D-Southampton) Montauk Inlet will be dredged in the fall and $1.15M in federal funds shall be contributed to the costs. As we all know fishing is THE industry in Montauk. The channel, which is supposed to be 12? de...

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Lis Pendens Filings Fall by 48%

New Lis Pendens filings dropped to lowest point in almost 5 years. There were 1,937 new Lis Pendens filings in the First Quarter of 2011. This number represents the lowest quarterly count since the second quarter of 2006, and a 48% drop f...

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Forbes Names Greenport as One of America’s Prettiest Towns

A year or so ago I blogged about Greenport – and the wonderful things happening there – and I am now in great company: John Giuffo of Forbes magazine selected Greenport as one of America’s prettiest towns in his “small world big mouth�...

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