Two years ago this month, I bought my wife a physical subscription to The New York Times, the kind w...
Author: Dan Rattiner
Everybody knows the drill. When you go to buy a fancy house in Palm Beach it will have a swimming po...
The loudest noise I ever heard in the sky happened whenever a Concorde decelerated through the sound...
Last week, citizens in the Village of Southampton crowded into a large hall to demand that the mayor...
The worst thing that could happen when I play basketball on the asphalt in front of our garage is th...
Over the years, many movies have been filmed in the Hamptons. In recent years, they’ve presented t...
The Palm Beach Town Council considered on January 18 two proposals that, if passed, would limit havi...
On Tuesday morning that April, my wife and I were just barely on speaking terms. Over the weekend, w...
Just about everybody wants better cell service near their homes. But nobody wants the tower that del...
If East Hampton Town decides to close down the East Hampton Airport later this winter, it will leave...
A month after Ralph George retired, I called him up and invited him to have coffee with me at John P...
The winter solstice came on December 21, and the sun set at its earliest time of the year. Normally ...
Here’s my once-a-year report on New York’s pathetic professional sports teams. In football, both...
On November 8, annual rankings of the richest zip codes in the United States were announced. And the...
This is the season when presents arrive. They arrive as packages in the mail, tied with a bow. They ...
I’ve met Ian exactly twice, both times briefly. Yet it is fair to say that each time, he profoundl...
After the United States achieved independence, President George Washington thought to build a lighth...
The Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike has a history that is more interesting than any other road in ...
In a stunning development about noise at the East Hampton Airport, a wealthy homeowner in Wainscott ...
In October 1919, after much protesting by leaders of the temperance movement — mostly women who co...