A 77-year-old man was killed trying to cross a busy Long Island highway when he was struck by two cars coming from opposite directions in under a minute, according to police. Kenneth Cook was walking across a stretch of Montauk Highway in Lindenhurst just after 7:30 p.m. Monday when he was hit by two SUVs […]
The national real estate market may have slowed last year, but the ultra-luxury sector kept breaking records. The top ten priciest home sales in the U.S. in 2025 all surpassed $100 million — up from five in 2023 and seven in 2024. Minted, cash-rich buyers went all in on expanding their sprawling real estate portfolios — […]
More than 60 Long Island schools had drinking water with lead levels that blew past new state maximums, according to newly released data from the Department of Health. Over 40 Suffolk County school districts and more than 20 Nassau districts had test results from faucets or water fountains that showed lead levels exceeded 5 parts […]
If you follow Fireplace Road in Springs to its end at Gardiner’s Bay, you’ve reached Fireplace. Fires were built there centuries ago to signal across the water to the inhabitants of Gardiner’s Island, when people or goods were ready to be transported. The first fireplace stood at Old Fireplace Road (now Gerard Drive). The landing […]
Now leveled, the Molly’s Hill site is located in Springs where Fireplace Road and Gerard Drive meet; said to be named for Molly Pharaoh, Stephen Talkhouse’s mother, who lived from 1819 to 1879. Stephen Pharoah, commonly called Steve Talkhouse, was born in a wigwam on the side of a little hill where the old and […]
Barnes Hole is first mentioned in 1716 in the diary of a New London, CT resident who made frequent trips by boat to the east end of Long Island to visit relatives and do business. The Barnes name possibly came from Isaac Barnes, who was born in East Hampton in 1677. He was one […]