My Marcellino NY workshop in Setauket sat directly across from the Brewster House, c. 1665 — the oldest building in Brookhaven and a Culper Spy Ring landmark. What that place meant, and why I’m going back.
Before the Hamptons, the North Shore’s Gold Coast estates hired Black jazz musicians to play for white money — and left almost no record behind. Here’s what we know.
The Vanderbilts and Kahns get the brass plaques. The brick and stone of Oheka Castle and Long Island’s Gold Coast estates were laid by immigrant workers whose names nobody recorded.
Long before the Hamptons became synonymous with East Coast wealth, before the word ‘estate’ conjured…
Sixty miles east of where the island narrows and the Hamptons begin their slow surrender…
Stony Brook Village looks like colonial history. It’s not. It’s a 1940s retail concept built by a shoe magnate who reshaped a working-class town to fit his vision of what a village should look like.