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| Winter siting of Hamtpons house hunters! |
So this week’s weekend roundup is a day late. What can I say, I was busy chipping ice from my walks and salting my driveway. While we finally got out of single digits this past weekend and we qualified as a B-. “We’re still not seeing the kind of activity we should at this time of the year but it’s still better than what we’ve seen the past few weeks,” said one experienced agent.
now have everyone on the verge of getting spring fever. This in turn helped traffic this past weekend for Hamptons rental and sales. While most of the activity was rental focused, there was definitely more interest in sales this past weekend than we’ve seen over the past polar vortex infused months. Considering the lingering icy conditions and the snow this past weekend of agents and brokers I spoke to the first weekend
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| “They love the smell of low wafting bacon in the morning” |
If you’ve ever flown across country you know how pilots love to point out landmarks like the Grand Canyon or St. Louis Arch, well when it comes the Hamptons it seems like the pilots enjoy getting as close a look as possible! “Folks, look to your right and you can see Martha Stewart picking flowers.” Well this Thursday evening, could it be a last call for boarding at East Hampton Airport? Most definitely not but it does appear that things are going to be changing in some ways at HTO (FAA letters). It will all begin at 4:30pm when The East Hampton Town Board will be listening to comments from all interested parties. Proposed are regulations to set late night, early morning and weekend restrictions on noisy aircraft coming and going.
that crowd-sorcerers like Blade are offering bargain basement rates you can
expect the racket to increase even more unless the Town Board sets some limits.
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You can also watch the
proceeding live on LTV but if you do you’d better have plenty of popcorn. Helicopter
pilots plan to show up en-masse to plead their case and residents from all East
End towns are coming loaded for bear. Local government in action!
Meanwhile, do you want to hang with a Hamptons “A-lister?” Well here’s your chance. Charitybuzz.com is taking bids to see a performance of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” and then have a meet and greet with it’s star Alec Baldwin after the performance at Guild Hall in East Hampton. You can get the details by clicking here because as you know with all these things there is always the fine print. I have to say, I’ve always been a fan of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” but will it be the same without Fred Mac Murray? I also never understood what happened to the brother Mike from the first couple seasons.
Well it’s been a few weeks since I sat down and blogged but I’m back after a brief hiatus. It was the end of the summer here and I just needed some time to breathe and enjoy the east end. The crazy crowds are gone and the planes, helicopters and sea planes have gone south for the winter. Speaking of the air traffic. A group of local citizens are calling themselves the “QUIET SKIES COALITION.” Their mission is to do something about the ever increasing air traffic on the east end. According the group summer traffic at East Hampton Airport is about the same as Islip! Which according to the group is all the more absurd because it’s a “FAA UNCONTROLLED AIRPORT” subject to no local regulation. Considering the volume they have, they believe it’s a disaster waiting to happen or at the very least get worse. There is also some concern about the property values of those who lie in the path of these planes and Sikorsky helicopters. Anyway, if you want more information about the Quiet Skies Coalition you can e mail them at info@quietskiescoalition.org or visit the website www.quietskiescoalition.org.
Meanwhile, most of this summer I have avoided the new Mexican restaurant Agave in Bridgehampton. Well I’ve since gone their twice and I will say the talk about it is a little unfair. While it’s not Rosa Mexicana, it is a definite improvement over the food at Blue Parrot. The chips were freshly fried, the service friendly and responsive. I’ve tried the enchiladas and the fajitas at Agave and I’ll say both were pretty good. The chicken fajitas were my personal favorite and were perfectly done with a generous portion. So while I can’t say you should run to Agave, I will say if you want a casual night out with some good Mexican food head there and just enjoy it for what it is… a decent night out in the Hamptons.