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The Montauk Association Historic District is a 100-acre (40 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is a complex of large Shingle style cottages for wealthy New York City families' summer use, designed by McKim, Mead and White within a site plan designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1881.
Montauk Friends of Olmsted Parks LLC was established in 1994 to protect an extensive system of beaches and waterfront properties and roadways. In 1995, Montauk became the birthplace of the extreme surfcasting technique known as skishing. The sport involves donning a wetsuit and flippers and swimming into the ocean with rod and reel to catch ...
The Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, the Montauk Highway, and private bus services connect the Hamptons to the rest of Long Island and to New York City, while ferries provide connections to Shelter Island, New York and Connecticut. Stony Brook University's Southampton campus is located in the Hamptons.
Gurney's Inn is a Long Island oceanfront resort, in Montauk, New York. Gurney's Inn. U.S. President Richard Nixon wrote his acceptance speech at the Skippers Cottage at Gurney's Inn. [1] The oceanfront resort includes a seawater pool [2] and group accommodations for weddings, business meetings and other events.
In the 1890s, Austin Corbin extended the Long Island Rail Road from Bridgehampton, New York to the Montauk fishing village (the line extension was called the Fort Pond Railway). His friend Arthur Bensen purchased 10,000 acres (40 km 2 ) of Montaukett land around the village and the LIRR began advertising that it could cut a day off ship travel ...
Four years after a Category 5 hurricane hit Mexico Beach, the small Florida seaside town is building back. Is it becoming a preserve of the wealthy?