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Aug. 15, 1898: An army is about to invade Montauk. A little before 11 a.m. that morning, the troop transport ship Miami, anchored in Fort Pond Bay, lurched into motion. Led by a tugboat, the 3,050 ...
The Montauk Point Lighthouse stands at the eastern tip of Long Island, and it attracts about 100,000 tourists every year (a $6 billion industry to the region). The lighthouse has been the pride of ...
An area as old as the Hamptons is rich with supernatural lore. From a haunted staircase in Quogue to the Montauk Lighthouse where a drowned girl whispers at night, here are the most spine-chilling ...
The lighthouse in Montauk, the oldest in New York State, got a massive Fresnel lens in 1860, Certic said, but as the 20th century dawned, officials decided that the lighthouse needed a different one.
The popular summertime hamlet is struggling with contaminated estuaries and waters caused by outdated septic systems.
MONTAUK, N.Y. -- The Montauk Point Lighthouse is back open after a restoration project. It was part of a large resiliency project put together by state officials and the U.S. Army Corps of ...
The Montauk Lighthouse has stood tall at the Island’s eastern tip for more than 200 years, and now two projects will ensure the National Historic Landmark stays there for another couple ...
MARGARET BUCKRIDGE BOCK was 10 when her father, Thomas Abel Buckridge, took over as the Montauk Point Lighthouse keeper in 1930. Bock, a former nurse, said that when her family moved to the lightho… ...
For Transportation Week, Curbed is checking out some homes that are for sale along popular bus routes in our cities. Curbed Hamptons is taking a look at the 10C bus route—which runs from the East ...
MONTAUK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) --The U.S. Department of the Interior has decided to designate the Montauk Point Lighthouse as a National Historic Landmark. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said the designation ...
Over an intense 40-hour period, I traveled to Montauk Point on Long Island, N.Y., where I visited a historic lighthouse, found a special seltzer water at a grocery store and then squeezed in a few ...