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The Hamptons tradition of emptying out after Labor Day is vanishing, replaced by year-round crowds that remote workers, content creators, and tourism marketers show no sign of surrendering. For more than five decades, the Tuesday after Labor Day carried an unofficial name on the East End of Long Island: Tumbleweed Tuesday. It marked the day […] The post Hamptons "Tumbleweed Tuesday" fades as remote workers and influencers refuse to leave after Labor Day appeared first on American Almanac .
The Hamptons tradition of emptying out after Labor Day is vanishing, replaced by year-round crowds that remote workers, content creators, and tourism marketers show no sign of surrendering. For more than five decades, the Tuesday after Labor Day carried an unofficial name on the East End of Long Island: Tumbleweed Tuesday. It marked the day summer visitors packed up, traffic evaporated, and locals reclaimed their towns for nine quiet months. That ritual is now, by most accounts, finished. Second-home owners who once left after the holiday weekend are filing earnings reports from places like Quogue. Influencers are staging fall content shoots in Montauk. And the region's own tourism office has actively campaigned to keep the crowds coming.…Open
The Town of East Hampton has filed a lawsuit demanding the immediate demolition of a 60-foot sculpture built from welded shipping containers on once-protected farmland in Montauk, land restricted to agricultural use since 1983. The complaint, filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court, names property owner Max Levai and his business, The Ranch, over what the […] The post East Hampton sues over unpermitted shipping container sculpture on protected Montauk farmland appeared first on American Almanac .
The Town of East Hampton has filed a lawsuit demanding the immediate demolition of a 60-foot sculpture built from welded shipping containers on once-protected farmland in Montauk, land restricted to agricultural use since 1983. The complaint, filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court, names property owner Max Levai and his business, The Ranch, over what the town calls the unlawful construction of an unpermitted structure. The sculpture, titled "Mediating Figure," was built by Los Angeles-based artist Matt Johnson from 12 retired steel shipping containers and installed on the property on June 27. Residents quickly pushed back, and the East Hampton Town Board voted 4-1 on July 7 to pursue legal action. The town brought four charges: violation of…Open