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The Town's own history states only that the original name, Maidstone, gave way to East Hampton roughly fourteen years after settlement began; it does not say why that name was chosen.", "src": [ 2 ] }, "founded": { "text": "Lion Gardiner, who held a private grant to Gardiners Island, made the first European settlement within the present Town's jurisdiction there in 1639, but organized town settlement did not begin until 1648, on land the Town's own account says was purchased from the Montauket Indians. The Town of East Hampton was established by New York State in 1788 as a separate political entity with its own taxing and debt authority.", "src": [ 1, 4 ] }, "incorporated": null, "gnisId": null, "wikidataId": null }, "quickFacts": [ { "label": "Legal status", "value": "Town in Suffolk County, New York, established by the state in 1788 as a separate taxing/political entity", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "label": "Villages within the Town", "value": "Village of East Hampton (wholly within the Town) and a portion of the Village of Sag Harbor (straddling the Town of Southampton line)", "src": [ 5 ] }, { "label": "Governing charter", "value": "Dongan Patent, December 9, 1686, established the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton as its governing body", "src": [ 7 ] }, { "label": "Police", "value": "East Hampton Town Police Department, headquartered at 131 Wainscott Northwest Road, Wainscott, NY 11975 — not on Gingerbread Lane in East Hampton village", "src": [ 17 ] }, { "label": "Justice Court", "value": "East Hampton Town Justice Court, 159 Pantigo Road, East Hampton, NY 11937, (631) 324-4134", "src": [ 19, 20 ] }, { "label": "Main roads and owners", "value": "NY 27 / Montauk Highway (New York State) the length of the Town; NY 114 (New York State) from NY 27 in East Hampton village north to Sag Harbor; Springs Fireplace Road and Stephen Hand's Path (Town of East Hampton)", "src": [ 10, 11, 14 ] }, { "label": "National Historic Landmarks", "value": "Thomas Moran House (designated December 21, 1965); Jackson Pollock House and Studio, Springs (designated April 19, 1994); Montauk Point Lighthouse (designated March 2, 2012)", "src": [ 29, 30 ] }, { "label": "Prior written notice law", "value": "Town Code § 217-4 through § 217-6, which supersedes Town Law § 65-a(1) and (3) as applied to East Hampton", "src": [ 24, 25 ] } ], "timeline": [ { "date": "1639", "label": "Gardiners Island settled", "text": "Lion Gardiner made the first European settlement within the present Town's jurisdiction on his privately held Gardiners Island.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "date": "1648-04-29", "label": "Sachems' agreement and purchase", "text": "The Sachems of Manhasset, Wyandanch, Montauk, Corchaug and Shinnecock agreed to sell land to the governor of the New Haven Colony, and a separate purchase for the inhabitants of East Hampton was made by Thomas Stanton and others for 30 pounds, 4 shillings, 8 pence, beginning organized town settlement.", "src": [ 6 ] }, { "date": "1686-12-09", "label": "Dongan Patent", "text": "The colonial governor's Dongan Patent to the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton made the Trustees the town's recognized governing body.", "src": [ 7 ] }, { "date": "1784", "label": "Clinton Academy built", "text": "Local citizens funded construction of Clinton Academy, one of the first academies in New York State chartered by the Board of Regents.", "src": [ 27 ] }, { "date": "1788", "label": "Town established by the state", "text": "New York State established the Town of East Hampton as a separate political entity with independent taxing and debt authority.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "date": "1965-12-21", "label": "Moran House landmarked", "text": "The Thomas Moran House in East Hampton village was designated a National Historic Landmark.", "src": [ 29 ] }, { "date": "1994-04-19", "label": "Pollock House and Studio landmarked", "text": "The Jackson Pollock House and Studio in Springs was designated a National Historic Landmark.", "src": [ 29 ] }, { "date": "2012-03-02", "label": "Montauk Point Lighthouse landmarked", "text": "The Montauk Point Lighthouse was designated a National Historic Landmark.", "src": [ 30 ] }, { "date": "2015-04-16", "label": "Airport noise local laws adopted", "text": "The Town Board codified three restrictions on aircraft noise at East Hampton Airport — a mandatory curfew, an extended curfew on noisy aircraft, and a weekly one-round-trip limit — at Town Code §§ 75-38 and 75-39.", "src": [ 9 ] }, { "date": "2016-11-04", "label": "Second Circuit decides airport case", "text": "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held in Friends of the East Hampton Airport, Inc. v. Town of East Hampton that the Town's three noise laws were likely preempted because they were adopted without following federal procedural requirements.", "src": [ 8 ] }, { "date": "2021", "label": "Seaview at Amagansett decided on appeal", "text": "The Appellate Division, Second Department, decided Seaview at Amagansett, Ltd. v. Trustees of Freeholders and Commonalty of Town of East Hampton, 191 A.D.3d 717, part of litigation over the Napeague ocean beachfront.", "src": [ 32 ] } ], "sections": [ { "id": "history", "heading": "History", "paragraphs": [ "The Town of East Hampton occupies the easternmost end of Long Island's South Fork in Suffolk County. Lion Gardiner, who held a private grant to the island that bears his name, made the earliest European settlement within the Town's present jurisdiction on Gardiners Island in 1639, but organized town settlement did not begin until 1648, on roughly 30,000 acres the Town's own history says were purchased from the Montauket Indians.[1] The settlers first called the town Maidstone; the name became East Hampton about fourteen years later, though the Town's own account does not give an exact date or explain the choice.[2] Whaling, fishing, farming and cattle raising were the settlers' early industries.[1]", "The Trustees of East Hampton's own published transcription of the town's seventeenth-century records reproduces an April 29, 1648 agreement among the Sachems of Manhasset, Wyandanch, Montauk, Corchaug and Shinnecock and the governor of the New Haven Colony, followed by a separate purchase of the East Hampton portion of the land by Thomas Stanton and others, acting for the inhabitants, for 30 pounds, 4 shillings and 8 pence.[6] Nearly four decades later, on December 9, 1686, the colonial governor's Dongan Patent to the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton made that body the town's officially recognized governing authority; the Trustees describe it as one of the earliest documents to provide for representative government by elected officials in colonial New York.[7] The Trustees, a body distinct from the Town Board, still exist today and continue to hold and manage the town's common lands, beaches and underwater lands under that patent.[7]", "In 1784 local citizens funded construction of Clinton Academy in East Hampton village at the request of the Reverend Samuel Buell; named for Governor George Clinton, who donated its bell, the school became one of the first academies in New York State chartered by the Board of Regents and taught young men college- and career-preparatory subjects and young women household management before the state dissolved the chartered-academy system.[27] The East Hampton Historical Society today preserves seven historic sites in East Hampton and Amagansett, including Clinton Academy, the Mulford Farmstead and the Dominy Shops Museum.[26]", "The Town's landmarks include three sites the National Park Service has designated National Historic Landmarks: the house of Hudson River School painter Thomas Moran in East Hampton village, designated December 21, 1965; the house and studio of Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock in the hamlet of Springs, designated April 19, 1994; and the Montauk Point Lighthouse, designated March 2, 2012.[29][30]" ] }, { "id": "roads", "heading": "How the roads got here", "paragraphs": [ "New York State Route 27, known locally as Montauk Highway, is the Town's principal road. The New York State Department of Transportation's official touring-route description runs NY 27 through \"Oakville, North Shinnecock Hills, Southampton, East Hampton,\" continuing to Montauk Point.[10] The stretch of NY 27 running through East Hampton, Amagansett and Montauk (together with the Shore Parkway, Belt Parkway and Sunrise Highway to the west) carries the state's POW-MIA Memorial Highway designation.[12]", "New York State Route 114 begins at NY 27 in East Hampton and runs north through Sag Harbor, North Haven and Shelter Island to Greenport, per the same NYSDOT description.[11] Within East Hampton and Sag Harbor, the Legislature has additionally named this stretch of NY 114 the Lost At Sea Memorial Pike.[13]", "The Town of East Hampton's own Highway Department maintains about 300 center-lane miles of local roads \"from Montauk to the East Hampton/Southampton Town Line and Sag Harbor to the North,\" and it performs snow-and-ice maintenance on NYS Route 27 between the Village of East Hampton and Montauk Point under an agreement with the state, which retains ownership of the route.[14][15]", "Springs Fireplace Road, the hamlet of Springs' principal local road, has been the subject of a Town-commissioned corridor study evaluating traffic, land use and environmental issues along the road and the surrounding area.[16]" ] }, { "id": "law", "heading": "Law and legal history", "paragraphs": [ "The Town of East Hampton owns and operates East Hampton Airport. In 2015, after a decade-long attempt at voluntary noise abatement, the Town Board codified three restrictions on aircraft noise at Town Code §§ 75-38 and 75-39: a mandatory curfew barring all aircraft from the airport between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., an extended curfew on \"Noisy Aircraft\" beginning at 8:00 p.m., and a weekly one-round-trip limit on noisy aircraft.[9] Aviation businesses sued, and in Friends of the East Hampton Airport, Inc. v. Town of East Hampton, 841 F.3d 133 (2d Cir. 2016), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the Town was likely to have lost its claim to the Airline Deregulation Act's \"proprietor exception\" to federal preemption because it enacted all three local laws without first complying with the procedural requirements of the federal Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990 — requirements the court held apply to any public airport operator regardless of whether it accepts federal funding.[8] The court affirmed the district court's injunction against the weekly flight-limit law and directed that the other two restrictions be enjoined as well, without deciding whether the laws would otherwise have qualified for the proprietor exception.[8]", "Like most New York municipalities, East Hampton has adopted a local prior-written-notice law. Town Code § 217-4 bars any civil action against the Town or its Superintendent of Highways for injuries caused by a defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed highway, bridge or culvert — including a snow or ice condition — \"unless written notice of such defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition of such highway, bridge or culvert was actually given to the Town Clerk or Town Superintendent of Highways,\" followed by a failure to act within a reasonable time.[24] The Town Board adopted this local law expressly \"to supersede, in its application to the Town of East Hampton, Subdivisions 1 and 3 of § 65-a of the Town Law,\" and § 217-5 requires the Superintendent to forward any notice he receives to the Town Clerk, who must present it to the Town Board within five days or by its next meeting.[25]", "The Trustees created by the 1686 Dongan Patent hold much of the Town's ocean beachfront and underwater land in trust rather than as an ordinary municipal owner, a structure that has repeatedly put them in court over beach access. Property owners along the Napeague oceanfront between Amagansett and Montauk, including The Seaview at Amagansett, Ltd. and related plaintiffs, brought a Suffolk County Supreme Court action against the Trustees concerning \"the westerly border of Napeague State Park\" and regulations governing vehicular use of the beach.[33]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "New York State established the Town of East Hampton in 1788 as a separate political entity with its own taxing and debt authority.[4] One incorporated village, the Village of East Hampton, sits wholly within the Town's borders, and a portion of a second, the Village of Sag Harbor, straddles the line with the Town of Southampton.[5] Legislative power rests in the Town Board.[4]", "The East Hampton Town Police Department, a New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services–accredited agency, is headquartered at 131 Wainscott Northwest Road in Wainscott — not at a Gingerbread Lane address in East Hampton village, as some published directories state — and can be reached at (631) 537-7575.[17]", "The East Hampton Town Justice Court, at 159 Pantigo Road in East Hampton, \"has original jurisdiction over all crimes occurring in the Village and Town of East Hampton, and handles violations and misdemeanors to conclusion,\" along with Town and Village traffic, parking and code violations and civil, small-claims and landlord-tenant matters; its listed phone number is (631) 324-4134.[19][20]", "Road ownership in the Town is split between the state and the Town itself: NY 27 and NY 114 are state highways, while the Town's own Highway Department builds and maintains roads such as Springs Fireplace Road and about 300 center-lane miles of other local streets, and separately performs snow-and-ice maintenance on NY 27 east of the Village of East Hampton under an agreement with the state.[14][15]" ] } ], "legalCases": [ { "name": "Friends of the East Hampton Airport, Inc. v. Town of East Hampton", "citation": "841 F.3d 133 (2d Cir. 2016)", "court": "United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit", "year": 2016, "connection": "Challenge by aviation businesses to three Town local laws restricting noisy and nighttime aircraft operations at the Town-owned East Hampton Airport.", "holding": "Held that plaintiffs could invoke equity jurisdiction and were likely to succeed on their claim that all three 2015 local laws (a mandatory curfew, an extended curfew on noisy aircraft, and a weekly flight limit) were preempted by federal law because the Town enacted them without complying with the procedural requirements of the Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990, which apply to public airport operators regardless of federal-funding status; affirmed the injunction against the flight-limit law and directed that the other two laws be enjoined as well, without reaching the Airline Deregulation Act's proprietor-exception question.", "src": [ 8, 9 ] } ], "landmarks": [ { "name": "Montauk Point Lighthouse", "designation": "National Historic Landmark, designated March 2, 2012", "src": [ 30 ] }, { "name": "Thomas Moran House, East Hampton village", "designation": "National Historic Landmark, designated December 21, 1965", "src": [ 29 ] }, { "name": "Jackson Pollock House and Studio, Springs", "designation": "National Historic Landmark, designated April 19, 1994", "src": [ 29 ] }, { "name": "Clinton Academy (1784), 151 Main Street, East Hampton", "designation": "One of the first academies in New York State chartered by the Board of Regents; now an East Hampton Historical Society museum and office; no separate National Register listing verified", "src": [ 27 ] }, { "name": "Mulford Farmstead, 10 James Lane, East Hampton", "designation": "East Hampton Historical Society historic site; no National Register listing verified", "src": [ 28 ] }, { "name": "Town of East Hampton Architectural Review Board historic districts", "designation": "Locally designated historic districts: Springs, Montauk Association, Bluff Road and Amagansett; distinct from any National Register listing", "src": [ 26 ] } ], "notableFacts": [ { "text": "The Dongan Patent of December 9, 1686 created the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton, a body the Trustees still cite as one of the earliest instruments of representative government by elected officials in colonial New York — and the Trustees still govern the town's beaches and common lands today.", "src": [ 7 ] }, { "text": "East Hampton's original name was Maidstone; the Town's own history says it became known as East Hampton about fourteen years after the 1648 settlement.", "src": [ 2 ] }, { "text": "Lion Gardiner settled Gardiners Island, within the Town's present jurisdiction, in 1639 — nine years before organized town settlement began in 1648.", "src": [ 1 ] }, { "text": "Clinton Academy, built in East Hampton village in 1784, was one of the first academies in New York State chartered by the Board of Regents.", "src": [ 27 ] }, { "text": "New York State has designated the stretch of NY 27 (Montauk Highway) through East Hampton, Amagansett and Montauk as part of the POW-MIA Memorial Highway.", "src": [ 12 ] }, { "text": "NY 114 through East Hampton and Sag Harbor carries a second official designation, the Lost At Sea Memorial Pike.", "src": [ 13 ] }, { "text": "The Town's East Hampton Emergency Department, at 400 Pantigo Place, opened as one of only a few off-campus, freestanding emergency departments in New York State.", "src": [ 22 ] } ], "sources": [ { "id": 1, "title": "Demographics (brief history)", "publisher": "Town of East Hampton", "url": "https://www.ehamptonny.gov/343/Demographics", "year": "2026", "type": "government" }, { "id": 2, "title": "Demographics (Maidstone name change)", "publisher": "Town of East Hampton", "url": "https://www.ehamptonny.gov/343/Demographics", "year": "2026", "type": "government" }, { "id": 4, "title": "Form of Government", "publisher": "Town of East Hampton", "url": "https://www.ehamptonny.gov/345/Form-of-Government", "year": "2026", "type": "government" }, { "id": 5, "title": "Form of Government (villages within the Town)", "publisher": "Town of East Hampton", "url": "https://www.ehamptonny.gov/345/Form-of-Government", "year": "2026", "type": "government" }, { "id": 6, "title": "History: 1600s (Records of the Town Trustees of East-Hampton, Vol. I, 1639-1680)", "publisher": "East Hampton Town Trustees", "url": "https://ehtrustees.com/about/history/1600s/", "year": "n.d.", "type": "government" }, { "id": 7, "title": "History: 1600s (the Dongan Patent, December 9, 1686)", "publisher": "East Hampton Town Trustees", "url": "https://ehtrustees.com/about/history/1600s/", "year": "n.d.", "type": "government" }, { "id": 8, "title": "Friends of the East Hampton Airport, Inc. v. 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