Dan Rattiner

By Dan Rattiner 6 minute 06/28/2026 Hamptons Subway on Charles Bermanoff’s property, Photo: Steven Heap, artemfurman/123RF SCENE ON THE SUBWAY A famous artist was seen on the subway carrying a painting wrapped up in butcher paper and tied with a string. He got off at the Hampton Bays subway stop. Was he delivering the Fourth of July cover for Dan’s Papers? COINCIDENCE? This is the third week in a row that the number of riders on the Hamptons Subway has exactly matched the total from the week before.

By Dan Rattiner 8 minute 06/27/2026 Cartoon by Dan Rattiner With all the hoopla about the U.S. Open Golf Championship in Southampton last week, several other interesting stories failed to get reported upon. Here, as a public service, are some of them. Osprey nests like this one can cause fires on electrical and communication towers (Getty Images) EAST END STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED Osprey Fire More than 100 osprey families live atop telephone poles in the Hamptons.

By Dan Rattiner 5 minute 06/21/2026 Hamptons Subway arrives. SCENE ON THE SUBWAY Sag Harbor’s April Gornik was seen at the Sag Harbor westbound platform in conversation with East Hampton’s Steven Spielberg, talking about the new film Spielberg directed. Spielberg was carrying a small statue of E.T. STILL AT 24 MILES AN HOUR As everyone knows, the Hamptons Subway trains have been slowed down to a maximum speed of 24 miles an hour by order of the Texas AI company we hired to improve our service.