1. This year, Sagaponack’s 11962 zip code became the most expensive place to buy a house in the whole country. The median home sale price is…a whopping $8.5 million.
2. East Hampton was home to one of the first boutique cycling studios ever, the now defunct The Zone, which opened in 1997.
3. Low enrollment almost caused Stony Brook Southampton to shutter back in 2005, but the college is now prospering with a solid roster of undergrads majoring in ecological sustainability.
4. Marc Schneier, Westhampton’s Orthodox “rabbi to the stars,” was kicked out of the synagogue he founded after news broke of the five-times-married rabbi’s latest fling.
5. Jackson Pollock and his wife, Lee Krasner, moved to East Hampton in the ’40s. After their deaths, the property was given to the Stony Brook Foundation, which offers tours of their house and studio.