East Hampton (New York)

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East Hampton
Location in Suffolk County (New York)
Location in Suffolk County (New York)
Basic data
Foundation : 1648
State : United States
State : new York
County : Suffolk County
Coordinates : 41 ° 4 ′  N , 72 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 4 ′  N , 72 ° 2 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 21,457 (as of 2010)
Population density : 111.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 1,001.2 km 2  (approx. 387 mi 2 ) of
which 192.5 km 2  (approx. 74 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 0 m
Postal code : 11937
Area code : +1 631
FIPS : 36-22194
GNIS ID : 978919
Website : www.ehamptonny.gov

East Hampton is a city in Suffolk County in New York . It is part of the Hamptons and was founded in 1648.

geography

The place is located on the south coast in the east of Long Island on the Atlantic and has a total area of ​​192.5 km². In addition to the village of the same name, the town also includes the hamlets of Montauk , Amagansett , Wainscott , Springs and part of the village (Village Of) Sag Harbor , the other part of which belongs to Southampton .

Attractions

Old Hook Mill

East Hampton has a number of cultural and architectural attractions:

Personalities

The city is the birthplace of Catherine Esther Beecher , an American writer. The high-ranking US diplomat and longtime high commissioner in Germany Samuel Reber was also born here. In 1944, the German expressionist writer Hans Schiebelhuth died here in his summer house . The psychologist Stanley Schachter had his summer house here, where he died in 1997. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis grew up on her grandparents' estate in East Hampton. The artist William de Kooning died in 1997 in his studio in Springs / East Hampton. The doctor George Huntington (1850-1916), who researched the St. Vitus Dance , also came from East Hampton. This disease was later named Huntington's Disease after him . From 1945/46 the painters Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock lived and worked in Springs, where Pollock died in a car accident in 1956. Between 1949 and his death in 1988, the Sardinian artist Costantino Nivola lived with his family in the hamlet of Amagansett. A regular guest of the Nivolas was Le Corbusier , who painted his only murals in the USA that have survived to this day in the Nivolas' house. The couple Stefi and Frederick Kiesler also had a summer house in the immediate vicinity .

In 2005, the married couple Judith and Gerson Leiber set up the Leiber Museum on the Old Stone Highway in Spings, in which, in addition to Judith Leiber's handbag collection, paintings by Gerson Leiber are also shown. Judith and Gerson Leiber died on the property at the end of April 2018, just a few hours apart, at the age of 97.

literature

  • Alastair Gordon: Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons. Princeton Architectural Press, 2001

Web links

Commons : Town of East Hampton, New York  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files