Montauk

Montauk
	; Montauk Lighthouse (2005)
Location in New York
	Montauk
	Montauk
Basic data
State :	United States
State :	new York
County :	Suffolk County
Coordinates :	41 ° 2 ′ N , 71 ° 57 ′ W Coordinates: 41 ° 2 ′ N , 71 ° 57 ′ W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	3,326 (as of 2010)
Population density :	73.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	51.1 km 2 (approx. 20 mi 2 ) of; which 45.3 km 2 (approx. 17 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	10 m
Postal code :	11954
Area code :	+1 631
FIPS :	36-48054
GNIS ID :	957540

Montauk is a village on the eastern tip of Long Island in Suffolk County , New York State . It is listed as a census-designated place (statistical area) and belongs to East Hampton in Suffolk County .

history

The place is named after the Montaukett , a sub-tribe of the Metoac Indians, who populated the southeastern part of Long Island. According to a census from 2000, 3851 inhabitants live here. The landmark of the place is its lighthouse.

In 1926, entrepreneur Carl Graham Fisher , who had already turned Miami Beach into a vacation home, began developing the Miami Beach of the north . He bought land in Montauk and built, among other things, the luxury hotel Montauk Manor and a marina. But after the stock market crash of 1929 , the company went bankrupt in 1932.

Montauk Station is the easternmost terminus of the Long Island Rail Road .

There was a US air force base near Montauk, which was closed in 1969. Today it is a nature reserve. Camp Hero , a radar base of the US Air Force, is located in a bunker below the former military site .

Montauk also became known in the literary world through the story of the same name by the Swiss writer Max Frisch , in which he describes a weekend in May 1974 with the young acquaintance Lynn in the Hotel Gurney's Inn in Montauk and inserts sketchy and collage-like reflections on his life.