Episode 259 - Lori Lambert and Steven Zellman

April 30, 2026 - Discussing Should You Buy or Should You Rent in the Hamptons

A $100,000 summer rental can disappear in six weeks, but that same $100,000 can also change what you can afford forever. We dig into the Hamptons buy vs rent decision the way real clients actually face it: comparing a home for sale against a home for rent, weighing lifestyle against long-term wealth, and asking the uncomfortable question of how much you need to use a place for ownership to make sense.

We also talk about what makes the Hamptons unique: every town and pocket lives differently. Do you want beach access, village energy, bay sunsets, or quiet woods? Renting can be a smart “test drive” if you are unsure, but buying starts to look like a slam dunk when you know your spot and plan to hold for years. One of our favorite frames is the fixed-rate mortgage “time travel” effect: locking a key cost while rents and everyday expenses rise, turning today’s payment into tomorrow’s bargain.

Then we shift to the market and what’s happening now. We spotlight a featured listing at 578 Stephen Hands Path with both sale and summer rental options, share this week’s Hamptons stats on deals in contract, dollar volume, new listings, and inventory, and close with weekend picks from a psychic medium to live comedy, spring markets, a museum opening, and Long Island Restaurant Week. If this helped you think clearer about buying, renting, or timing your move, subscribe, share this with a friend debating the Hamptons, and leave us a review. What’s your biggest hang-up: price, location, or how often you’d really use the house?

Reach out to the Zellman Lambert Team at Saunders & Associates:

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Transcript

Andrew Doud 0:08

It is Thursday, everyone. I'm Major Dow. Time for a Happening in the Hamptons podcast, our weekly breakdown of the Hamptons market, new listings, and events on the East End. We are sponsored by New York Title Abstract, the Hamptons leading title insurance firm. Visit NewYorktle.com. We have Steve Glick, Dave Retiner, and today return guests, Lori Lambert and Steve Zellman. How are you guys?

SPEAKER_02 0:28

We're really, really good.

Andrew Doud 0:30

Really, really good. It's uh a little bit of a rainy day. We're just talking about the weather. We want it to improve. It's going to improve because May's around the corner. May's tomorrow?

SPEAKER_02 0:39

May Day.

Andrew Doud 0:39

This weekend. Yep. This weekend. All right. So we're getting, I mean, we're like, I'm saying we're into the season. Things are busy.

Steve Glick 0:46

Um 25 days, I think, till Memorial Day. So we're what it is. Yeah, we're getting there. We're there.

Andrew Doud 0:51

That's 26th day.

Steve Glick 0:52

26, 26.

Andrew Doud 0:53

You know, we've had we've had what I call like spring one and then winter two or three. And then we're back to like spring two. Yep. So it's like, you know, and then we get into the summer, and it's nice. Uh, but you guys, we were talking about what we wanted to discuss on this podcast, and obviously we'll talk rentals and sales, and you have a great exclusive on Stephen Hand's path that we'll get to. But the the argument for buying and renting is something that uh I think can be unique to the Hamptons because uh, you know, if you were to say to somebody, should I buy or rent? Instinctively, somebody would say, Well, you you buy, right? That's why wouldn't you buy? But there's an argument to be made for why you would rent in the Hamptons. What is your take on the buy versus rent argument?

SPEAKER_05 1:41

Well, so uh why I got to this subject for today is because I had a really interesting day the other day with clients who were in the same quandary. So they asked to see both. And I took them out. We saw 14 houses, about half in a day?

Andrew Doud 2:00

Yeah. Wow. That that's moving. That's impressive.

SPEAKER_05 2:03

No, it was three days of work putting that together.

Andrew Doud 2:05

Yeah, I just the coordination alone. Hitting every appointment.

SPEAKER_05 2:09

On time for every single one except the last one.

Steve Glick 2:12

And was the other agent on time? Showing the showing agent? Well, what happened? They were to get everything on time.

Dave Rattiner 2:20

We'll tell them after.

SPEAKER_05 2:21

Okay, no, no. I we well, that's not necessarily true.

SPEAKER_03 2:24

It's called driving really fast. Yeah, no, no.

SPEAKER_05 2:26

It wasn't no, see, but it wasn't even that. It was routing, it was routed properly. Anyway, we don't need to waste time on that. But um the day was great, and and it was down to the end, they still weren't sure, and then we isolated two properties. One was for sale and one was for rent. So we made offers on both, and at the end of the day, they sort of zeroed in on the sale one. Now, why? It's because obviously, we can talk a little bit about why it's better to buy out here first. And obviously, it's better to buy out here because your home becomes an asset and because you really I mean, uh the argument is obvious. I mean, it offers equity, tax advantage, and a hard asset. Um, historically hedging well against inflation. Um, the other argument for it is that as we've discussed in the last half hour, if you have a mortgage, your mortgage is not going to go up with inflation if you have a fixed mortgage, unlike rent or unlike everything else, which goes up year after year after year after year. It got to the point where we put an offer in for the sale house and it ended up being going back and forth with pricing, it ended up being$100,000 more than what they had originally set their limit as. And I was able to point out to them that uh that$100,000 was the same hundred thousand dollars that they would have spent on a rental for a month and a half out here. Obviously, the rents here do not line up with the rents anywhere else in the country. I can't say in the world, but probably here in Nantucket, there's probably very few places that have$100,000 for a month. But um and they really, you know, they absorb that that that that reasoning because why take$100,000 and it disappears, right? It disappears and you really don't have a home base and you really can't improve it. You can't make it your own. The argument to rent, and I think we can all discuss this, is here in the Hamptons, we have such diversified uh towns and neighborhoods, and even within each town, different areas that people like. Do you want to be near the beach? Do you want to be near the village? Do you want to be near the bay? Do you want to be in the woods? I mean, uh Sag Harbor versus East Hampton so different areas. And it's really great. We rented out here, Steven and I rented out here for many years. Um we identified East Hampton as where we felt at home and and gave us most of what we wanted. But everybody you go out with, you know, as a real estate agent, I I always feel like it's important to make sure that they understand the difference between the towns before they buy or they rent. So sometimes our advice is rent here before you buy if you really don't know where you want to be. These people knew they wanted to be in East Hampton, so the argument was clear. They should buy because for year after year they could always rent it if they decided they're not using it, or they could always sell it and make money because you're never gonna lose your money out here.

Andrew Doud 5:31

Smart. You know, and you look at something like let's just say you're not sure where you want to be, you like Sag Harbor or Bridgehampton or Southampton, like you can rent somewhere in the middle there for the season and have easy access to all three. Yeah. And then maybe the next summer, you're like, okay, we've really set it on Southampton, that's where we want to be, and you buy.

Steve Glick 5:53

Well, it's also like, you know, you're gonna experience the summer months renting, right? Right. So you're like, let me take the summer to look at homes because you're not gonna find a home that quick. You wanna see the home in its best light, see how the traffic is, and see it during the summer. So come out for the summer, rent one season, and then while you're out here, look at all the homes, go to the open houses, and you know, by next summer you'll be living in your house that you own.

Andrew Doud 6:18

The other thing is, I mean, o owning a home, as we all do, right? It's it costs a lot of money to upkeep. Things break, things need repair, you need to this, you need to that. So if you do buy, and depending on the size of the home and property, like obviously that is going to be an expense that and something you're gonna have to factor into the purchase. If you're going to rent, there is a luxury in being able to say, I'm gonna take it for a month and not have to worry about it. You don't have to worry about it. You know what I mean? There so it just really depends, I think, on what you want and the amount of time you want to use it. If it's an asset or or a place that you're gonna use predominantly for, you know, months out of the year for five years, then yeah, I mean, buying just seems like a slam dunk.

SPEAKER_05 7:01

The other thing though is, you know, people come out here and rent, they don't realize how great it is out here in the off season, you know. So they're missing that. If you're renting, you're really not getting the full experience of my favorite month being September, you know, September, October.

Andrew Doud 7:13

Don't tell people September is great out here. Yeah, no, don't come in September.

SPEAKER_05 7:17

We don't we don't have traffic.

Andrew Doud 7:19

Just leave that alone.

Dave Rattiner 7:21

I mean, objectively, owning is a much better option than renting. I mean, if you look at it from a financial perspective, financially, yes.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

Well, you're basically bolting your money to the ground.

Dave Rattiner 7:33

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think into a safe asset.

Andrew Doud 7:37

But I totally understand why there is an argument for renting, especially if you're limited time out here or unsure of exactly where you want to call home. And I and I think, I mean, if you really want that asset to grow, theoretically you want to hold it for more than a year. I mean, there's obviously ways to make money on a flip or in a year, you know what I mean. You could buy and turn around. If you didn't like Southampton, you wanted to go to East Hampton. Like, it's not that you would necessarily lose the money, but like you give it five years and that asset will grow, you'd be really happy that you had it.

SPEAKER_05 8:09

Well, Stephen, when your parents could have bought out here, what was the story, right?

SPEAKER_02 8:15

Me and my brothers were going to sleepaway camp, so they decided whether to send us to sleepaway camp or buy a$30,000 house in Southampton, ocean front.$30,000. Oh my goodness. Ocean front. Yes. And what did they do? They sent us to camp. Oh man. Yes, right, exactly. Because they had a boat and the heck of a camp. I hope that was a great best experience of your life. And I I years later I said, Dad, what were you thinking?

Dave Rattiner 8:43

My God.

SPEAKER_05 8:44

Well, there you go.

Dave Rattiner 8:45

There's so many wulda, coulda, shudda's, though, in life. That's a big one. Yeah, that's a big one.

SPEAKER_05 8:50

But as you said, you know, Dave, the the reality is that you buy a house and you get a mortgage or you pay for it, it's not gonna go down. It's only gonna go up if you hold on to it long enough. And you know, the other thing that I was gonna say is that you know, when you own a house, you can't spend that money for a while.

Dave Rattiner 9:06

And it's compounding, right?

SPEAKER_05 9:07

It's compounding force compounding as opposed to right, there's no discipline because you you have to be if that money's inequities, you can fool around with it, and God only knows what you're doing. And then you screw it up, yeah.

Andrew Doud 9:19

So give your argument, your your analogy that we were talking about beforehand. Your cup of coffee.

Dave Rattiner 9:24

Well, I was thinking about this the other day. Like when I was 11, uh, after school, I'd go to Barnes and Springs, uh, and I had a dollar, and I would buy a bag of chips for 50 cents and a schwank's iced tea for 50 cents.

Andrew Doud 9:42

A what?

Dave Rattiner 9:43

A schwank's iced tea.

Andrew Doud 9:45

You couldn't just say iced tea.

Dave Rattiner 9:47

It was bonictonic back then. They still sit down. It's in the green in the green carton. Anyway, whatever. A snapple, all right? Make it easier to snapple. So not your squid.

SPEAKER_05 9:56

It was a dollar.

Dave Rattiner 9:56

It was a dollar.

SPEAKER_05 9:57

And um I still expect it to be a dollar.

Dave Rattiner 10:00

Yeah, so it was one dollar. And I was thinking to myself the other day, I was like, man, I wish there was a way you could you could have a have that fixed, you know. Like I wish 30 years ago I could have done something that would make it so that instead of it being, you know, 11, you know, mmm, call it, I'd say a bag of chips and a snapple is probably today like eight dollars. I'm not even exaggerating. Right. Oh yeah, right. Like$3.59 for both or something. And with tax, it's like$8. Right. So that's eight times as much as it was when I was a kid. Eight, literally eight times. And you would hear I remember hearing that as a kid, you know, I'd buy it for 50 cents, and somebody would say to me, Oh, I remember when it was five cents, you know, and I'd be like, Oh, that's so weird. You know, when I was a kid, you would think that. Because you can't think that far ahead. Of course, you don't need it. I mean, a curtain. You know, it's like with uh a f but with a financial product like a mortgage, it's fixed for for 30 years. And so you say that joke, you know, oh, you know, a million years ago it was$30,000 for an ocean front or whatever. And yeah, it's true. A million years ago. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, a million years. Come on, man, give them a look. It's not that credit. But you know, I I guess my my point is is housing is the only, literally the only thing that you have the ability to time travel, you know, for a 30-year-old.

Steve Glick 11:21

You lock it in, you lock in your 30-year rate.

Dave Rattiner 11:23

You lock in for the rest of your life. Time travel. This magical payment, and it feels normal for five years, but then 10 years, you're like, um, you know, my mortgage payment is, you know, 3,000, everyone's paying 4,000 for rent, you know, or 5,000 for rent for the same thing that I got. And then the next thing you know, 20 years goes by, and you're like, oh my goodness, you know, people are paying, you know, nine, ten thousand dollars for the same thing I got. And mine's and mine's still this same payment. And and it's just it's hard to think that far in advance. Uh really but it's important to it. But but if you can, man. Well, there's not many things you can lock in for 30 years. Literally, the you can do that. For 30 years, yeah, there's not many things that you could do that with gas, and it's such a critical thing at home, you know. So, you know, uh it's it to me, it's it's so important. It's a survival thing for for a lot of people.

SPEAKER_05 12:11

A lot of people that are listening to this though, or this is a second home, right? So it's it's a different kind of equation. Right.

Dave Rattiner 12:18

That's how I think because I'm local.

SPEAKER_05 12:19

Well, right, but as a second home, you know, you have to weigh whether or not you either one feel that you and your family will use it, you know, well over time. It is a generic generational purchase, too. If people can always say, and kids, you know, my parents have a home in the Hamptons, it's gonna be mine one day. It will always have that sort of um sparkle to it, right? A home in the Hamptons will always be something that people perk up about. Um and renting a home in the Hamptons, too, you know, that's fantastic. But if you really think that you could take advantage of it, there's no doubt in my mind that buying is the best. It's a great investment. And you see over time.

Dave Rattiner 13:02

Renting's like, ooh, I want to pay on, and you're on vacation. You're not you're not thinking about it. The investment is the same reason you'd you'd spend a thousand dollars a night at a hotel.

SPEAKER_05 13:13

But a thousand dollars a night, there's no more hotels for a thousand dollars a night.

Dave Rattiner 13:16

But unfortunately, that's another thing. Oh no, that's another thing. It's a luxury. It's a it's you know, it's it's a but it's a throwaway. It's a throwaway. Yeah, it's a throwaway. For the experience, and I understand that.

SPEAKER_05 13:27

For many years, for many years when we were just still babies, we rented out here instead of going on vacation. We would spend um like 15 years ago, it was fifty thousand dollars for the summer, which was still a lot of money for for us, right?

Andrew Doud 13:40

It's a lot of money for there's a lot of money.

SPEAKER_05 13:42

It's a lot of money for I mean it's not it's not chunks.

SPEAKER_02 13:45

We got the whole summer.

SPEAKER_05 13:46

Yeah, not the whole summer, but we didn't go on vacation that year.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

But that was vacation. Yeah. That was a problem with that is you count every weekend. Yeah. Like how many weekends do we take it? That's true.

Andrew Doud 13:54

This is why I don't have a boat. I don't have a boat because I'm like, I don't have the time to spend on the boat every weekend. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 14:01

Use it enough, right?

Andrew Doud 14:02

You have to use it enough. Same thing with the house.

SPEAKER_05 14:04

Same thing with the house. If you're only going to use it on the weekends, you know, you're spending$100,000,$150,000 a month out here, which is pretty, I had to say, is that average now, would you say?

Steve Glick 14:12

Yeah.$150.

SPEAKER_05 14:13

For a house that's really nice. I mean, I'd say the average is$100 a month. That's not jump chain.

SPEAKER_02 14:19

And we used to hate like last year it ended on September 1st. This year the renters are getting an extra week because it wasn't said type of time.

SPEAKER_05 14:25

But they're counting the days down until the summer's over. So, you know, I I listen, I never have looked back since we bought our house. I I feel like we've made it.

SPEAKER_02 14:33

One one year we we rented September, October, November on Buell Lane, and we just loved it out here. Oh, I'm not supposed to say how great the full is. I'm sorry.

Andrew Doud 14:43

Yeah, just that's fine. We'll hit the stop record and then we can talk about that. But no, that's true.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

Yeah, we just sat there and it was great. We enjoyed it, and then we decided, you know what? This is stupid. This is stupid.

SPEAKER_05 14:53

The other thing, the other decision that I made was I was sick of paying somebody else's mortgage. Yeah. I mean, when you're renting, you're really paying somebody else's mortgage. Why not, why not have that be your investment? And it's it's we never looked back because we never looked back.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

It's bigger.

SPEAKER_05 15:07

We've already doubled our money, right? That's the other thing. We've more than double, we've trip almost tripled our money. Yeah. So, you know, the investment, it was never gonna it's never gonna be better.

Dave Rattiner 15:17

You know what I think is so funny? You have your you own your house in East Hampton. And yes. Do people say this to you all the time? They say, Well, why don't you what are you guys doing? You could get so much money for your ass. Why don't you rent it? And I think the same thing. I'm like, yeah, I could, but I don't want somebody sleeping in my bed.

SPEAKER_05 15:30

I don't want to be here. No, no, wait, wait, wait, wait. I want to be here.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

Wait, one second, one second. So one summer we decided we were going to try and rent the house for October to uh August to Labor Day, and we had we had a tenant that was about to sign a lease, and Lori woke up in the middle of the night and says, I don't want anybody sleeping in my bed. That's it. That was the only time. Almost becomes your turn. You don't want somebody in your house.

SPEAKER_05 15:55

Well, there's damage and you know, all that stuff. Oh, there's always something that you're doing. Yeah, there's always something. But I think I think the discussion here is about whether or not you should not so much rent your house, but rent somebody else's house. And you know, at the end of the day, I think we all agree it's this buying a house is just well worth it. The house that we are just about to talk about.

Dave Rattiner 16:13

So what do you have for sale? Yeah, what do you sell? Good segue, very nice.

SPEAKER_05 16:15

578 Stephen Hans Path is a listing that we have. Um the homeowners want to sell, and if they don't sell it, they will rent it. So we've just decided to put it on for rent for the summer. Again, it's about$110,000. This one's about$110, did we decide for Memorial Day to Labor Day? Memorial Day. Right. And the house is for sale for$2.5. No,$2.3. 2.3. Yeah, we just dropped it.$2.35. Um, so that$100,000 could be half of a down payment for somebody. You know, if if you look at it that way, right, that$100,000 for the summer, they have add another$100,000 and they could own it, right? So I you know, this is this is a this is we could put it this way.

SPEAKER_02 16:55

Lori and I we we do a a lot of rentals every year. And 70% of our sales have come from our renters.

SPEAKER_05 17:04

And and from our landlords who have decided to sell after they've been renting from us.

SPEAKER_02 17:09

Why we focus on the rental business as well as obviously we do a lot of sales.

Andrew Doud 17:13

Yeah, and this is a great place. I mean, this has a a ton to offer for somebody that whether it's uh they rent it or buy it. I mean, it's a it's a beautiful house. It's got a great backyard. And great guest quarters and I like the lower level because it walks out to the pool and you have the gym and you have the separate kitchenette and bedroom and bathroom and sitting area. It's like its own place. Yeah. You know, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:35

Yeah.

Andrew Doud 17:36

So this is uh really well located.

SPEAKER_05 17:38

It's very close to East Hampton Village and also very close to Sag Harbor, so you get the benefit of both of those fabulous towns. And what a fireplace, man. Wow. It's lovely. It really is lovely. It's a good house. Nice high ceilings in the great room. Um, brand new bathrooms. All the bathrooms are redone, perfect condition, and it's pretty much it's there's it's not a project, however, and the pool is brand new.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

One year old with an electric uh cover, which he's very proud of it. Which he's very proud of the aunts. He loves that thing.

Andrew Doud 18:06

And uh and it's gated entrance. Which what what else says Hamptons? Like it feels very grand when you're driving in.

SPEAKER_05 18:13

And it's I I think it's perfectly priced, and we just again dropped it to 235. So come look at it. Okay.

Andrew Doud 18:18

That's a good deal. Um all right, let me shift over to Steve with a ballpark uh or I'm sorry, a big picture of the numbers.

Steve Glick 18:27

Big picture uh it was a good week in the Hamptons. 28 listings went into contract, 25 last year, increase 12%. Two years ago, there were 21 listings that went into contract, so an increase there of 33%. So a good week with the 28 transactions, two between 15 and 20, 3 between 5 and 10, 6 between 3 and 5, 7 between 2 and 3, 8 between 1 and 2, and 2 under a million. The dollar volume was 111 million dollars. Last year it was 76 million, increase there of 46%, and then another increase from two years ago was 70 million, so it's 59% increase there. 41 new listings came onto the market, so that increases the inventory by 13 listings. So the 41 new listings breakdown, one over 20 million, two between 15 and 20 million, two between 10 and 15, 9 between 5 and 10, 10 between 3 and 5, 4 between 2 and 3, 10 between 1 and 2, and 3 under a million. That's 27 listings under 5 million dollars that came onto the market. So that's really good to see. There's activity and new listings in old price categories. Inventory is at 1732 total listings, 1,372 active, and 360 in contract. So um great to see increase across the board on every category. So that's a good week. Uh as we round out April. You know, we're we just said, you know, May 1st is here uh this weekend, and there's a lot going on.

Andrew Doud 19:55

Do you feel that this this month, May, is like like a final push, or not to say a final push, but like a big push to get things uh sold, maybe not rented, but not really, because as we said before, a lot of people are out here for the summer visiting, visiting guests, you know, looking for houses and they're here, they're circulating around.

SPEAKER_05 20:13

They see things, you know. We advertise obviously uh in all the papers, but also, you know, there's open houses, people can come look and just explore while they're here.

SPEAKER_02 20:22

I think it's gonna be a little more busy because the weather's been so lousy.

Steve Glick 20:25

Yeah, it's gonna get warm. Once the weather breaks and it's warm consistently, you're gonna see it out here, it's gonna explode. And I also think it's busy, but it's still like a lot of rain.

SPEAKER_02 20:35

From the city of on a Saturday when it's raining and 42 degrees outside.

Steve Glick 20:39

I I agree.

SPEAKER_05 20:39

And depending on what is going on overseas, you know, a lot of people are hesitating to travel, you know. So uh we're hoping selfishly, you know, not that it has anything to do with worldview, but we're hoping selfishly that we will have a busy season out here, uh renting people renting and hopefully buying because you know it's it's a place to hang your hat.

SPEAKER_03 21:00

Yeah. Very good. Uh Steve, uh Dave, what do you got? What should we do this weekend?

Dave Rattiner 21:06

All right. Well, how about this one? You guys like psychics?

SPEAKER_03 21:10

Oh, yeah.

Andrew Doud 21:10

I did that once. It's kind of a trip. Is it? It's a little have you ever have you okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 21:15

I have, and let's do it. Let's go.

SPEAKER_05 21:17

Yeah.

Dave Rattiner 21:17

All right. Well, you know, uh Wave Social Wellness, which is a uh, you know, it's like a it's not a gym. There's like saunas in there and massages and things like this. It's right on Hill Street in Southampton.

SPEAKER_05 21:30

Okay.

Dave Rattiner 21:30

They are welcoming a psychic medium, Christina McMahon, for a day for a private 45-minute readings designed to offer clarity, insight, and meaningful connections. So you could go there and ask her, should I buy that Hampton's house?

SPEAKER_05 21:45

Exactly. That's such a great idea.

SPEAKER_02 21:46

Or should you buy that candy bargain?

Dave Rattiner 21:48

Exactly.

Andrew Doud 21:49

I see a rental in your future. Yeah.

Dave Rattiner 21:51

Exactly. Oh, that's nice. I thought that would be kind of fun to do. And then uh if you want to go out to West Hampton Beach Performing Arts Center, I On May 2nd, there is going to be a fundraiser. Fun. Fun Razor. Fun. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 22:08

Oh, fun. Drop the day. Yeah.

Dave Rattiner 22:12

So it, but it's a comedy show. It's a comedy show called We All Need a Laugh on Saturday night. Uh, as I said, at the West Ham Beach Performing Arts Center. And it's got some pretty famous comedians. Some of them have been on HBO, some of them tour in Vegas. Uh, one was voted Long Island's favorite comedian. It's Paul Anthony, Robert Canberg. You're my favorite comedian, Maria Walsh, Rich Walker, and Rob Falcone.

SPEAKER_05 22:35

Rich Walker? No.

Dave Rattiner 22:36

Rich Walker.

SPEAKER_05 22:36

Oh, Rich Walker. Okay.

Dave Rattiner 22:38

Yep. And tickets are like 50 bucks. So that's kind of nice. That's worth checking out. And then let's see. We also What night is that?

Steve Glick 22:46

What night is that?

Dave Rattiner 22:47

That's Saturday. Saturday night. Okay. Saturday night. Yeah. I like, thank God I remember because I closed the window. The thing I was reading, I closed. Anyway. So then May 2nd at St. Luke's Church, you have the in East Hampton. You have the Share the Harvest, which invites the community to celebrate the start of the spring season. And so they have a nice spring market where you can get, you know, the new thing is sourdough bread. Thank God. Thank God that's come full circle. I mean, uh it was the worst when everybody when no one would let you eat bread, you know.

SPEAKER_02 23:18

Now thank god, yes. I agree with that.

Dave Rattiner 23:20

Oh, thank god. Oh, thank god. You can get everybody's eating sourdough bread, it's everywhere. You could probably pick up sourdough bread there and uh and you know other stuff. Um, and then in Amiganset, you plants too, right? I do this all for you, Steve. I and then in Amiganset, you have the Amiganset Lifesaving and Coast Guard Station Museum opening day. So that's a mouthful. That is uh at 6 p.m. And guest speaker Hugh R. King is gonna be there. He's the East Hampton Town historian who is not crazy. He's hilarious, he's he's actually a bright guy. Okay, but he's really embraced this role of sort of the wacky, you know, East Hampton town historian, which is great. He's a good he's a good guy. He was actually, I think he was like Yeah, he was like my I think he was like my teacher in like fifth grade.

Steve Glick 24:08

Characters.

Dave Rattiner 24:08

Yeah, he's a hundred percent in character. He will be there at 11 a.m. from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Um and you can you know meet some lifeguards and you know the museum is pretty cool there. It's right, it's beautiful, it's right by by by the beach there. So you could check that out to see a lot of diversity, a lot of diverse things.

SPEAKER_05 24:25

Is there a Long Island restaurant week coming up? Is that this week or next week? I think it's maybe this week. Is it this week?

Dave Rattiner 24:31

Yeah, and there's Long Island. Oh thanks. There's also Long Island Restaurant Week. No problem. There's also Long Israel, it's a good thing. You can visit, yep, you can visit Long Island Restaurant Week, literally Long Island Restaurant Week.com, uh, and you can view all the participating restaurants that are there.

SPEAKER_05 24:45

Yep.

Dave Rattiner 24:46

But you know, is it really so great?

SPEAKER_05 24:48

No, because I don't need to everything's still expensive.

Dave Rattiner 24:52

Like you just go where go where you want to go. Exactly. Go eat what you want. You gotta go where you want to go. Plus, always adding chicken is like an extra$20. You wanted meat? You want real chicken? That's an extra$80.

SPEAKER_02 25:07

Real meat's an extra$20. Yeah, yeah.

Dave Rattiner 25:10

Don't listen to me. The Long Island Restaurant Week is great. It's the best thing ever. So you could do that too. What's going on in Hamptons?

Andrew Doud 25:18

All right. Good. You guys good? Anything else to do? We're good. Thank you.

SPEAKER_05 25:21

No.

Andrew Doud 25:22

All right, we'll call that a podcast for the day. Everybody, have a great day, have a great weekend. I'm Andrew Dowd, and that is what's happening in New Hamptons. Thanks for joining us.