Billionaire Hit With Stop-Work Order After Plan To Erase Town Road In Amagansett Is Foiled - 27 East

Billionaire Hit With Stop-Work Order After Plan To Erase Town Road In Amagansett Is Foiled

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East Hampton has imposed a stop-work order on a the clearing of an Amagansett property that has been the subject of a legal and historical dispute over an unimproved roadway that appears to cut across the land.

East Hampton has imposed a stop-work order on a the clearing of an Amagansett property that has been the subject of a legal and historical dispute over an unimproved roadway that appears to cut across the land. Kyril Bromley

Aerial photos that purport to show that the currently unimproved portion of Cross Highway was in fact cleared and used as a road in the 1930s and 1940s.

Aerial photos that purport to show that the currently unimproved portion of Cross Highway was in fact cleared and used as a road in the 1930s and 1940s.

Aerial photos that purport to show that the currently unimproved portion of Cross Highway was in fact cleared and used as a road in the 1930s and 1940s.

Aerial photos that purport to show that the currently unimproved portion of Cross Highway was in fact cleared and used as a road in the 1930s and 1940s.

Members of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society have criticized the posting of the property, which they say Mr. Novogratz does not own and is part of the Paumanok Path.

Members of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society have criticized the posting of the property, which they say Mr. Novogratz does not own and is part of the Paumanok Path.

authorMichael Wright on Dec 2, 2019
East Hampton Town has slapped a stop-work order on the owner of an Amagansett property whose boundary with a “paper road” has been the subject of dispute and legal attempts... more

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