Montauk, New York Montauk is positioned in New York Montauk - Montauk Montauk / m nt k/ is a census-designated place (CDP) that includes the hamlet with the same name positioned in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, on the easterly end of the South Shore of Long Island.
The CDP encompasses an region that stretches approximately 12 miles from Napeague, New York to the easternmost tip of New York State at Montauk Light.
Located at the tip of the South Fork peninsula of Long Island, 118 miles (189 km) east of Midtown Manhattan, Montauk has been used as an Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Air Force base.
The Montauk Point Light was the first lighthouse in New York state and is the fourth earliest active lighthouse in the United States.
Montauk is a primary tourist destination and has six state parks.
It is especially famous for its fishing, claiming to have more world saltwater fishing records than any other port in the world. Located 20 miles (32 km) off the Connecticut coast, it is home to the biggest commercial and recreational fishing fleet in New York state. Montauk derives its name from the Montaukett tribe, an Algonquian-speaking tribe who lived in the area.
In 1614, Dutch explorer Adriaen Block encountered the tribe at Montauk Point, which he titled Hoeck van de Visschers, or "Point of the Fishers". Two decades later, in 1637, the Montauketts sided for their own protection with the English in the Pequot War in Connecticut.
In 1648 what would turn into the Town of Easthampton (first Maidstone) was sold to pioneer by the colony of Connecticut and the colony of New Haven while retaining the lands to the east, from the hills rising above where the first fort stood (Napeague, New York) to Montauk Point.
While some lands were protected in the agreements as forest land, for the most part all of Montauk was maintained by the townsmen as a private livestock and fisheries operation.
As a result of Montauk being directed as a livestock operation it is considered to be the earliest cattle ranch in the United States.
In 1660, Wyandanch's widow sold all of Montauk from Napeague to the tip of the island for 100 pounds to be paid in 10 equal installments of "Indian corn or good wampum at six to a penny". However, the tribe was to be permitted to stay on the land, to hunt and fish at will on the land, and to harvest the tails and fins of whales that washed up dead on the East Hampton shores.
The first hamlet of Montauk was assembled on Fort Pond Bay near what is now the train station for the Long Island Rail Road.
A judgment was entered in 1851 against the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of Easthampton, and on March 9, 1852, a deed to Montauk was given to plaintiffs Henry P.
Hedges and others, because their predecessors had contributed the cash to purchase Montauk from the native Montaukett Indians in the 1600s.
This deed caused the lands veiled by the Dongan Patent to be split, leaving the still unsettled lands at Montauk without government.
Less than one month later, on April 2, 1852, a state law was passed that incorporated the Proprietors Montauks, establishing the corporation of the trustees of Montauk and affirming its right to govern.
The most prominent of the six Montauk Association homes is Tick Hall, presently owned by entertainer Dick Cavett.
The first train from the Austin Corbin extension of the Long Island Rail Road pulled into Montauk in 1895, the territory having been bought in 1882.
Corbin prepared to turn Montauk into a "shortcut", saving a day each way for voyages between New York City and London: ships would dock at the Fort Pond Bay terminal and passengers would travel by rail to New York City at 60 miles per hour (97 km/h)).
Montauk Manor, assembled by Carl G.
Fisher as part of his universal to turn Montauk into the Miami Beach of the north In 1924, Robert Moses began condemning the Benson territory to establish state parks on either end of Montauk Hither Hills State Park in the west and Montauk Point State Park in the east.
The two parks were to be connected via the Montauk Point State Parkway.
He prepared to turn Montauk into the "Miami Beach of the North", a "Tudor village by the sea". His projects encompassed blasting a hole through the contaminating Lake Montauk to access Block Island Sound to replace the shallow Fort Pond Bay as the hamlet's port; establishing the Montauk Yacht Club and the Montauk Downs Golf Course; and building Montauk Manor, a luxury resort hotel; the Montauk Tennis Auditorium, which became a movie theater (and is now the Montauk Playhouse); and the six-story Carl Fisher Office Building (later the Montauk Improvement Building and now The Tower at Montauk, a residentiary condominium).
The 30 or so buildings Fisher put up between 1926 and 1932 were designed in the Tudor Revival style. Fisher had successfully advanced Miami Beach before beginning his Montauk project, but although he continued to pour his cash into the development, to the extent of $12 million in total, he eventually lost his fortune due to the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and most of his enterprises were shut down.
In the Great Hurricane of 1938, water flooded athwart Napeague, turning Montauk into an island.
During World War II the United States Navy bought most of the east end, including Montauk Manor, to turn it into a military base.
Several concrete bunker observation posts were assembled along the coast, including one immediately to the east of the Montauk Lighthouse.
In 1951, sport fisherman Frank Mundus began to lead charter fishing trips out of Lake Montauk, initially looking for bluefish but soon finding that fishing for sharks was more lucrative.
The sport of "monster fishing" became Montauk's signature draw.
On September 1, 1951, the Pelican, captained by Eddie Carroll, capsized in the shoals off Montauk Point, resulting in the deaths of 45 passengers and crew.
The 42-foot (13 m) Pelican was carrying 64 citizens , most of whom had taken the Fisherman's Special trains to the Montauk LIRR station from New York City.
After fishing in the Atlantic Ocean on the south side of Montauk for a several hours, it returned home, encountering engine trouble on the way.
The wreck was secured by fabled sport fisherman Frank Mundus and towed into Lake Montauk by the Coast Guard.
Two hundred of the homes, the biggest installation, were assembled at Culloden Point in Montauk In 1967, the United States Coast Guard announced plans to tear down the Montauk Lighthouse and replace it with a taller steel tower.
Montauk Friends of Olmsted Parks LLC, was established in 1994 to protect an extensive fitness of beaches and waterfront properties and roadways.
Skishers swim sometimes hundreds of yards from shore to water well over their heads, with their flippers and buoyancy of their wetsuits keeping them afloat. Montauk is also credited as the place of birth of "skishing", a combination of fishing, swimming, and water skiing. In August 2016 OCEARCH designated the waters off of Montauk and the rest of the South Shore of Long Island as a birthing ground for The Great White Shark.
Montauk has a borderline oceanic / humid subtropical climate (Cfa), under the Koppen climate classification, and using the 0 C (32 F) isotherm, is one of the northernmost locations in North America with this climate type.
The existence of the Atlantic Ocean brings warmer winters than inland areas of the same latitude as well as cooler springs and summers: despite an extensive urban heat island and warmer lows throughout much of the year, Manhattan, as compared to Montauk, averages twice as many days with a low reaching 10 F ( 12 C) or below. The monthly daily average temperature ranges from 32.3 F (0.2 C) in January to 72.4 F (22.4 C) in July.
Climate data for Montauk, New York (1981 2010 normals) A Fiberglas copy of the 3,427-pound (1,554 kg) 17-foot-long (5.2 m) Great White Shark on the Lake Montauk waterfront.
Montauk is considered a beach resort, using its position at the tip of Long Island to promote itself as "The Living End" or "The Last Resort" and turn into one of the busiest tourist locations inside the town of East Hampton.
Many of the Montauk hotels are only open April through November, some for shorter time periods, while a several serve fishermen and other customers year round, including the famed Gurney's Inn.
The Montauk station on the Long Island Rail Road provides train service along the Montauk Branch to other parts of Long Island and to New York City, and Hampton Jitney provides bus service to Manhattan.
The 10 - C joins the village with East Hampton, and the Amagansett, East Hampton and Montauk Long Island Rail Road stations on the Montauk Branch, and the cyclicly directed S94 joins the village with the Montauk Point Light.
Lake Montauk, a small bay on the north side of town, is home to a US Coast Guard station and a small fishing fleet, both commercial and recreational.
Six state parks are in Montauk.
Montauk Downs State Park Montauk Point State Park In addition, there is Montauk County Park and a several East Hampton parks and Nature Conservancy areas.
1964 The science fiction thriller The Flesh Eaters began shooting on locale in Montauk in 1962, when exterior sets and equipment suffered extensive damage from Hurricane Alma, halting production.
1982 In the film Deathtrap, thriller playwright Sidney Bruhl, played by Michael Caine, lives on Montauk, which he calls "the end of the line.
1997 Montauk is an meaningful locale in the film Commandments.
1991 In the debut episode of Fishing with John, host John Lurie takes guest Jim Jarmusch off the coast of Montauk to catch a shark.
1997 In the episode "The One At The Beach" in season 3 of the American sitcom Friends, the six friends go to Montauk to find out more about Phoebe Buffay's birth mother.
2011 2015 The fictional bar "The Stowaway" in Montauk is a central locale in the TV series Revenge.
1990 Billy Joel's song "The Downeaster Alexa", from his album Storm Front, tells the story of a Long Island fisherman's journey through Montauk Sound on his ship, titled after Joel's daughter.
2003 Long Island indie modern band Brand New describes a shipwreck a metaphor for a romantic break-up off the tip of Montauk Point' in the final song, "Play Crack the Sky", of their album, Deja Entendu.
2012 Rufus Wainwright wrote a song called "Montauk" which is dedicated to his daughter Viva and appears on his album Out of the Game 1974 Montauk is a novel by the Swiss writer Max Frisch which centers on the narrator's open relationship with Lynn, an American journalist.
Nichols and Peter Moon wrote a science fiction novel, The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, in which it was claimed the radar was used by the government to conduct time travel experiments.
2003 In the novel The Interpreter, by Suki Kim, the female protagonist Suzy Park visits Montauk, where the ashes of her parents have been committed to the sea.
1968 present The fictional Legion Academy, a training center for super-powered individuals run by the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st Centuries of the DC Universe is positioned at Montauk Point.
Montauk's old LIRR station home, now an art loggia The Montauk Community Presbyterian Church was assembled in 1927 Note the Tudor Revival architecture on the buildings behind it to the right, and the Tower at Montauk to the left.
The Tower at Montauk, originally the Carl Fisher Office Building Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Montauk "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Montauk CDP, New York".
The Narragansetts "would have exterminated the whole Montauk tribe if they had not received help from the white settlers." "Montauk Embraces Its Legacy" New York Times (August 11, 2002) "Station Name: NY MONTAUK AP".
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