Photo by David Lion Rattiner
DAN'S PAPERS, January 11, 2008 Page 21 www.danshamptons.com
HYT ME Estate.
No Party for You Southampton Cracks Down on Revelers’“Nightclub” at a Private Home By David Lion Rattiner A house party on New Year’s Eve is always fun. It’s especially fun when it takes place at a mansion on Deerfield Road in Water Mill called the “HYT ME Estate.” It is even more fun when there are endless drinks, Manhattan socialites, buses to bring you anywhere you want to go and gourmet food buffet. However, the Southampton Town Board stopped this New Year’s Eve party from happening. Talk about party poopers. The HYT ME Estate, after months of preparation for a New Year’s party, was given notice that they could not have more then ten people in the five-bedroom house on New Year’s Eve. Was there justice in this decision? How could
the Town of Southampton do such a thing to a New Year’s Eve celebration? What right do they have? Could they have stopped your party or mine? Just what is going on here? Well don’t go jumping to conclusions so quickly. The Town of Southampton is not a bunch of party poopers who never got invited to the “cool” New Year’s Eve party while growing up and now want payback. What actually happened is that the Town of Southampton is not allowing a nightclub business to operate in a residential neighborhood. Last summer, over Memorial Day weekend, the HYT ME Estate threw a party where hundreds of people showed up, and among those people was actress Heather Graham. For about
$200 you too could go to one of the many parties they threw and live the high life at a Hamptons mansion for a night. It wasn’t for charity, it wasn’t a one time special event, it was just one party after another. All of the applications would be mailed in to confuse the town and at first the Town would approve almost everything. But as the parties became more and more frequent, the Town started to take notice and the violations started to be issued. A man known as Birdie Williams founded the company that owns the HYT ME Estate. HYT ME stands for Hungry Young Talent Management and Entertainment and has very little to do with the Britney Spears song “Hit Me (continued on the next page)
CROOKS KNOCK OVER A TRUCK AND HIT THE GAS By Dan Rattiner Not long ago, if someone told you about a “heist” where the bad guys “knock over a truck,” the truck they would be referring to would be a Brink’s truck filled with money just after it had been loaded up at a bank. Not anymore. Last Tuesday, some thieves stole a truck fully loaded with fuel oil from the All Island Fuel lot in Hauppauge in Center Moriches by crashing it through the gate. It contained 1,500 gallons of oil, and when it was found on Wednesday afternoon in Islandia about twenty miles away, it was empty. The oil stolen was worth $5,250. On Thursday evening, employees of Hirsch Fuels in Hauppauge reported that a 1999
International Harvester truck filled with fuel was stolen from their lot that morning by someone who simply drove it off the lot. It was found later that day, but its 2,100 gallons were gone. The loss was $7,350. Then, on Friday at 11 p.m., a truck filled with 2,800 gallons of fuel was stolen off the lot of Consumer Comfort Group in Bohemia. And it was caught on a video surveillance tape, which Tony Esposito, the owner, turned over to the police. It shows three men in a small car waiting in the lot behind his office, as his driver pulls in with the fully loaded truck to leave it there for the night. The driver gets out, climbs into his car and goes home for the night — tomorrow is
another day — and then two men get out of the white car, jump start the truck and drive it off the lot with a third man in the white car following. The truck was later found in the area, but without all the fuel oil, of course. The police are particularly concerned about these heists, which they say are a new development, and have apparently been sparked by the increase in the value of a barrel of oil, which touched $100 three days ago. The total worth of the oil stolen this past week on eastern Long Island is in excess of $20,000. “Liquid gold,” Esposito told a reporter. “I’d like to get them before the police. I’m going to (continued on the next page)