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jammed with people having a great time. Paris Hilton and Tommy Hilfiger however, were not among them. The Hampton Jitney, our great, on-time coach service between Manhattan and the Hamptons is doing a land-office business. They’ve had to put on more busses. If there are more busses on the road, there are fewer cars, except on weekends, when it is wallto-wall cars. If I had to guess, I would say these are not our usual summer people from Manhattan, with million dollar vacation homes, but folks from Bay Shore, Huntington and Patchogue, out for the day to take in the sights. The Blue Parrot, up a back alley off Main Street in East Hampton, has re-opened to the public. It was always a kind of secret hangout for surfers and intellectuals, but then it closed for three years, during which time Ralph Lauren announced it would be joined to the Polo store next door, but then he changed his mind. All sorts of celebs, paparazzi and hangers-on are now celebrating this joint. It has all of 10 tables. Welcome back, Parrotheads. Calvin Klein has torn down the old French castle on the ocean on Meadow Lane and is about to replace it with a home for himself that is less than half its size. This is a teardown, this castle? It’s a teardown to smaller. And it seems to be a trend. Incidentally, I am told that Klein intends to build an interim house on the property before he builds his final house. The interim house is to be a full-scale mockup of the final version. Maybe it will be out of cardboard, or studs and sails or fibreboard or something. Anyway, Klein
is going to build it, have his designer bring out all the furniture, install it in the mockup and show it to him. If he likes it fine, if not, there’ll be different furniture. Then that house gets torn down too, and finally he builds the real one, all glass and stone, designed by Michael Haverland. Joe Gurerra has opened his newest Citarella, which he calls the Mother Ship, right next door to Dan’s Papers on the Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton. The place is packed. Everybody eats. A few of the most successful restaurants in the Hamptons have been able to keep up their old prices. Bobby Van’s is among them. So is Nick and Toni’s. But those not on that exclusive list have dropped the prices on their menus and have offered great bargains. For example, One Ocean restaurant offers $6 hamburgers with all the trimmings, including fries, on Monday nights. It’s an astonishing experience when two people go out for dinner, fill their bellies with good food for $65 instead of $110 and hear the maitre d’ thank them very much and hope they will come again. A few years ago, a big cry went out from several hotels and restaurants that the foreign help they used to staff the hotels with had been cut back. The reason had to do with visas. In the past, the Bush administration had issued tens of thousands of temporary visas to foreign workers and because of that, arrangements could be made for workers from such places as Slovakia and Argentina to come here and fill in for the heavy traffic of summer. But then the Bush administration cut back on the number of visas
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