NORTH FORK
NEIGHBORHOODS
Housing stats
Beach reads
Running down the numbers
Cultures clash in “Orient”
First quarter of 2015 Median sales price Number of sales Homes for sale Days on market
First quarter of 2014 $465,000 134 494 153
Avg. sales price Number of sales Homes for sale Days on market
$436,000 109 597 163
Source: Miller Samuel
Fast facts
A hefty stove, paying cash on the North Fork and an impossibly tiny school 7,000
Weight in pounds of the pizza oven imported from Naples, Italy at the new PeraBell Food Bar East in Riverhead
25%
Percentage of sales on the North Fork that are cash deals, compared to 75 percent in the Hamptons
2
Sources: northforker.com, hamptons.com, wsj.com
Pricey digs
Getting away to the North Fork
ADDRESS 5250 Vanston Road, Cutchogue
TYPE/SIZE Eight bedrooms, five+ baths
ysterious events are underway in “Orient,” Christopher Bollen’s stylish new thriller set in the North Fork enclave where working class village life is being shaken up by wealthy, artistic newcomers, not to mention a string of murders and a strange animal corpse found on the beach. A stranger in town, who is quickly enveloped in a cloud of suspicion, teams up with an Orient native to clear his name and find the real killer.
Food
Total number of sudents in the sixth grade graduating class at New Suffolk Common School, an actual little red schoolhouse that has 17 students total
PRICE $12,400,000
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DOCK IT This 1920s estate has 1,000 feet of beach frontage and a boat basin on the bay.
One bite makes you bigger
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he East End Mushroom Company, the largest ’shroom grower on Long Island and supplier to the area’s high-end restaurants and farm stands, recently opened a new state-ofthe-art indoor growing facility on Cox Lane in Cutchogue and launched retail sales for the first time, according to northforker.com. Mushrooms such as shiitake, blue oyster, king oyster and cremini are grown hydroponically, so there is no dirt to deal with. Open to the public from 10 am to 2 pm, Thursday through Saturday.
Arts
Hitting opera high notes
Cristina Fontanelli
PRICE $2,950,000 ADDRESS 2704 Long Creek Drive, Southold
TYPE/SIZE Four bedrooms, two+ baths; 3,500 square feet
Source: StreetEasy
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he 25th annual Opera of the Hamptons returns to Duck Walk Vineyard North, 4435 Main Road in Southold on Saturday July 18 at 7 pm for an evening with award-winning singer Cristina Fontanelli and guest artists. The event takes place in Duck Walk Vineyard’s tasting room and commemorates Duck Walk and Pindar vineyards founder Dr. Herodotus “Dan” Damianos who passed away last year. Tickets are on sale at Brown Paper Tickets for $47-$57 and at the door for $59.