Montauk, NY Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Blustery, wind-battered MONTAUK , beyond Amagansett on the farthest tip of Long Island, never quite made it as a resort; plans to develop it were shattered by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. This town isn't chic or quaint, but real people actually live here and it provides access to the rocky wilds of Montauk Point , whose rare beauty figures in all the tourist brochures. A lighthouse – New York state's oldest, dating from 1796 – forms an almost symbolic finale to this stretch of the American coast. Motels in the town center offer fairly priced rooms (a rarity in the eastern end of Long Island); rates … more »