Every guide lists what exists. This is the record of what stopped existing — 48 closures and 10 listings that never existed at all — dated the day a sweep recorded it, reason and source kept verbatim.
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2026-08-09 · Sag Harbor · closed
NOT A CAFE — removed from breakfast.json 2026-08-09 on Jordi's first-hand report: it is not a coffee place (anymore), even though Google Maps still categorizes it as one. The entry's only provenance was the v6.250.2 Google Places API sweep ('Editorial pass pending'), with no website, phone, or Instagram ever verified — i.e. the exact case where Maps' category is the sole and now-wrong source. Listed here so the Places sweep cannot re-import it into breakfast; if it belongs anywhere it would be /nightlife or /restaurants, which should only happen through a fresh, sourced entry.
2026-08-02 · Riverhead · never existed
PHANTOM — never verified to exist. Removed from iglesias.json 2026-08-02. Its cited source was the bare https://www.drvc.org, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, which lists only Catholic parishes and could not have been the source for a Pentecostal congregation; the date on it was 2026-04-07, the scripts/patch-seed-sources.ts bulk-write. It carried no street address (the bare 'Riverhead, NY'), no phone and contactGap:true, while asserting a Sunday 10:00am and Wednesday 7:30pm service. Three independent registers of Riverhead-area places of worship, all checked 2026-08-02, agree no such congregation exists on the East End: (1) Google Places nearby search, 20 places of worship within 8 km of Riverhead centre; (2) Google Places text search across Suffolk and Long Island, whose nearest 'Casa de Oración' results are Uniondale, Brentwood, Huntington Station, the Bronx and Bridgeport CT — none east of Brookhaven; (3) OpenStreetMap Overpass, 28 amenity=place_of_worship in the Riverhead bbox. Riverhead's real Spanish-language Pentecostal congregations are Iglesia Maranatha Ministerios Ebenezer (556 E Main St, now corrected in iglesias.json), Iglesia Cristiana La Nueva Jerusalén, Luz En Tu Senda and Iglesia Alfa y Omega.
2026-07-31 · Sag Harbor · closed
CLOSED - the Sag Harbor Golden Pear at 111 Main Street was sold to Goldberg's Famous Bagels and is now a Goldberg's. Two independent signals: (1) 27east.com carries both "Golden Pear Cafe Sag Harbor Sells to Goldberg's Bagels" and "Goldberg's Famous Bagels Acquires Golden Pear in Sag Harbor". (2) Goldberg's own locations page, theoriginalgoldbergsbagels.com/locations, lists "Sag Harbor Village - 111 Main St, Sag Harbor, NY 11963, (631) 899-4834" among its 14 shops - the same street address this record carried. Corroborating: the Golden Pear's own locations page lists only Southampton and East Hampton, and the October 2025 Southampton Press report on the Bridgehampton closure describes those two as the company's remaining locations. The address is still live as a breakfast venue on this site under data/breakfast.json id goldbergs-sag-harbor. Removed from data/breakfast.json 2026-07-31, where it was still listed as a Golden Pear open daily 6:30am-6pm.
2026-07-31 · Greenport · closed
CLOSED - four signals, none of them a guess. (1) The placeId this record stored, ChIJK5DJjlCf6IkRhTxq9bDLlMg, no longer resolves from the Places API. (2) A Places text search for 'The Gallery Cafe Greenport NY' and for '437 Main Street Greenport' returns no business of that name anywhere in Greenport. (3) gallerycafeny.com, stored as both website and sourceUrl, 301s off the host entirely - to eastlansingmenus.com, then caddischronicles.com, then antiqueacrosstexas.com, a chain of unrelated parked domains. The operator's site is gone. (4) A different business, 'cafe 75', now sits at 441 Main St, 12 m from the pin this record carried. Whether cafe 75 is a rebrand or a successor is NOT established and no record has been merged into it. Removed from data/breakfast.json and data/nightlife.json 2026-07-31.
2026-07-31 · Southampton · closed
CLOSED - Places reports the stored placeId CLOSED_PERMANENTLY and carries no website for it, and msmsouthampton.com - stored as both website and sourceUrl - no longer serves the market: it returns a 'Redirecting...' shim whose only content is an ad-injection script (google-ad / prebid / dfp class names). The record already carried closedPermanently:true, so /breakfast hid it, but /breakfast/<slug> still generated a detail page linking readers to that domain under the words 'official site'. Removed from data/breakfast.json 2026-07-31.
2026-07-31 · East Hampton · closed
CLOSED - Places reports the stored placeId CLOSED_PERMANENTLY, and hampton-eats.com is no longer this business's domain: it answers 404 'Page not found', and its TLS certificate is issued for 11thstbar.com, so the host now belongs to someone else. Same shape as Main Street Market - flagged closed, hidden from the list page, still generating a detail page that linked out. Removed from data/breakfast.json 2026-07-31.
2026-07-31 · Montauk · closed
Not a closure but a retired name: the Atlantic Terrace motel at 21 Oceanview Terrace now trades as Marram Montauk. atlanticterrace.com 301s to marrammontauk.com, and the leftover Google listing has no phone, no reviews and an aggregator URL for a website, pinned 47 m from Marram's. It was shipping as a second, separate hotel on /stay.
2026-07-31 · Water Mill · closed
RELOCATED - not a Hamptons event since 2018. The Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance's own announcement says it 'hosted Super Saturday in the Hamptons for the past 20 years' and that 'our iconic event will move to Manhattan in September 2018'. Second, independent signal: OCRA's live events page lists six upcoming 2026 events (Ovarian Fitness D.C., IGCC, Ovarian Cycle Rio Grande Valley, Ovarian Fitness Orlando, Fitness & Fight on the Virginia Capital Trail, Rivkin Symposium) and Super Saturday is not among them; a site search returns nothing later than the 2018 relocation notice. We had it as a peak-summer South Fork designer-garage-sale benefit with $450-$650 and $1,000-$2,500 tiers cited to the bare danspapers.com homepage. Removed from data/social-calendar.json 2026-07-31.
2026-07-31 · Bridgehampton · closed
CLOSED - the public polo season ended in 2015 and we were still selling it as a current summer scene. The Southampton Press reported it directly: 'After 20 Years, Bridgehampton Polo Club Will End Run Of Public Matches At Two Trees Farm' (Cailin Riley, May 25, 2015), whose lede notes the high-goal matches had been 'one of the main attractions for party-goers' for two decades. Second, independent signal: bridgehamptonpoloclub.com - the domain this record cited, and the one scripts/patch-seed-sources.ts bulk-stamped across data/polo.json - no longer serves the club at all; it 301s to wvvh.com, the site of Video Voice, Inc. / WVVH-TV Hamptons Television, which carries no polo content. 27east's newest match of the phrase 'Bridgehampton Polo' since 2015 is a 2022 fashion column, not season coverage. We listed 'Field viewing - often complimentary with advance reservation' and a '$500-$2,500' sponsor tent, both cited to the bare danspapers.com homepage. Removed from data/social-calendar.json 2026-07-31.
2026-07-31 · Bridgehampton · closed
Not a bar and has not been one since the 1700s. The Southampton Press: "A historical marker at the spot where Wick's Tavern stood in Bridgehampton" — the 2510 Montauk Highway parcel is "the site of the former Wick's Tavern", state-recognised as a historic place and approved for a 9,030 sq ft retail building once leased to CVS. Google's own listing classifies the placeId as a Historical landmark with no phone, no website and "Open 24 hours", and no NYS liquor licence exists at the address. The Places sweep read the marker as a tavern. Removed from data/nightlife.json 2026-07-31.
2026-07-31 · Greenport · closed
A phantom Greenport location. The stored placeId no longer resolves in Google Places at all (404, not CLOSED_PERMANENTLY — the listing was deleted), rgny.com serves a parking lander, and the NYS licence register puts the only RGNY in the state at 6149 Sound Ave, RIVERHEAD (farm winery 0032-21-122171), not at 58775 County Rd 48, Greenport — which is Sound View Greenport's address, as an earlier pass noted. The record also carried no phone. RGNY the winery is real; this Greenport listing was not. Removed from data/nightlife.json 2026-07-31. — 2026-07-31: the bare alias "RGNY" was removed from this entry. It matched on name alone and so blocked the REAL winery, which is licensed and operating at 6025 Sound Ave, Riverhead (SLA: IBF Winery LLC dba RGNY, 6149 Sound Ave, active to 2027-03-31) and is now in data/wine.json as rgny-vineyard with placeId ChIJwyZyvp-O6IkRHYUQPaZTrCk. The Greenport phantom stays blocked by its slug, its name "Rgny winery" and the town-qualified aliases. Do not re-add the bare alias: it cannot distinguish the phantom from the real venue.
2026-07-31 · Mattituck · closed
CLOSED, on three independent signals. The stored placeId no longer resolves in Google Places (404 — the listing was deleted). alewifebrewing.com resolves to a Namecheap parking address and refuses every connection; alewife.beer answers with Wix's "ConnectYourDomain Error" page. And the NYS licence register holds no active licence anywhere in the state matching "Alewife" — a brewery and taproom cannot trade without one. Removed from data/nightlife.json 2026-07-31 (9095 Sound Ave).
2026-07-31 · East Hampton · closed
CLOSED, on four independent signals. Google Places Details for the restaurant's own listing at 31 Race Ln — phone (631) 324-5022, the number this record carried — returns businessStatus CLOSED_PERMANENTLY. Camp Rubirosa (camprubirosa.com, (631) 825-8105) now trades at 31 Race Ln. racelanerestaurant.com has lapsed and redirects to melodicdistraction.com, an unrelated site. And the NYS licence register holds no restaurant licence for Race Lane anywhere in Suffolk — only Race Lane Liquors, a separate retail store at 21 Race Ln — while this record's own blurb advertised a full bar. The placeId the record stored, ChIJ-Up7igO76IkRqZ-MfOmgtVI, is Google's entry for the street itself (types: route), which is why four earlier sweeps saw no closure. Removed from data/restaurants.json 2026-07-31. Successor filed 2026-08-14: Camp Rubirosa is now a record in data/restaurants.json (id camp-rubirosa, placeId ChIJGRKR3jS76IkRuuRrXwfPiBA), verified against camprubirosa.com/location/camp-rubirosa — which publishes no telephone number, so the (631) 825-8105 above is not carried onto the successor record.
2026-07-31 · Greenport · closed
CLOSED, on four independent signals. Google Places Details for the placeId this record carried returns businessStatus CLOSED_PERMANENTLY. northforkoyster.com no longer resolves at all — curl fails at DNS, not at HTTP, so this is a lapsed domain rather than a dead page. A Places text search for "North Fork Oyster Company, 300 Main Street, Greenport" returns Little Creek Oyster Farm & Market and Widows Hole Oyster Co instead, i.e. Google no longer holds it as a distinct trading business at that address. And the NYS liquor register (9s3h-dpkz) shows AMERICAN BEECH RESTAURANT LLC holding the active Restaurant and two Additional Bar licences at 300 MAIN ST, expiring 2027-10-31 and 2028-10-31, with no active licence for North Fork Oyster anywhere in the state — a different operator now trades at the address. Removed from data/oysters.json and from src/lib/oysters-coords.ts, dropping both to 15.
2026-07-31 · East Hampton · closed
Montauk party boat, gone. Three signals, all read 2026-07-31. (1) Google Places holds the Marlin fleet's boat as CLOSED_PERMANENTLY at 470 West Lake Drive under the name "Marlin V", with phone (631) 668-2818 — the exact number this site listed for Marlin VI. (2) marlinvi.com is NXDOMAIN. (3) marlinfleet.com still resolves but now redirects to ebbtidefishing.com, and Ebb Tide Fishing is OPERATIONAL at the same berth (Salivar's Dock, 470 West Lake Drive) on the same phone number; its site never mentions the Marlin fleet. The dock and the phone line carried on under a new boat, the Marlin did not. The address this site carried — "Montauk Marine Basin, 426 West Lake Drive" — was wrong too; 426 is Miss Montauk. Removed from data/adventures.json (fishing-montauk operators) and data/on-the-water.json.
2026-07-31 · Southampton · closed
No evidence this charter ever traded, and none that it trades now. sailawaysagharbor.com is NXDOMAIN — no DNS record at all. The placeId this site carried for it, ChIJsaLEqzq96IkR0k0mF0wYO38, resolves to Sail Hamptons at 37 Wharf Street — a different, operating business — so the existence audits were reading Sail Hamptons' OPERATIONAL status and passing. Three Google Places text searches return Sail Hamptons, Sailacat, Faraway and Valkyrie and never this name. Filed here rather than simply deleted so a later sweep cannot resurrect it. Removed from data/adventures.json (sail-sag-harbor operators) and data/on-the-water.json; the real Sag Harbor operator, Sag Harbor Sailing Inc. at 51 Pine Neck Avenue, was already listed alongside it.
2026-07-31 · Southampton · closed
The cited source is now somebody else's business in another state. diamondtail.com resolves and returns HTTP 200 — which is why the dead-link checks passed it — but the page is "Diamond Tail: Discover Elevated Living in Placitas", a residential land development outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. There is no yacht charter on it. Google Places has no record of a Diamondtail Yacht Charters anywhere in Sag Harbor; searches return Sailacat, Sail Hamptons and Valkyrie. The entry carried no placeId, so no existence sweep had ever been able to check it. Removed from data/adventures.json (sail-sag-harbor operators) and data/on-the-water.json.
2026-07-31 · East Hampton · closed
A Montauk charter that is not in Montauk. captskipsfishingcharters.com is NXDOMAIN. The placeId this site carried, ChIJ_aX9zS1B6IkRy-zLm_Fx52E, resolves to Captain Skippy Charters on Harbor Beach Road in Mt Sinai — a real fishing charter, but on Long Island's North Shore roughly 60 miles from Montauk and under a different name. That borrowed placeId is why the entry read as OPERATIONAL, and why it also carried a seven-day "Open 24 hours" table, the standard Places placeholder. No Places search returns a Capt. Skip's in Montauk. Removed from data/adventures.json (fishing-montauk operators) and data/on-the-water.json.
2026-07-31 · Southampton · closed
An annual benefit that has not been held since 2019, still listed on /social-calendar with a date ("Late June"), a venue ("Southampton Arts Center or private estate") and a price ladder ($500-$1,000 individual, $7,500-$25,000 table) that the American Heart Association has never published. Its eventUrl, https://www2.heart.org/site/TR?pg=informational&fr_id=9472, redirects to www2.heart.org/site/PageServer?pagename=page_not_found. No Hamptons Heart Ball page exists anywhere on heart.org, and the AHA's own New York affiliate page states "There are no upcoming events in your area at this time." 27east — which covered the ball every June from the 18th annual in 2014 through the 23rd in 2019 — has published nothing about it since "Heart Ball Held On Saturday" on June 24, 2019. Neither source announces a discontinuation; the finding is the event's absence from the organiser's own calendar plus seven years of local-press silence. Removed from data/social-calendar.json. The record's placeId was Southampton Arts Center, a live venue, so it is deliberately not carried over here.
2026-07-31 · Bridgehampton · closed
Listed on /polo as a ticketed, publicly accessible "mid-week feature day highlighting Long Island riders," cited to https://www.newsday.com/sports/hampton-classic, which 404s. The Hampton Classic Horse Show itself is very much alive — August 23-30, 2026 at 240 Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton — and is unaffected. What does not exist is this named day. The show's own "Daily Highlights & Happenings" page walks the full week day by day (Opening Day Sunday, Monday with free admission and Adoption Day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Kids' Day Saturday, Grand Prix Sunday) and never mentions it; the sitemap lists dedicated pages only for Adoption & Animal Welfare Day and Kids' Day; and a full-archive search of 27east, which covers the Classic every year, returns zero articles for it. The nearest real thing is the Long Island Show Series for Riders with Disabilities Finals, which runs on the Monday, is a competition final rather than a feature day, and is not mid-week. Removed from data/gilded.json. The record's placeId was the Classic's live show grounds, so it is deliberately not carried over here.
2026-07-31 · Bridgehampton · closed
Listed on /gilded as a ticketed, publicly accessible "kickoff party of Classic week tied to the Grand Prix field tent," cited to the bare homepage https://www.jameslanepost.com/, which supports nothing. The Hampton Classic Horse Show itself is very much alive — August 23-30, 2026 at 240 Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton — and is unaffected. What does not exist is this named day. The show's own "Daily Highlights & Happenings" page walks the full week day by day (Opening Day Sunday, Monday with free admission and Adoption Day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Kids' Day Saturday, Grand Prix Sunday) and never mentions it; the sitemap lists dedicated pages only for Adoption & Animal Welfare Day and Kids' Day; and a full-archive search of 27east, which covers the Classic every year, returns zero articles for it. Opening Day Sunday is described in full on that page as a competition and shopping day, with no evening party. Removed from data/gilded.json. The record's placeId was the Classic's live show grounds, so it is deliberately not carried over here.
2026-07-31 · East Hampton · closed
No such club. Listed as a private cabana club on Atlantic Avenue founded 1932, cited only to the East Hampton Star homepage. Four registers disagree: the NYS liquor authority lists nine club premises in East Hampton and Amagansett (Maidstone x4, Devon Yacht, South Fork Country, East Hampton Golf, Star Island Yacht, The Reform Club) and none is a beach club or on Atlantic Avenue; ProPublica's IRS index has beach clubs at Quantuck, Water Mill and Westhampton but none in East Hampton or Amagansett; OpenStreetMap has no feature named Beach Club between East Hampton and Montauk; and data/name-mismatches.json already scored it 0.55 against 'The Beach Club at Gurney's Montauk', a different business 30 km away. Atlantic Avenue is also in Amagansett (11930), not East Hampton (11937). Removed from gilded.json as never-verified rather than closed.
2026-07-31 · Southampton · closed
Was filed in gilded.json as 'Carbone Beach' in East Hampton Village. Carbone Beach is Major Food Group's Miami Beach event; Google Places puts it at 49 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. The only Hamptons Carbone was at 230 Elm Street, Southampton, and Places returns CLOSED_PERMANENTLY for it. 230 Elm Street now carries NYS liquor licences held by RSA Catering LLC dba Elegant Affairs, and the register holds no Carbone licence anywhere in Suffolk County — the only one in New York State is 181 Thompson Street, Manhattan.
2026-07-31 · Southampton · closed
Closed to the public. Four independent signals, all checked 2026-07-31: shinnecockmuseum.org returns Cloudflare 520 on apex and www, http and https; shinnecockmuseum.com (the domain Google and OpenStreetMap both hold for it) no longer resolves at all; Google Places reports CLOSED_PERMANENTLY; and the Shinnecock Indian Nation's own 42-page site sitemap has no museum page, listing only a Cultural Resources department and a fundraiser for "museum revitalization". That fundraiser is why this is filed as closed-to-the-public rather than gone: if the Nation reopens it, delete this record rather than treating it as settled. The Nation's live public programme is the Annual Powwow, now in groups-directory.json as shinnecock-powwow.
2026-07-31 · Montauk · closed
No longer trading. Four independent signals, all checked 2026-07-31: ritasstables.com has no DNS record at all (NXDOMAIN); Google Places returns nothing for "Rita's Stable Montauk" or for the stored phone 631-668-5453, while the one real Montauk trail-ride operator, Deep Hollow Ranch, resolves immediately - so this is absence, not an API gap; OpenStreetMap lists no stable or horse_riding site in Montauk; and 27east's last coverage is 2008, headlined "High costs may force Montauk stable to close", with a follow-up describing owner Rita Foster "struggling in the last few years to keep the farm". The barn was real - a Montauk Highway fixture of 30+ years - but the listing was seeded 2026-04-07 with the wrong address ("West Lake Drive"; the press places it on Montauk Highway), a slug naming Rita Crosby rather than owner Rita Foster, and a placeId (ChIJmdUtnrWt6IkR0s25Bx-6m_A) that is Deep Hollow Ranch's, at name-match score 0.
2026-07-30 · East Hampton · never existed
PHANTOM — never verified to exist. Removed from mercados.json 2026-07-30. All 9 records in that file cited https://east-end-guide.vercel.app (this site) as their source, under the label "Operator websites"; both were bulk-injected by scripts/patch-seed-sources.ts and no operator page was ever opened. Three independent checks agree the name does not exist at this location: (1) NYS Dept of Agriculture & Markets licensed Retail Food Store registry; (2) live exact-phrase web search, which returns "too few matches"; (3) the Google Places pass recorded in data/name-mismatches.json, which matched a differently-named business. East Hampton's 32 state-licensed food stores include no business by this name; the Latin market there is Mitad del Mundo, 106-108 N Main St. Google Places instead returned "Mitad del Mundo Express - GROCERY".
2026-07-30 · Southampton · never existed
PHANTOM — never verified to exist. Removed from mercados.json 2026-07-30. All 9 records in that file cited https://east-end-guide.vercel.app (this site) as their source, under the label "Operator websites"; both were bulk-injected by scripts/patch-seed-sources.ts and no operator page was ever opened. Three independent checks agree the name does not exist at this location: (1) NYS Dept of Agriculture & Markets licensed Retail Food Store registry; (2) live exact-phrase web search, which returns "too few matches"; (3) the Google Places pass recorded in data/name-mismatches.json, which matched a differently-named business. No 'Tiendita' is licensed anywhere on the East End; the 7 statewide are in NYC and Valatie. Google Places instead returned "Tiendita Latina Latin Grocery".
2026-07-30 · Riverhead · never existed
PHANTOM — never verified to exist. Removed from mercados.json 2026-07-30. All 9 records in that file cited https://east-end-guide.vercel.app (this site) as their source, under the label "Operator websites"; both were bulk-injected by scripts/patch-seed-sources.ts and no operator page was ever opened. Three independent checks agree the name does not exist at this location: (1) NYS Dept of Agriculture & Markets licensed Retail Food Store registry; (2) live exact-phrase web search, which returns "too few matches"; (3) the Google Places pass recorded in data/name-mismatches.json, which matched a differently-named business. 'Super Latino' returns zero licensed food stores in all of New York State. Google Places instead returned "Sabor Latino".
2026-07-30 · Hampton Bays · never existed
PHANTOM — never verified to exist. Removed from mercados.json 2026-07-30. All 9 records in that file cited https://east-end-guide.vercel.app (this site) as their source, under the label "Operator websites"; both were bulk-injected by scripts/patch-seed-sources.ts and no operator page was ever opened. Three independent checks agree the name does not exist at this location: (1) NYS Dept of Agriculture & Markets licensed Retail Food Store registry; (2) live exact-phrase web search, which returns "too few matches"; (3) the Google Places pass recorded in data/name-mismatches.json, which matched a differently-named business. None of Hampton Bays' 21 licensed food stores carries this name. Google Places instead returned "Taqueria Mi Pueblito".
2026-07-30 · Riverhead · never existed
PHANTOM — never verified to exist. Removed from mercados.json 2026-07-30. All 9 records in that file cited https://east-end-guide.vercel.app (this site) as their source, under the label "Operator websites"; both were bulk-injected by scripts/patch-seed-sources.ts and no operator page was ever opened. Three independent checks agree the name does not exist at this location: (1) NYS Dept of Agriculture & Markets licensed Retail Food Store registry; (2) live exact-phrase web search, which returns "too few matches"; (3) the Google Places pass recorded in data/name-mismatches.json, which matched a differently-named business. The only 'Bendicion' licensed in Suffolk County is Grocery La Bendicion, 126 South St, Greenport — a different town, and a grocery, not a bakery. Google Places instead returned "La Bendicion Bakery".
2026-07-30 · Bridgehampton · never existed
PHANTOM — never verified to exist. Removed from mercados.json 2026-07-30. All 9 records in that file cited https://east-end-guide.vercel.app (this site) as their source, under the label "Operator websites"; both were bulk-injected by scripts/patch-seed-sources.ts and no operator page was ever opened. Three independent checks agree the name does not exist at this location: (1) NYS Dept of Agriculture & Markets licensed Retail Food Store registry; (2) live exact-phrase web search, which returns "too few matches"; (3) the Google Places pass recorded in data/name-mismatches.json, which matched a differently-named business. None of Bridgehampton's 12 licensed food stores is Latin; the only businesses by this name are in the Bronx and in Homestead, Florida. Google Places instead returned "Parrilla Latina".
2026-07-30 · Sag Harbor · never existed
PHANTOM — never verified to exist. Removed from mercados.json 2026-07-30. All 9 records in that file cited https://east-end-guide.vercel.app (this site) as their source, under the label "Operator websites"; both were bulk-injected by scripts/patch-seed-sources.ts and no operator page was ever opened. Three independent checks agree the name does not exist at this location: (1) NYS Dept of Agriculture & Markets licensed Retail Food Store registry; (2) live exact-phrase web search, which returns "too few matches"; (3) the Google Places pass recorded in data/name-mismatches.json, which matched a differently-named business. None of Sag Harbor's 9 licensed food stores is a Latin deli; Cove Delicatessen, 283 Main St, is the one serving the Latino community. Google Places instead returned "Noyack Deli".
2026-07-30 · Montauk · never existed
PHANTOM — never verified to exist. Removed from mercados.json 2026-07-30. All 9 records in that file cited https://east-end-guide.vercel.app (this site) as their source, under the label "Operator websites"; both were bulk-injected by scripts/patch-seed-sources.ts and no operator page was ever opened. Three independent checks agree the name does not exist at this location: (1) NYS Dept of Agriculture & Markets licensed Retail Food Store registry; (2) live exact-phrase web search, which returns "too few matches"; (3) the Google Places pass recorded in data/name-mismatches.json, which matched a differently-named business. None of Montauk's 18 licensed food stores carries this name; the general market there is Montauk Market 805, 805 Montauk Hwy. Google Places instead returned "Montauk Market Café and Deli".
2026-07-30 · Westhampton · never existed
PHANTOM — never verified to exist. Removed from mercados.json 2026-07-30. All 9 records in that file cited https://east-end-guide.vercel.app (this site) as their source, under the label "Operator websites"; both were bulk-injected by scripts/patch-seed-sources.ts and no operator page was ever opened. Three independent checks agree the name does not exist at this location: (1) NYS Dept of Agriculture & Markets licensed Retail Food Store registry; (2) live exact-phrase web search, which returns "too few matches"; (3) the Google Places pass recorded in data/name-mismatches.json, which matched a differently-named business. None of Westhampton Beach's 14 licensed food stores carries this name. Google Places instead returned "Westhampton Beach Farmers Market At Village Green".
2026-07-30 · Southampton · closed
CLOSED — the operator says so on its own site. villagelatch.com serves exactly one sentence: "We have closed our doors...forever. We sincerely thank all the people who visited and stayed with us over the years." Two independent signals: (1) that operator announcement, and (2) the site is abandoned — HTTPS fails outright with a TLS handshake error so the page is only reachable over plain HTTP, and the footer copyright is frozen at "©1999-2015". Removed from data/stay.json 2026-07-30, where it had been listed as a live $$$ historic inn with tennis courts.
2026-07-30 · Southampton · closed
CLOSED - the operator runs two shops and Southampton is not one of them. Two independent signals: (1) Blue Duck Bakery Cafe's own contact page, fetched 2026-07-30, lists exactly two locations, Greenport (130 Front Street) and Southold (56275 Main Road), and refers to Southampton only in the past tense elsewhere on the site. (2) The NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets licensed Retail Food Store registry holds exactly two Blue Duck Bakery Cafe licences statewide, at those same two addresses, and none in Southampton. The registry does cover this operator and does cover Southampton bakeries - Tate's Bake Shop is licensed there - so the absence is meaningful rather than a gap in coverage. The domain previously cited for this record, blueduckbakerysouthampton.com, does not resolve. Removed from data/breakfast.json 2026-07-30, where it was listed at 30 Hampton Road, daily 6:30am-6pm.
2026-07-30 · Montauk · closed
CLOSED at its Montauk address — the operator says so on its own site. lynnshulahut.net's homepage is headed "The Hut Has Wanderlust / The bamboo bar has gone roaming," and its /copy-of-about page gives the fuller account: "while you won’t find us at our previous Montauk location this summer for reasons beyond our control... the bamboo bar is going mobile," bringing cocktails to private events, beach parties and weddings "across Long Island and beyond," and adds a detail the homepage doesn't: "we’re also exploring new future locations in both Montauk and Florida." The business still trades, but only as a travelling private-events bar — there is no longer a tiki bar at 364 W Lake Dr that anyone can walk into, and neither page publishes an address, phone or hours. Removed from data/nightlife.json 2026-07-30, where it was listed as a year-round Montauk venue at that address. If the Hut takes a fixed Montauk spot again this entry should be revived with a new address.
2026-07-30 · Montauk · closed
CLOSED_PERMANENTLY per Google Places; swalloweastrestaurant.com has lapsed and now serves an unrelated Vietnamese football blog
2026-07-30 · East Hampton · closed
CLOSED_PERMANENTLY per Google Places; a Places text search for the name in East Hampton returns no such business, and the record never had an operator website
2026-07-30 · Hampton Bays · closed
CLOSED_PERMANENTLY per Google Places; thewineroom.co returns WordPress.com 'domain connection not found'
2026-07-30 · Shelter Island · closed
CLOSED_PERMANENTLY per Google Places; isolany.com returns 404. Was cross-listed in nightlife, breakfast and restaurants
2026-07-30 · Cutchogue · closed
CLOSED_PERMANENTLY per Google Places; nofofrenchpicnic.com returns a Wix 'ConnectYourDomain' error
2026-07-30 · Sag Harbor · closed
CLOSED_PERMANENTLY per Google Places; espressodaasporto.com serves a BentoBox 'the Clover Hospitality website you were looking for is not here' placeholder on a certificate that expired 2023-06-25
2026-07-30 · Hampton Bays · closed
CLOSED_PERMANENTLY per Google Places; 336hamptonbays.com has lapsed and now serves an Italian online-casino affiliate site
2026-07-30 · Montauk · closed
Premises turned over. 440WLD, LLC holds a NYS restaurant licence at 440 W Lake Dr issued 2026-06-15 trading as Bar Lalo, and dukesmtk.com returns 'Site not found - this site is not published'. No active NYS licence in Suffolk County carries a Duke's DBA.
2026-07-29 · Bridgehampton · closed
Defunct. Exact closure date unknown — this is the date it was confirmed, not the date it closed. Two independent signals: (1) bridgehamptonpoloclub.com 301-redirects to wvvh.com, the site of WVVH-TV Hamptons Television, which mentions polo nowhere — the operator has given up the domain; (2) the club appears nowhere in the USPA's club registry (238 records in the interactive club search), whose only East End member club is The Hamptons Polo Club at 206 Millstone Rd, Water Mill. Was the cited sourceUrl for 10 of the 11 entries in data/polo.json until 2026-07-29. Recorded by name only, with no slug: the slug key also drives build-search-index's exclusion list, and gilded.json carries three Bridgehampton-polo history records — dropping one of the three from search while keeping the others would be worse than keeping all three.
2026-07-28 · Southold · closed
CLOSED_PERMANENTLY per Google Places; bhavanaberries.com returns 'Squarespace - Website Expired'. Cornell Cooperative Extension's pick-your-own list still carries it, but that page was last updated 2024-05-31.
2026-07-22 · Montauk · closed
Renamed, not shut: 27east (2026-07-22) reports that what was an extension of Inlet at Gosman's 'has been newly coined the Lobster House and Clam Bar', 'inspired by beloved favorites from the former Inlet Cafe and Clam Bar'. The successor trades at the same dock and is listed separately. No Inlet Cafe licence exists in the NYS register for Montauk; 484 W Lake Dr is licensed to Topside At Gosman's LLC.
2026-04-19 · Sag Harbor · closed
CLOSED - closed abruptly in April 2026 after 27 years. Two independent signals: (1) Dan's Papers, published 2026-04-21, "Estia's Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor Closes Abruptly After 27 Years" - owner Colin Ambrose confirmed to the paper that the restaurant had been sold to SunLife Organics, a California juice and smoothie chain, after efforts to sell the business and the property together failed; the sale required the building to be vacated, closing the restaurant that Sunday. (2) The operator's own site is gone: estias.com answers HTTP 503 and serves a bare placeholder titled "Adios" containing nothing but a name-and-email form. Removed from data/breakfast.json 2026-07-30, where it was still listed as open daily 7:30am-3pm. NOTE: a second copy of this venue remains in data/restaurants.json (id estias-little-kitchen), which is outside this worker's scope and still needs removing.
2026-04-10 · Sag Harbor · closed
CLOSED_PERMANENTLY per Google Places; flagged v6.68, v6.95, v6.150. Re-checked 2026-08-05: Places Details for the same placeId still returns businessStatus CLOSED_PERMANENTLY. wolfferkitchen.com now 301-redirects to christiansbywolffer.com, which resolves but serves only a default nginx test page (no content) — a rebrand under construction, not evidence of the old name reopening. Still correctly blocked.
2026-04-10 · Sag Harbor · closed
CLOSED_PERMANENTLY per Google Places; flagged v6.95, v6.150. Re-checked 2026-08-05: the same placeId returned a self-contradictory Places record — Details reporting businessStatus CLOSED_TEMPORARILY under the renamed "The Corner", while a text search for the same placeId still carried permanently_closed:true. RE-CHECKED AGAIN 2026-08-14, triggered by a realtor reel (@patrickhamptons1, 2026-07-31) saying the team was hustling to reopen. Four checks, and the picture has changed: THIS VENUE IS REOPENING. (1) Places has settled — Details and text search now agree on CLOSED_TEMPORARILY, name "The Corner", 1 Main St, phone (631) 769-3535; the contradiction is gone but it has NOT gone OPERATIONAL. (2) The NYS Liquor Authority register now holds a live permit at the premises — licence 0524-26-47161, type "Temporary retail", legal name "The Corner Hamptons LLC and One Main Street SH Owner LLC", 1 Main St Sag Harbor, effective 2026-06-26 and current to 2026-12-23. A temporary retail permit is what the state issues an applicant with a licence application pending, so a new operator has taken the premises and is permitted to trade. (3) The Sag Harbor Express has run it twice: "Six Months After Closing, The Corner Will Open for Business Again in Sag Harbor", and on 2026-08-12 "The Corner Hosts Friends and Family, Delays Official Opening by a Few Days" — i.e. it had done a friends-and-family service and pushed its grand opening back from a Friday. (4) The operator still publishes nothing: cornerbarsagharbor.com fails DNS outright, thecornersagharbor.com does not resolve either, and the website Places still stores is the dead old domain. STAYS BLOCKED, for two reasons and not for lack of evidence. Google still reports the venue shut, and audit-closed-venues and audit-closure-consistency exist precisely so nothing Places calls closed renders as open — un-blocking today would put the dataset at war with itself. And there is no operator page to cite, which is the house rule for a venue record. UN-BLOCK AS SOON AS EITHER LANDS: Places flips this placeId to OPERATIONAL, or the new operator publishes a page of its own. Both are cheap to re-check and the weekly closure sweep already watches the placeId. The 2026-08-05 note said "no signal points to reopening"; that sentence is now wrong and this replaces it. Getting this one wrong in the stale direction — hiding a reopened Sag Harbor institution behind an authoritative-looking block — is the more expensive error of the two.
2026-02-17 · Westhampton Beach · closed
Closed for good Feb 17, 2026 after 115 years. Confirmed via Dan's Papers dedicated closure article and Greater Long Island 'last meal' coverage. The Little Gull Cafe team has leased the space; successor concept name not yet independently confirmed. Re-confirmed 2026-07-31: Places holds the record CLOSED_PERMANENTLY, the operator's own Google Site at sites.google.com/view/eckartsluncheonette is no longer published (it 302s to a Google login), and 27east carries both the closing announcement and a follow-up that the Little Gull owners will bring 'Galley' to the former Eckart's. Removed from data/breakfast.json 2026-07-31, where it had survived the blocklist because breakfast.json was not in audit-existence's FULL_FILES and its blurb still read 'still serving the classics'.
2025-10-26 · Bridgehampton · closed
CLOSED - the Bridgehampton Golden Pear served its last day Sunday, October 26, 2025, after 29 years on Main Street. Two independent signals: (1) The Southampton Press / 27east.com, published 2025-10-21, "Bridgehampton Golden Pear To Close Sunday" - owner Keith Davis said he could not negotiate a new lease with his landlord, that about a dozen year-round employees would be laid off, and that the company would "maintain its other two locations in Southampton and East Hampton". (2) The operator's own current locations page, goldenpearcafe.com/pages/locations, lists exactly two cafes - Southampton (99 Main Street, 631-283-8900, Mon-Sat 6:30am-5pm, Sun 6:30am-4:30pm) and East Hampton (34 Newtown Lane, 631-329-1600, Sun-Thu 6:30am-4pm, Fri-Sat 6:30am-5pm); the site-wide footer and the Shopify sitemap agree, and neither names Bridgehampton. Removed from data/breakfast.json 2026-07-31, where it was still listed as open daily 6:30am-6pm at 2426 Main St.
2025-09-27 · Amagansett · closed
Closed permanently Sept 27, 2025 after six seasons; owner cited seasonal-restaurant economics. Confirmed via Greater Long Island and Yelp (closed, updated July 2026).
2021-01-01 · East Hampton · closed
Amagansett (Main St) location closed ~2012-2016; consolidated to East Hampton (Newtown Ln), which closed permanently in 2021. No currently operating location; owner Mary Schoenlein now runs a Substack newsletter instead. Confirmed via East Hampton Star and Behind The Hedges.
2018-10-01 · Sag Harbor · closed
Closed permanently Oct 2018. Property sold Aug 2022; space now occupied by Goldberg's Famous Bagels (opened ~early 2023). Confirmed via 27east and Behind The Hedges.
2017-09-01 · East Hampton · closed
Eleven Madison Park's single-season 2017 pop-up at 341 Pantigo Road. Google Places returns businessStatus CLOSED_PERMANENTLY for the stored placeId, and 341 Pantigo Road now carries two active NYS liquor licences held by Whale Beach LLC dba Moby's, running to 2028-03-31. Exact closing date is not published; closedAt is the end of the 2017 season.
2016-05-01 · Amagansett · closed
Closed permanently 2016 after operator was convicted on 45 of 47 misdemeanor counts for illegal expansion; NYS Liquor Authority revoked the liquor license. Site later occupied by Morty's Oyster Stand (unverified current status). Confirmed via 27east and Dan's Papers.
Dates are the day a sweep caught the change, not the day it happened in the world — the second is often unknowable, and we do not guess.