Things worth knowing

August 14, 2026

Seven East End gallery websites are now spam domains

We rechecked every gallery and museum website we cover. Seven domains (still linked from guides, map listings and old press) are no longer theirs.

tullaboothgallery.com (Tulla Booth Gallery, Sag Harbor). Hijacked; the domain now serves an unrelated World of Warcraft blog.

illearts.com (Ille Arts, Amagansett), hijacked by a gambling-spam site.

veredart.com (Vered Gallery, East Hampton). Serves a spam redirect shell.

rentalgallery.com (Rental Gallery, East Hampton), dead; DreamHost “Site not found.”

drawingroom-easthampton.com (The Drawing Room, East Hampton), no longer resolves; zero Wayback captures.

romanfineart.com (Roman Fine Art, East Hampton). Serves only a 503 error on an expired certificate.

shinnecockmuseum.org (Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center, Southampton), a parked domain-for-sale page.

• Why it matters, a stale link is an inconvenience; a hijacked one sends someone hunting a Sag Harbor photography gallery to spam, under the gallery's own name.
• What we did, removed all seven on August 14, 2026. The venues stay; most are open and active. A business and its abandoned domain are different things.
• What we kept, contact routes that survived verification, like an Instagram handle confirmed from a gallery's own archived site footer.

Current listings: Art & galleries.

August 14, 2026

The Bridgehampton polo scene guides still sell ended years ago

“Sunday polo in Bridgehampton” still appears in Hamptons guides and itineraries. It does not exist.

Bridgehampton Polo Club · Two Trees Farm Sunday matches · covered by the New York Times, Page Six and Hamptons Magazine as the social center of summer · defunct

The club's own domain now redirects to WVVH-TV, a local television station.

It appears nowhere in the United States Polo Association club registry.

The Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge at Two Trees, whose 2009 final (Great Oaks 13, White Birch 12, August 11) was covered by 27east, went with it. It survives online only as recycled listicle copy.

Where polo actually is: the USPA club registry's only East End member club is The Hamptons Polo Club at 206 Millstone Rd, Water Mill, checked 2026-08-14.

Our Gilded Hamptons section keeps the Bridgehampton club as a historical entry.