Hamptons Verified

Dispatches · findings from the verification sweeps

What the audits caught

Every listing on this site is re-checked against the operator's own page on a schedule. Sometimes the check finds something bigger than a changed closing time.

These are those findings — dated, sourced, and re-checkable by anyone with a browser.

August 14, 2026

Seven East End gallery websites are now spam domains

During an Instagram-handle sweep of our art listings, we re-visited the official website of every gallery and museum we cover.

Seven domains — all still linked from guides, map listings, and old press — no longer belong to the businesses they are named after.

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 a reader hunting for a Sag Harbor photography gallery to a spam page — under the gallery's own name.

Directories that never re-check their links are distributing these domains today. We removed all seven on August 14, 2026 and kept the venues themselves — most are open and active; a business and its abandoned domain are different things.

Where a contact route survived verification, we kept it — like an Instagram handle confirmed from a gallery's own archived site footer.

Re-check it yourself: type any of the seven domains into a browser. Our 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.

The Bridgehampton Polo Club — the Two Trees Farm Sunday matches once covered by the New York Times, Page Six, and Hamptons Magazine as the social center of summer Bridgehampton — is 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 lists the Bridgehampton club as the historical entry it is. “This ended” is information a guide owes you — repeating a dead listing every summer is how every other guide got here.

Corrections welcome and acted on — if any claim above is wrong, the fastest way to embarrass us is an email with a link. Being right is the whole product.

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