Welcome to The Dig

Surveyor's stakes marking a future foundation

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Every Monday morning we read every building permit filed with the Towns of East Hampton and Southampton the week before. All of them. Then we send you the ones worth knowing about.

The Dig of the Week is the single most remarkable filing on the East End. Teardown Watch is which houses are coming down, and it's usually the first public sign a property changed hands. New Construction is every ground-up house, pickleball courts and all. And the velocity table tells you which hamlets are running hot.

Everything comes straight from the towns' public records, the week it's filed. We print the clerks' typos as written. That's how you know it's real.

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