Montauk, New York
Suffolk County
36-48054
Montauk is the name of a village on the eastern tip of Long Iceland in Suffolk County, New York. It is referred to as an unincorporated hamlet and has no own administrative structures and corresponds to a census -designated place ( statistical area ). It belongs to East Hampton in Suffolk County.
The place is after the Montaukett, a part of the tribe Metoac Indians, named who settled in the south-eastern part of Long Iceland. According to a census of 2000, there live 3851 inhabitants. The town's landmark is its lighthouse.
1926 began the entrepreneur Carl Graham Fisher, who had already transformed into a Miami Beach holiday home, with the development of Miami Beach of the North. He acquired land in Montauk and built, among others, a luxury hotel and a marina. But after the stock market crash of 1929, the company went bankrupt in 1932.
At Montauk there was a U.S. Air Force base, which was closed in 1969. Today it is a nature reserve. In a bunker beneath the former military site is Camp Hero, a radar base for the U.S. Air Force.
In the German-speaking world Montauk was also known by the same name story of Swiss writer Max Frisch, in which he in May 1974 describes a weekend with the young friend Lynn at Hotel Gurney 's Inn in Montauk and inserts sketchy and collagen-like reflections on his life.
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- In Camp Hero, the base of the U.S. military in Montauk, to a secret experiment, the so-called Montauk Project, have been carried out.
- Parts of the film Forget Me Not! play in Montauk.
- Short parts of Frank Schätzing novel The Swarm play the lighthouse in Montauk.
- A revised model of the BMW motorcycle R 1200 C Montauk was named after.
- Bernard Madoff in Montauk had an exclusive holiday villa.
- The fictional character Max Payne, known from the eponymous video game series, spent their honeymoon.