Amagansett's West End Woke Up This Summer. October Is Its First Real Test.

"Friendly reminder that just because summer is leaving, doesn't mean we are too!" Jamagansett posted that line on September 18, along with a new schedule. The shop now opens Monday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., closes on Tuesday, runs Wednesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and stays open Friday through Sunday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The weekly pie special stayed too. That week it was Salty Blueberry.

A jam shop trimming its Tuesdays would be a small thing on most East End streets. On the west end of Amagansett's Main Street it matters more. This stretch has spent years without year-round tenants, and the businesses that filled it this summer are now facing their first winter on a property that is listed for sale.

A Block the Planning Board Saved by Saying No

The East Hampton Star's Irene Silverman described the west end in July as "once dead as a desert with only a few oases of here-today-gone-tomorrow storefronts." The center of the change is 136 Main Street, a 1920s building beside the Mobil station at the entrance to the business district. Behind it, off Indian Wells Highway, is a red barn that started as a Lester livery stable and was later rebuilt from the ground up.

Investors bought both buildings four years ago. They proposed demolishing them and building offices, 12 retail stores, four affordable housing units and more. Both buildings sit in Amagansett's historic district, and the East Hampton Town Planning Board turned the plan down quickly. Since then the existing spaces have been renovated one at a time. The owners have also put the whole property up for sale, and the Star reported an asking price of $19 million as of July 2026.

What filled the old rooms is a set of small shops. Jamagansett took over a former beauty salon in March. Sett Coffee and Sea Dragon Books opened next to each other on Main Street. LaParlour, the salon, moved into the ground floor of the barn. One Stop Pet Shop, which was there before all of them, stayed put. In July a dog owner at Sett told the Star she had wandered over after picking up her pet to see what the fuss was about.

The Star also noted that the crowd was not all tourists. On a Saturday morning at Sett, under-40s with babies, strollers and dogs were talking about the Little League's new town ball field on Stephen Hand's Path and the price of peanut butter at the I.G.A. Conversations like that suggest the block can keep going after Labor Day.

Who Has Posted Fall Hours, and Who Hasn't

Here is what each business on the block had said publicly as of October 4, 2026.

The bottom row is there for contrast. LUNCH is serving at 11:45 a.m. on its fall schedule, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, until its final day on October 25. On October 26 its calendar switches to "Closed for the Season - Reopening 4/23/27." Out on Napeague, that date has long marked the end of the season. The newer shops on Main Street are working on a different plan.

At Sea Dragon, a member of the Billings family told 27east that someone in the family has read about 75 percent of the books on the shelves. A store chosen from the owners' own reading needs repeat visits from people who come back for the next recommendation. The family's two-year lease runs well past this winter.

Sett belongs to the Piccinninis, a married couple from Springs who also own the Clam Bar on Napeague and bought Sag Harbor's Corner Bar last year. Over the summer the café added ice cream from the owner of A La Mode in East Hampton. It also ran weekend events, including a signing by Nathaniel Butler, the official photographer of the N.B.A., for his book "Courtside: 40 Years of N.B.A. Photography." Its website's contact page lists the 136 Main Street address but no hours. Calling ahead before a weekday visit is the safe approach until it posts a fall schedule.

LaParlour's story shows why staying put matters on this block. Jenny Carmona lost her space next to the pet shop last winter. A broker then pointed her to the larger room in the barn. "Some of the older locals don't have pets or social media," she told the Star, "and they may think we've closed. But we're still here, and we have more services." Inside, the roughly 9,700-square-foot building still has some of its original 19th-century fittings. Carmona wants to hang period photographs at the entrance.

"The horses came through our double doors! The building was like a taxi. The New Yorkers would leave their horses here and be taken to the train station!"

A Jar on Amber Waves' Shelf

The new west end is closely tied to the businesses that already keep Amagansett open in winter. Jamagansett's manager, Gino Solano, told the Star that Spring Close Farm and Amber Waves carry the shop's jams. He also said Rosie's in Amagansett uses its jam for scones. The fruit comes from farms on the South Fork and the North Fork, and from elsewhere in the tristate area when local supply runs out.

Amber Waves Farm & Market, at 367 Main Street, opens daily at 8 a.m. and stays open all year, serving breakfast and lunch indoors through the winter. The shop therefore has a year-round outlet down the street even on Tuesdays, when its own door is closed.

The product list is also shifting toward a pantry that lasts past summer. On September 9 the shop introduced its Hamptons Reserve Box, with Smoky Tomato, Caramelized Onion and Burnt Peach jams. A week later it released Caramelized Onion Balsamic as a single-jar "harvest flavor" for "cooking season." Owner Lena Kristy, whom New York Magazine credited with "the only $80 pie only a former McKinsey consultant could dream up," worked at local farm stands as a teenager, according to her manager. In its end-of-summer thank-you post, the shop said it had "exciting things" coming this fall but did not say what.

October on the Same Mile of Main Street

The rest of this month's calendar along Main Street comes mostly from the year-round institutions:

1. Tuesdays, Oct. 13 through 27, 10:15 to 11 a.m. Baby Playtime in the Amagansett Free Library's Community Room.
2. Saturday, Oct. 17, 11 a.m. "Stone Soup at Amber Waves," a children's musical cooking event.
3. Saturday, Oct. 17, noon to 1 p.m. Owl Story Time at the library, with an owl ambassador from the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center.
4. Friday, Oct. 23, 2 to 4 p.m. A family screening of "Monster House" at the library.
5. Sunday, Oct. 25. Final day of the season at LUNCH on Napeague.
6. Through Nov. 11 and Nov. 13. Amber Waves' Little Farmer class on Mondays and Wednesdays, and its pre-registration Mixed Age Cooking class on Fridays, both from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at 375 Main Street.

The first weekend of October is wrapping up. The Amagansett Farmers Market met on the Amagansett Square lawn on October 2. Amber Waves held its Oktoberfeast fundraiser on October 3. Rowdy Hall's Oktoberfest at 177 Main Street, which began September 19, ends today.

The Building Is on a Different Timeline

The shops have committed to the winter. The property they occupy has not settled its future. After the Planning Board rejected the redevelopment plan, the owners listed the full parcel, storefronts and barn together, and the Star reported the $19 million asking price as of July. No sale, new tenant or new Planning Board filing has been reported since then. The barn is still mostly empty, with parts of it, in the Star's words, "still waiting for the interior designer."

The tenants' commitments are concrete. Jamagansett has posted a Tuesday closure and a Monday afternoon close. Sea Dragon, open since June 3, has a two-year lease. LaParlour has a larger room it found after losing its old one. The coming months will show whether these businesses and the west end's ownership end up planning for the same future.

At Deborah Srb, we follow Amagansett's Main Street closely: who signs a lease, who posts winter hours, and what a historic-district parcel can and cannot become. If you want to talk through a property on this end of the hamlet, or simply how the west end is changing, we would be glad to hear from you. Work With Deborah.