“There Are Rich-People Problems Up and Down Highway 27”: In East Hampton, a Potential Airport Closure Ignites Class Warfare

“First they came for my P.J.s, and I said nothing,” said Roman Roy on a recent episode of Succession, as the Roy family begrudgingly agreed to forfeit its use of Waystar Royco’s private jets during an eleventh hour negotiation to maintain corporate control. Real-life moguls of the Hamptons are facing a similar(ish) fate. They can fly their P.J.s, but their ability to land them at the Town of East Hampton airport is, well, still up in the air. For decades, the Federal Aviation Administration has maintained control of the town’s airport—as such, the town didn’t have authority to limit operations… Read Full Article