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Wainscott

Wainscott is a hamlet in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the South Fork of Long Island.

Wainscott
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The place

Wainscott is a hamlet in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the South Fork of Long Island. As of the 2020 census, Wainscott had a population of 904. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau defined a census-designated place (CDP) for the 2000 census that roughly corresponds to the same area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wainscott

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Grey Gardens

    Grey Gardens is a 14-room house at 3 West End Road and Lily Pond Lane in the Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York. It was the residence of the Beale family from 1924 to 1979, including mother and daughter Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale from 1952 to 1977.

    3 km · house in East Hampton, New York · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Wainscott

Airports
Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 110 km · Bradley (BDL), 116 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 134 km
Stations
East Hampton Airport, 900 m
  • New York → Wainscott
    150 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · $13–18
  • Providence/Warwick → Wainscott
    110 km · quickest by road, 7h 6m · $32–45
  • Hartford → Wainscott
    99 km · quickest by road, 5h 37m · $25–34
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wainscott

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Wainscott. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inCharter companies such as Air Charter Advisors and Sound Aircraft Services offer flights at both MTP and HTO, with aircraft rentals ranging from single & twin engine propeller planes to luxury business jets.
  • Get in}} Ferries travel from Orient to New London.

From Wikivoyage: East Hampton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    83 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    444 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,608 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,620 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,732 km

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Around it

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