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Housing Units (2000): 4815
Land area (2000): 17.493952 sq. miles (45.309126 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.283396 sq. miles (5.913967 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 19.777348 sq. miles (51.223093 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48054
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 41.038310 N, 71.950608 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 11954
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Montauk
Wikipedia
Montauk derives from a place-name in the Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett language. It can refer to:
- Montaukett, an Algonquian-speaking Native American group native to the eastern end of Long Island, though some were later exiled to Missouri
Montauk may also refer to:
Montauk is the terminus of the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, as well as the easternmost railroad station on Long Island. The station is located on Edgemere Street ( Suffolk County Route 49) and Fort Pond Road west of Montauk Harbor, New York.
Montauk is a story by Swiss writer Max Frisch. It first appeared in 1975 and takes an exceptional position in Frisch's work. While fictional stories previously served Frisch for exploring the possible behavior of his protagonists, in Montauk, he tells an authentic experience: a weekend which he spent with a young woman at the American East Coast. The short-run love affair is used by Frisch as a retrospective on his own biography. In line with Philip Roth he tells his "life as a man," relates to the women with whom he was associated, and the failure of their relationship. Further reflections apply to the author's age and his near-death and the mutual influence of life and work. Also, the story is about the emergence of Montauk: in contrast to his previous work Frisch describes his decision to document this weekend's direct experience without adding anything. Montauk met with strongly polarized reception. The former partners of Frisch faced by the open descriptions of their past were duped. Some readers were embarrassed by Frisch's self exposure. Other critics hailed the story as his most important work and praised the achievement to make a literary masterpiece of his own life. Marcel Reich-Ranicki adopted Montauk in his Canon of German literature.
Usage examples of "montauk".
It was orders for the Caine to leave Ulithi that after-noon to escort the Montauk, the Kalamazoo, and two dam-aged destroyers to Guam.
In the late stormy twilight he could see the dim forms of the Montauk, the Kalamazoo, and the nearest destroyers of the screen, small tossing shapes of an intenser black on the gray-black of the ocean.
As the Montauk approached, Willie had a clear look at Roland Keefer through binoculars.
Keefer, your brother saved the, Montauk," Whitely began, after a nervous gulp of half the cup of coffee.
The novelist put out his hand, and the young officer from the Montauk shook it.
Dave Leonardis’s office was on the far side of Southampton, on the Montauk Highway.
She could inch ahead on the Montauk Highway, and then break free of the traffic and race parallel to the highway on the connecting back roads, always finding a way to break back into the lineup of cars again.
On the northern horizon was a glow: the headlights of the cars that were already at a standstill in the westbound lane of the Montauk Highway.
The last duty related fatality of an Amity policeman occurred in 1957 when an officer had tried to stop a drunk speeding along the Montauk Highway and had been run off the road into a stone wall.
Before he left the office, he called the Coast Guard station at Montauk and told the duty officer about Ben Gardner.
He turned right and pushed the throttle forward, and the boat moved swiftly through the calm sea -- past Hicks Island and Goff Point, around Shagwong and Montauk points.
Soon the lighthouse on Montauk Point was behind them, and they were cruising south by southwest in the open ocean.
All the way out to Montauk Point she seemed to sleep, lying slumped beside him, her head tilted back, her hair folded softly around her, her skirt hiked partway up her thighs.
He got back in the car, cruised the rest of the way into tacky Montauk village.
Here they were in a run-down Montauk motel, in the same room together because she had insisted that she did not want to sleep alone.