East End Business Book: Legislation Would Save Wineries Time, Money

Nightlife entrepreneurs Marcus Linial and Sam Lott of Lower Manhattan's music and party venue Canal Room are headed east this summer, presenting Canal Room Southampton.

The new nightclub will be at , local businessman Tim Burke's establishment at the former Southampton Polish Hall in Southampton Village, next door to the . The venue includes both an upstairs and downstairs bar as well as dance floors and arcade games and tables games such as pool and shuffleboard.

"We are thrilled to offer the same quality entertainment with an even larger venue at New York City's most popular summer destination with the debut of Canal Room Southampton," Linial said.

Anyone with a child knows that first day of school is usually a hard one. There are sometimes tears and a few parent's desperately try to pry their children off their pant legs. This is what happened to one East Quogue couple, who say they have a solution or at least something that has the potential to help make the day a little easier for children. It's called .

Pocket Frenz is a clothing line that Jason and Marni Hefter created with their own children in mind.

The Riverhead riverfront may soon welcome a farmer's market and crafts vendors.

On Thursday, Ray Pickersgill of the Riverhead Business Improvement District, proposed a new weekend farmers' market that would be held on the grassy area by the riverfront boardwalk.

Not only fruits and vegetable vendors, but craftsmen and artists would be able to set up their wares, he said.

Legislation that could lift an onerous burden from East End farm wineries and craft breweries passed unanimously in the New York State Assembly this week.

According to , who crafted the legislation, the measure would exempt farm wineries and craft breweries from a tax filing requirement.

The Sag Harbor Village Board is expected to vote next week on an application which would permit Hampton Jitney to operate a passenger ferry connecting the South Fork village with Greenport, according to the Sag Harbor Express.

We asked our readers what they thought about the plan.