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How to sneak into a Bored Ape Yacht Club party

You need to own an nft that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. or do you.

By Adlan Jackson

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As someone who clears out his checking account every month to pay rent, I’ve been a passive observer of the whole NFT phenomenon rather than a participant. When you can’t afford one anyway, it’s much more tempting to see the technology as a gimmick, the scene’s adoptions of language like “democratization” as half-hearted cosplay for assets available mainly to the very rich, and the whole enterprise as a scam by people too rich to get in trouble for scamming, especially when NFTs mostly look like shit. They look like the kind of thing that in the past might have earned you a modest following on DeviantArt — but these things are getting sold at Sotheby’s. 

A few weeks ago, though, erstwhile countercultural bible Rolling Stone collaborated on a “zine” with the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, saying that they had “built an immersive, fantastical world” and advertised one of their creators comparing themselves to “the Beastie Boys on tour with Madonna.” Steph Curry had one. Another sold for $2.7 million. As of this writing, the cheapest one you can buy is for sale at around 50 Ethereum, about $200,000 dollars.

I got into a frenzy and skimmed a New Yorker article. It taught me that when you buy or “mint” one of 10,000 available NFTs, an algorithm sorts a bunch of random attributes to create a cartoon of a monkey (the “Bored Ape”) that, while an instantly recognizable variation on the theme, is unique. One is shooting laser beams from its eyes; the next has 3D glasses. One frowns in front of a cyan background; the next grimaces over a mauve background. By virtue of that uniqueness, it becomes an asset, and membership among the owners (the “Yacht Club”) makes it valuable. 

But what about the NFT, the thing that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars?

But the article didn’t explain their value. What was so meaningful in the apes’ aesthetic, which reminded me of Neopets? What was so compelling about the members of the de facto club that had formed among the owners of the exorbitantly priced avatars? But just when it seemed like I was doomed to my confusion, I found out parties were a part of this whole thing. 

More specifically, a “warehouse party,” held at Brooklyn Steel, which is not so much a warehouse, as it is a mid-size concert venue created and owned by the same people who run Coachella (and who just renamed the Staples Center to the Crypto.com Arena). That’s like saying you went to a supper club at Applebee’s. But I like parties, so I figured if I was ever going to find out what the deal with this NFT stuff was, as a nightlife journalist, “NFT NYC” week was my time. A Twitter employee had posted a picture the previous night of a defeated-looking James Murphy at a BAYC party.

I went to Princeton on a scholarship, so a lot of my college friends went to high school with James Murphy. So it was uncanny to see their hometown hero, a veritable titan of New York nightlife, DJing for… whatever this was. 

But my proximity to that kind of privilege made me think someone I knew might have a Bored Ape. You needed one to get in, and the blockchain is purportedly so impregnable that people are using it to unlock their apartment doors. But I’d been guested into country clubs before, and this seemed like something similar. Even in college, I always got a voyeuristic thrill from watching how the wealthy behave when they let loose and enjoyed mooching off their open bars.

My first move was to ask a friend who has posted Instagram Stories of her crypto-trading brother-in-law staring into multiple screens at a standing desk. “Don’t have one, friends sold as well,” the brother-in-law replied to her curtly. “Depreciating asset.” I tweeted, I ‘grammed, I texted college friends who had gone into the tech industry — nothing doing. Mostly, people just wondered what I was even talking about. 

Then I heard back from H, a former philosophy major who now works for a blockchain company. He thought his boss might have one — why? I explained the situation sweatily. 

“I don’t think he’d transfer it to me,” H said, and I felt like I looked silly — like I was betraying how little I knew about expensive financial assets and web 3.0 technologies that will define our society’s future. I had caveated multiple times with “I know this is super weird” and “no worries if not,” but H suddenly announced that his boss could verify his ownership online and text him a screenshot of a QR code. The boss teleworked in from Puerto Rico anyway. He said H could go in his place, and I could tag along as his plus-one. What the fuck? Holy shit. Fuck yes. Let’s fucking go. 

Hype drives value. It was the reason any of us were standing in line

At 6PM, I took the B43 bus to Brooklyn Steel as I had many times before. Just as I was stepping off the bus, though, H called me. He had wisely gone to the security to ask about the protocol for admission and had been told that they would be checking not for NFT ownership but yellow wristbands that had been given out at a prior event. What? But what about the NFT, the thing that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars? Nope, she was just checking for yellow wristbands. That might be a problem, but H and I met up at around 7 and joined the line that curled around the block.

In line, I learned my first lessons about the NFT scene. It’s not even made primarily up of people who work in tech. A guy wearing a custom blue tracksuit with his ape printed all over it said he didn’t even get the blockchain stuff and needed H to explain it to him. He was just an investor, he said. Rather than the software engineer types I was imagining, the Bored Ape crowd was full of young, eager-eyed bros, happy to strike up conversation about their own pet NFT projects. It was more like a real-life version of those Twitter spam bots that promise that a certain cryptocurrency is “going to the moon” because NFTs are fundamentally about hype. Hype drives value. It was the reason any of us were standing in line. 

It also means the actual aesthetics are shamelessly derivative. The Bored Apes themselves are a shoddy appropriation of the Japanese streetwear brand A Bathing Ape. But in line, the Yacht Club members talked up their own, non-Ape zoo-animal-themed limited avatars.

Everyone else, however, had yellow wristbands, and sure enough, another security guard advised us to step out of the line when we neared the front. “But we have the NFT,” we said pathetically, brandishing our QR code screenshot. She had no idea what the fuck we were talking about. I could not believe that, having gotten (by proxy) this one-in-10-thousand cartoon monkey worth half a million dollars, that we were not going to get let in because of, like, resort rules. But we accepted the judgment, went to the nearby bar Tom and Joan’s, and drank for an hour, talking about love. 

I joined the longest line to a mens’ room I’ve ever seen

By around 10PM, we were ready to head home. “Do you want to just go back and try one more time?” H asked. Yeah, fuck it. We decided that maybe if we persisted, we could annoy people long enough that they’d call someone who knew the value of our QR code screenshot. As we stepped into the crowd between the food trucks and the entrance, though, security waved us in without asking us to pull up our sleeves. 

The irony was not lost on me that actually getting the non-fungible token had no bearing whatsoever on us being denied entry at first or later when we got in. But honestly, I’ll be chasing the high I felt when we illicitly crossed that threshold for the rest of my life.

Brooklyn Steel was covered in tropical camouflage; over the bar, opposite the stage, a fluorescent “BAYC” logo was glowing, and blown-up Bored Ape portraits tile walls. 

The decorators had done a good job, but even when I was in the Yacht Club for the night, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the Bored Apes didn’t seem much more impressive than the art in a typical Newgrounds flash game. I figured I must be wrong, though. Art and commerce’s mingling isn’t some new scandal, anyway. I thought, maybe the next great patron of the arts is here tonight. A hundred years from now, scholarship kids at an art school will claw each other’s eyes out to take classes in a building with his name on it; tonight, he’s doing a backflip in the photo booth, picking up his Stella Artois Cidre, and heading back to the dance floor to try to grind on his coworker to “Reptilia.”

The Strokes were there, by the way. We missed seeing Beck get introduced by Aziz Ansari but got in in time to see Chris Rock try to riff on NFTs for 90 seconds and then introduce what must have been one of the first Strokes shows since their fundraisers for Bernie Sanders. “This is kind of about art, right?” Julian Casablancas pleaded from the stage. “NFTs? I don’t know, what the hell. All I know is... a lot of dudes here tonight.” The other members of The Strokes wore stony expressions and gripped their instruments like nervous high schoolers at a talent show.

Casablancas was right about the gender breakdown; I joined the longest line to a mens’ room I’ve ever seen. It was a jumble because while the organizers had booked multi-million dollar comedians to introduce multi-million dollar indie rockers, they had neglected to actually hire anyone to manage the crowd inside the venue; the Yacht Club was being run by a skeleton crew. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I had to notice the failure of the party to live up to any of the futurist promises that drive the value of NFTs. It turns out you actually can’t use the blockchain to work a door or keep a bathroom clean. You can only really do that with labor.

“Brooklyn, if you’re making more money this year than last year, make some noise!”

The relentless peer-to-peer advertising I noticed in the line continued inside as well. It’s one of the more memorable lessons I learned: though I was expecting software engineers getting loose, while the NFT crowd wasn’t cool per se, creating value in a public marketplace requires more social engineering than other tech phenomena. If you can make your ape, giraffe, or pizza popular, it could mean getting rich. So, more stickers were left in the bathroom, and more people are smoking indoors than I’ve seen at any punk show. (Weed, mostly.) And the crowd in this millionaires’ party was noticeably less white than I expected, reminiscent of the Supreme store line crowd of nerds, hypebeasts, and hustlers — diverse but without very many Black people.

And if there’s something that the makers of BAYC did right, it’s encouraging all their attendees to buy merch (that’s where you got the wristband that we don’t have, a merch pop-up). The crowd was full of black-and-white Bored Ape Yacht Club hoodies and T-shirts, which have the look of mid-2010s streetwear, just north of minimal, and the Yacht Club members wore them like frat letters. The energy was very collegiate, sloppy. The partiers didn’t seem to care much about cleaning up their messes. The ground was sticky before long, and the spilled beer smell began rising from it.

Drinks were free in the Yacht Club, and thank God, because I had already broken my pledge not to spend any more than my $5.50 in bus fare tonight by insisting drinks were on me at the bar. But we had gotten in late enough that the open bar was starting to run out. I got a Stella Artois Cidre of my own, and The Strokes had gone by then, and a DJ was playing a pretty good hip-hop set by the soundboard. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard a crowd of literal millionaires go up to Bobby Shmurda’s “Hot Nigga.” The DJ ended up being Questlove, and blessedly, he knows to play the censored version in this crowd.

Lil Baby, the night’s headliner, finally took the stage at around 1AM. Most people had left by then. I was drinking my last vodka of the night and zoning out to “Life Goes On,” though, and a small group of attendees bounced near the front of the stage, and there was something inspirational about Lil Baby’s utter lack of concern with how small the audience had grown and how utterly dry the vibe in Brooklyn Steel was. He had none of Julian Casablancas’ cool kid embarrassment or Chris Rock’s self-consciousness. He was simply getting to the bag. “Brooklyn, if you’re making more money this year than last year, make some noise!” his hype man screamed to the crowd’s delight.

I’m a taker and not a maker, so because unemployment ran out, I don’t think that’ll be quite the case for me. I think he’s got the right idea, though. On the walk back to the bus stop, I found myself a little shook by the diversity of the new class of oligarchs, their expensive sneakers, and their knowledge of Lil Baby lyrics. One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned as a scholarship kid myself is that after spending enough time in the borderlands between rich and poor, you could still end up dying as poor as you were born, no matter how many times you party with the rich. However strained the atmosphere of people trying very hard to make a party cool because their ROI depends on it may have been, I thought I might finally be learning to emulate the money moves of the Casablancases and the James Murphies, rather than their subversive poses. They wised up at some point, whereas I still hadn’t learned. Culture is cheap, and the Bored Apes were right to turn it into a token. If only I’d bought in sooner. 

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Crypto Is Cool. Now Get on the Yacht.

NFT.NYC, a gathering for nonfungible token enthusiasts, offered a taste of a crypto-filled future.

An NFT collector, Seedphrase, wearing an NFT helmet, was the DJ for a set at VR World in Manhattan on Monday. Credit... Jeenah Moon for The New York Times

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By Kevin Roose

• Nov. 5, 2021

The masters of the metaverse — thousands of CryptoPunks and Bored Apes, artists and hackers, starry-eyed idealists and profit-hungry speculators — descended on Manhattan this past week, looking for a glimpse of the future.

Officially, they were here for NFT.NYC, a conference devoted to the nonfungible token, or NFT, the blockchain-based collectible that has upended the cryptocurrency and art worlds this year. The conference, now in its third year, attracted a record crowd of 5,000, plus a 3,000-person wait list, organizers said.

By day, they went to panels with titles like “Mainstreaming Blockchain Games” and “Fintech and NFTs: Risk and Regulation.”

But the real action happened at night, on the unofficial party circuit — a weeklong orgy of boom-time exuberance that some attendees jokingly referred to as “Crypto Coachella.”

It was a coming-out party of sorts for the NFT community, which was born online and has only recently started to experiment with offline fun. On Sunday, the Bored Ape Yacht Club — an elite NFT clique whose members own a series of extremely expensive monkey cartoons — threw a rager on an actual yacht on the Hudson River. On Monday, partyers packed into VR World in Midtown for a party DJed by an NFT collector named Seedphrase, who appeared on stage in a light-up CryptoPunk helmet. And on Tuesday, entrepreneurs rubbed elbows with drag queens at a downtown party hosted by Playboy to promote the magazine’s new “Rabbitars” NFT collection.

It was a more diverse group than one might think, due primarily to the presence of plenty of artists and musicians among the crypto die-hards, FOMO-stricken investors and corporate suits. Many NFT collectors know each other only from Twitter threads and Discord chats, and few use their real names or photos online, opting instead for pseudonyms and cartoon avatars. At first, they spent a lot of time figuring out who they might know as CoolCat43 or ApeChad690 and whether the guy who came dressed as CryptoPunk #3706 actually owned CryptoPunk #3706. (He did.)

They also found that not all of the customs of the online NFT world translate well to meatspace. T-shirts emblazoned with rallying cries like “Wagmi” (we’re all gonna make it) drew some confused stares from passers-by. One morning, a group of NFT fans in Times Square struggled to start a chant of “gm, New York” — “gm” being the traditional Twitter greeting of the crypto-converted. By the end, even Elmo looked embarrassed.

And forget about trying to explain to the uninitiated what an NFT conference is, or why you’d fly across the country to attend one. I overheard several attempts, mostly with polite waiters and bartenders, which almost always stalled out somewhere around the word “provenance.” The real answer for some of them — “we buy digital tokens corresponding to JPEGs because digital tokens corresponding to JPEGs sometimes become incredibly valuable, and we are here because we want to figure out which digital tokens corresponding to JPEGs will become incredibly valuable next so that we can buy them and retire early” — generally raises more questions than it answers.

I’m a fan of NFTs , but in some ways, they’re an odd fit for an IRL gathering. Like crypto itself, they’re a purely digital phenomenon — a technology that allows people to buy and sell intangible fragments of the internet as if they were physical objects, whether it’s trading NBA highlight videos or auctioning off collections of digital art. And between the cringe factor of certain NFT subgroups and the prevalence of literal children among the NFT elite, it’s a scene that could probably benefit from a little more mystique.

By Monday night, the V.I.P.s who gathered at a reception on the roof of the Edison Hotel seemed to have worked it out. Snapping off their masks and flagging down trays of sliders and risotto balls, they caught each other up on their projects, and talked about how discovering NFTs had changed their lives.

Mostly, they seemed grateful to be in each other’s company.

“I met so many people online in the past year, and they’re all here,” said Keith Soljacich, a Chicago-based advertising executive who moonlights as a NFT collector. “I’m with my people, and I don’t have to hold back or translate.”

Jessica Ewud, an NFT artist who goes by the name Ragzy, said she thought the conference amounted to a coming-out party for the nonfungible token.

“It’s just all worlds coming together — arts, technology — and we’re celebrating this beautiful time of this booming industry,” she said.

“This, to me, is Woodstock,” said Kenn Bosak, a Philadelphia-based NFT collector, who had a small face tattoo that turned out, under close inspection, to be the letters N-F-T. (“I got it the day I became a millionaire,” he explained.)

Woodstock — which signified the mainstream embrace of a youthful counterculture — is actually a decent comparison to a gathering like NFT.NYC, albeit on a different scale. The crypto business is booming, with Bitcoin and Ethereum prices near all-time highs and new money arriving by the truckful. Big corporations are co-opting the language and aesthetics of crypto to market themselves to young customers, and celebrities are promoting crypto exchanges and releasing their own NFTs . And while there are still plenty of crypto skeptics, including U.S. regulators , the industry’s reputation as a haven of criminality and tax fraud is disappearing. Today, the emerging view seems to be that crypto is cool — something not even the truest believers would have argued until recently.

Much of this shift, I’d argue, is because of the crossover appeal of NFTs, which turned a thing people didn’t understand (crypto) into things they did (fan merch and premium loot), and which have gotten everyone from Coca-Cola to Martha Stewart to dip their toes in. More than $10 billion in NFTs were sold in the last quarter, a 700 percent increase over the previous quarter’s sales, according to DappRadar, a firm that tracks blockchain sales.

Growth like that screams bubble, of course, and many crypto enthusiasts will admit that the NFT market is in one. The hype around big, expensive NFTs — like Beeple’s $69 million sale earlier this year — has flooded the market with scammers and opportunists who are trying to make a quick buck. And while it’s entirely possible that NFTs will play some role in the future of art, it’s hard to argue with a straight face that a picture of a rock should sell for $1.3 million , or that a New York Times column’s fair-market value is more than $500,000 . (Although, trust me, I have tried.)

There were a few cautionary voices at NFT.NYC, including Gary Vaynerchuk, the popular social media marketer and founder of VaynerMedia. Mr. Vaynerchuk, who has his own line of “ VeeFriends ” NFTs, said during a keynote speech on Tuesday that he was worried that investors were jumping into NFTs recklessly, and that they could suffer catastrophic losses if the market collapses.

“Ninety percent of people in our space are in the business of trading to make a bag,” Mr. Vaynerchuk said. “I’m incredibly worried about people betting money they can’t afford.”

But smart investors are not buying seven-figure JPEGs these days. In fact, many of them are looking past NFT artwork entirely, to a new and glorious future they believe the entire NFT phenomenon is ultimately pointing us toward.

This phenomenon is “Web3” (ooh, ahh), the new, flashy industry term for a new kind of decentralized internet service that runs not on big servers owned by Silicon Valley mega-corporations like Google and Facebook, but on public blockchains, with token-based reward systems that allow users to profit from their online activities.

Web3 is part of the futuristic picture that Mark Zuckerberg painted last month, when he announced that Facebook was renaming itself Meta and focusing on creating immersive digital experiences and lifelike virtual reality games. But the vision goes well beyond social media or VR. Many of today’s young crypto entrepreneurs are itching to tear down the entire technological edifice of the modern world and rebuild it, piece by piece, on the blockchain.

If they succeed, your electronic health records will one day be an NFT, which you’ll be able to seamlessly transport between doctors. Songs from your favorite musician? Those will be NFTs, too, perhaps attached to a smart contract that allows you to share in their future royalties. Your kid’s Fortnite skins? NFTs, or something like them, and she’ll be able to transfer them from game to game.

Not much of this vision has arrived yet, but it’s fun to think about. And crypto innovators are salivating over the promise of a new, blank canvas.

“This is the most excited I’ve been about crypto since Ethereum came out in 2015,” said Fred Ehrsam, the co-founder of Paradigm, a crypto-focused investment firm. “Suddenly, the total scope of people who care about crypto has expanded by a factor of 10. It’s beyond digital money and beyond a new financial system. Crypto is culture now, too.”

Several tech veterans I bumped into in New York said that the Web3 frenzy reminded them of the blue-sky optimism of the late 2000s, when the founders of start-ups like Twitter and Foursquare ran around South By Southwest conferences throwing parties and trying to persuade investors that this “social networking” thing would take off.

The difference now, of course, is that no one needs to be convinced that crypto is a good business. It’s already a trillion-dollar industry that has spawned dozens of huge companies, created dynastic wealth for early adopters, and attracted many of the best and brightest minds in Silicon Valley.

And when I looked beyond the decadence in New York, I could see strands of Web3 starting to weave themselves into things real people might want.

On Monday night, for example, I went to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to attend a party thrown by Friends With Benefits, a new kind of leaderless crypto-club known as a “decentralized autonomous organization,” or DAO. Right now, DAOs — which have been described as “group chats with bank accounts” — are mostly an experimental plaything. But optimists think they could one day be a way that businesses and communities organize themselves.

Instead of selling normal tickets to the party — which featured a performance by the Russian punk-protest group Pussy Riot — Friends With Benefits required attendees to scan their crypto wallets at the door. If you owned at least five $FWB — the group’s membership tokens, which cost about $140 apiece as of party time — you got in. Bringing a plus-one required having 75 $FWB, or about $10,000. (There was a way to skip the line altogether: win an auction for the party’s official NFT , although that ended up selling for more than $50,000, making it a poor choice for the budget-conscious raver.)

All of this velvet-rope exclusivity might seem at odds with the claims of crypto enthusiasts that Web3 is a democratizing force that will expand access to financial services, level the playing field and get rid of legacy middlemen. And I did wonder, at times, if the Web3 kids were trying to tear down the old social hierarchy, only to replace it with a new, tokenized one where they were on top.

But the arrangement seemed to work for everyone — at least until around midnight, when the venue filled up and the $FWB token holders stuck on the sidewalk could no longer get in.

“I paid $600 to go to this party,” a man in line grumbled. “Oh well, at least the token might go up.”

Kevin Roose is a technology columnist and the author of “Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation.” More about Kevin Roose

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Friday Night Cocktail Reception Moved to Exclusive Tarpon Isle

We thank those who attended, and it was from our perspective enjoyable to participate with our fellow members in what was an unexpected and unique venue. It was also rewarding to see that almost all of you that signed up for the original venue were present, once again showing that NYYC members can navigate an occasional squall at sea and and enjoy the party ashore.

We on the NYYCF Board thank you for your continued generosity.

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Harry T. Rein

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Your support is crucial in preserving our past and safeguarding our future.

The New York Yacht Club Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charitable organization, EIN 20-8288446.

Your contributions to the Foundation are deductible to the extent permitted by law.

  This event was at capacity. Please register on the New York Yacht Club’s website.

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For sponsors and team members. Held this year again in the world famous “Model Room” at the New York Yacht Club, this event presents a unique opportunity for sponsors and firm principals to meet and mingle before the excitement of race day.

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2023 NYARC Industry Partners’ Regatta

Regatta Sponsors are invited to join the action and field a boat on Thursday, September 14th!  Interested?  Please contact any member of the committee, or fill out our contact form  for additional information.

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2023 New York Architects’ Regatta Challenge

Sponsors and guests are welcome to watch the competition from Hudson River Community Sailing Dyckman Marina, 348 Dyckman Street, Inwood, Manhattan.

Thursday, September 14th, 2023.

Following the conclusion of the Regatta, Sponsors, guests and participants are invited to a post-race party and award ceremony!

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Top 9 new places to eat, drink and party in the Hamptons this summer

Sag Harbor Tavern's menu will feature chef Billy Durney's signature Red Hook Tavern cheeseburger.

The Hamptons summer season is looking as busy as ever. Open houses for new listings have been packed , and the rental market is robust, so don’t expect Long Island Expressway traffic to subside anytime soon. Meanwhile, it’s still business as usual at East Hampton Town Airport, despite efforts to restrict small plane traffic, and Blade still promises to get you there from Manhattan via helicopter in under an hour.

As Memorial Day looms, visitors are already plotting their dining and nightlife reservations. One positive trend for locals and tourists who are looking outside the traditional summer window: Many of the new South Fork restaurants won’t just be seasonal engagements. Places like the buzzy bakery Carissa’s in East Hampton have shown they can stay busy even after the beach crowds depart, and a handful of soon-to-debut options will serve the local community year-round.

Billy Durney, chef and owner of Brooklyn’s celebrated Hometown BBQ, is one of the operators who’ll be feeding diners year-round when his Sag Harbor Tavern opens. He took over last summer’s short-lived Sag Harbor Kitchen to debut an extension of his popular throwback spot Red Hook Tavern, with his famed dry-aged cheeseburger in tow. Meanwhile, Joe Isidori, founder of Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beers — the chain known for its oversized novelty candy-encrusted ice cream shakes — will launch an outpost of his Arthur & Sons in Bridgehampton. And in May the Montauk Yacht Club emerges from its multimillion-dollar renovation with an expansive new waterside restaurant, Ocean Club Montauk.

The summer dining calendar will also be graced with pop-ups from notable New York chefs. Cedric Vongerichten, son of famed French chef Jean-Georges, is bringing his big-flavor Indonesian restaurants Wayan and Ma•dé to the home of Buttero, a cute little cottage by the East Hampton train station. And farther east in Montauk, the French incubator concept Fulgurances will host a series of dinners led by chefs such as Mads Refslund of the thrilling new Ilis.

Read on for the top South Fork restaurants and drinks-fueled spots you need to know before summer officially starts.

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Sag harbor tavern, sag harbor.

Sag Harbor will be home to the Hamptons most talked-about burger when Durney opens an outpost of his classic American spot Red Hook Tavern, complete with its signature, luscious American-cheese-topped patty and its deep vintage wine collection. The tavern, at 26 Bay St. in the former American Legion building, will have 40 seats inside and around 60 outside. There will be an expanded seafood selection, with new raw dishes and wood-fired cooking such as a grilled branzino. To start, the tavern will offer around 150 wines, ranging from bottles from the tiny, women-run Inconnu in California to Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, a revered Burgundy.

For decor, Durney says the restaurant will look similar to the Red Hook original, with a turn-of-the-century aesthetic, 1920s-era lighting and floral wallpaper that pays tribute to his grandmother Veronica Sullivan. (As a nurse during World War II, she was honored at the American Legion Hall in Brooklyn, the borough where Durney grew up.) Slated to open: Mid to late May; More information

Village Bistro, East Hampton 

In more Hampton burger news: A raclette cheeseburger will be featured on the menu at the unfussy French restaurant Village Bistro. It’s taking over the longstanding, cozy East Hampton Village space that previously housed Rowdy Hall, which relocated to Amagansett last November. New owners, real estate developer Adam Potter and local hospitality firm NSN Hospitality, are giving the place a bistro look characterized by a taupe, teal and salmon color scheme and anchoring the space with a 12-seat copper bar. Also on the menu: classics like duck confit salad and poached pear.  Slated to open: May 10; More information

Arthur & Sons, Bridgehampton 

Isidori is bringing his 1990s-era West Village Italian-American red sauce joint Arthur & Sons Out East. The place, at 203 Bridgehampton Sag Harbor Tpk., will have a 70-seat dining room, a patio and spacious 15-seat bar — and, says Isidori, an “old school-new school vibe.” In Bridgehampton, he’ll lean into seasonality and serve plates like lobster pomodoro over the tube-shaped pasta paccheri as well as a burrata Caprese salad with local tomatoes.

The menu will also include staples such as Isidori’s mom’s beef and Italian sausage meatballs with ricotta. The space features wall-to-ceiling honeyed wood paneling, along with red, green and yellow Tiffany lights and Rat Pack era art, giving the place a rustic feel. Grab a patio seat and try a pasta alongside a limoncello spritz.  Slated to open: May 23; More information

Il Pellicano and Bijoux, Southampton 

Nightlife impresario Kyky Conille (founder of the Meatpacking District’s now shuttered Provocateur) is taking the party to the former Blu Mar space at 136 Main St. in Southampton, expanding his Il Pellicano and Bijoux — the Little Italy Italian restaurant and 1920s Paris-inspired lounge opened in January — with a year-round restaurant and club. Celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito is designing the new Italian seafood-forward menu, which will be served in a clean space defined by forest green banquettes and gold accents. The menu will range from ubiquitous seafood towers to garlic and white-wine-braised shrimp and spring vegetable pasta.

At the adjacent Bijoux club, patrons will have the option to order bottle service or à la carte cocktails including a spritzy and tropical-tasting elixir with lemongrass-infused Campari, fresh strawberries and Champagne until 4 a.m.  Slated to open: May 23

Montauk Beach House Bar & Grill, Montauk

When the Montauk Beach House team decided to replace last year’s pizza and tacos menu, they turned to Yanni Papagianni, director of operations, who grew up in Cyprus. The popular and perpetually packed beach bar and grill is going Greek, with options such as a lamb burger with goat’s milk feta and cumin aioli alongside other Mediterranean staples like grilled beef kebab with pita and a pickled fennel and fresh-dill-accented Greek salad. The kitchen — which is open from breakfast through dinner — is overseen by Molyvos alum Andres Zeron. Menu items will be served on the property’s lawn along with produce-infused drinks from Nikola Jablanovic, formerly of the Surf Lodge — try the Melon Picante, made with ghost pepper tequila and watermelon juice. Slated to open: May 16; More information

Ocean Club Montauk at Montauk Yacht Club, Montauk 

Proper Hospitality — the developers behind chic West Coast hotels like Proper Santa Monica — makes its East Coast debut with a revamp of the Montauk Yacht Club, which opened in 1928 as a private social club. The property’s estimated $13 million facelift includes a 4,500-square-foot restaurant, Ocean Club Montauk, that’s an extension of chef Jarad McCarroll’s Caribbean-based upscale American spot, Ocean Club St Barths. The vast space has wraparound water views with three dining rooms that offer seating both indoors and out. On the menu: red snapper tartare as well as five-hour charcoal and wood roasted beef accented with smoked beetroot ketchup.

Prime seats include the U-shaped, six-seat chef’s table, where McCarroll preps his dishes in front of guests. To drink, there’s Italian rosato or the Sunset Sour, the bar team’s take on a negroni with Campari, gin, sweet vermouth, passionfruit and egg white. Slated to open: Early June; More information

Wayan + Ma•dé x Buttero, East Hampton

As a follow-up to last summer’s two-week residency in Amagansett, husband-and-wife team Cedric and Ochi Vongerichten are staging a full-scale takeover in East Hampton, just a few minutes walk from the train station. They’re bringing their Nolita Indonesian restaurants Wayan and Ma•dé to Buttero from May 24 through Sept. 2. The best seats will be those on the patio, where guests can sample a gin-spiked Calamansi Fizz alongside local heirloom tomatoes with samba oelek vinaigrette, ginger turmeric-dressed fluke sashimi as well as Wayan’s signature wavy wheat noodles with lobster in a creamy black-pepper-flecked sauce.

Fulgurances, Montauk

Fulgurances, in collaboration with sustainable seafood wholesaler Dock to Dish, is branching out to Montauk. The Parisian chef incubator, that runs the Laundromat space in Brooklyn, has taken over an outdoor space at Inlet Seafood Restaurant with four dinners planned from July 1 to Aug. 26. The lineup includes Nicholas Tamburo (Claud), Victoria Blamey (Blanca), Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson (Frenchette), and Mads Refslund (Ilis). Each chef will highlight the area’s stellar local seafood, cooked over open-fire. The $250 to $280 six-course meals will include a wine pairing. Fulgurances will announce the specific dates on social media during the first week of May. More information

Rosewood Mayakoba at Topping Rose House, Bridgehampton

Zapote Bar, the drinking spot inside the luxe hotel Rosewood Mayakoba in Riviera Maya, Mexico, that ranked No. 11 on the World’s 50 Best Bars North America list , will pop up on July 12-13 at boutique hotel Topping Rose House. Joshua Monaghan, bar director at Zapote, is planning to serve cocktails off his newly launched “Call of the Wild” menu inspired by the Yucatan Peninsula’s Mayan heritage and landscape. Alongside drinks like Mono (a mix of tequila, sour orange liquor, kiwi, guava, green apple and dehydrated lime bitters), guests can sample some of the property’s signature plates including sweet-and-spicy catch-of-the-day ceviche with jicama and orange as well as melty Oaxaca cheese shrimp tacos with habanero mayo. More information

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