{"id":52683,"date":"2016-05-24T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=52683"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:17:47","slug":"montauk-without-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/52683\/montauk-without-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Do Montauk Like a Local (And Without a Car)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b> Hailing from a small beach town myself, I get the whole local pride thing. It\u2019s a surf ritual (Locals Only) and a love of talk of times passed, when this beach was still public, not private, and that venue was still cool. As a major summer destination for New Yorkers, Montauk has undergone swift changes in the past few years, but maintains an air of edge and the bohemian spirit that made it so appealing in the first place. Strong local loyalties are nowhere more palpable than Montauk, but if you treat it nicely, you can go where the locals go and be welcomed with salty, sunburnt arms.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Montauk is known lovingly as \u201cThe End\u201d and indeed it is located on the easternmost tip of Long Island. Find your way there by walking from town to Ditch Plains, where you\u2019ll pass a wooden staircase into the cliffs\u2014a stairway to heaven in its own right with homes like those. <\/span><\/p>\n

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