Mission

East Hampton Town Lifeguard Administrative Office Mission

The Amagansett Life-Saving Station, in addition, is home to the East Hampton Town Lifeguard Administrative Office.  The East Hampton Town Lifeguards are tasked with the seasonal supervision of the town’s eight ocean beaches and three bay beaches in the hamlets of Amagansett, Springs, and Montauk.

From its headquarters in the historical Amagansett Life-Saving Station and 12 towers around the South Fork of Long Island, this staff of approximately 100 lifeguards is dispatched to respond to waterborne emergencies all along the district’s coastline using trucks, ATVs, and PWCs.   Aside from its primary, first-responder, mission, the agency takes a leading role in promoting water safety and world-class lifeguarding.

Preserving the Station

The Amagansett Station was abandoned after World War II and in 1966 was auctioned by the Coast Guard. Joel Carmichael purchased the station and moved it to Bluff Road where it had a new life as a residence. In 2007 the Carmichael family donated the Amagansett Life-Saving Station to the Town of East Hampton and it was moved back to its exact original location on Atlantic Avenue.

On May 17, 2007, the East Hampton Town Board designated the Amagansett Life-Saving Station a historic landmark by resolution 2007-43. The board appointed an advisory committee of residents, which then became the nonprofit U.S. Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Society, overseeing the six-year restoration of the Station to its original 1902 design, an undertaking guided by the comprehensive Historic Structure Report commissioned from Historic Services Director Robert Hefner.

Who We Are

Board of Trustees

David B. Lys, President
Michael N. Cinque, Vice President
Stephen M. Marzo, Treasurer
Nina D. Gillman, Secretary

Gary Adamek
Britton P.D. Bistrian
James S. Bradley
Dakota Arkin Cafourek
Isabel S. Carmichael
David Cataletto
Elena P. Glinn