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"Riding around: marching to a different drummer the 2004 BMW R1200C Montauk. Rider; April 1, 2004; Hansen, Jim ... repeats, this newest creation, the R1200C Montauk, will continue to be embraced by a core ... closer to mainstream thinking, the new Montauk (named after the historic resort town ... the brand's unique qualities. With the Montauk, BMW is betting the changes found on this ..." BMW Motorcycle named after Montauk! Where George Washington had a lighthouse built. Unfortunately, around 1910, the native Montaukett were dispossessed of the land in Federal court, (some are in Michigan) which I think may have met in the "Tweed Courthouse," (finished by Mayor Fernando Wood, [recently was to be the Museum of New York City, Mayor Bloomberg stopped that, NYC Board of Education is there now]), over one of the doorways, is painted "Suffolk County Federal Court" on the glass (southeast corner room, 1st floor). They've fixed up the courthouse, it was a mess, some of the basement casement windows were filled with water, looked like aquariums! There's a locked tunnel from there to City Hall, and a power tunnel to the Surrogate Court across the street I worked on in Chambers Street. It once had one closet elevator, with the grand stairways. Seen sometimes on "Law and Order" for courthouse interiors well lit by its central glass dome, with glass blocks in some of the floors also. I also worked in City Hall Park on "Almshouse" burials [and others apparently] and found two burials together that required that the proposed water fountain be moved so as not to disturb the "conjoined" burials. So much for the Indian motorcycle, huh? Other Montauk "facts" (same source): Rought Riders Saga / Recalling Montauk's Camp Wikoff Newsday; August 14, 1998; Bill Bleyer Rought Riders Saga / Recalling Montauk's Camp Wikoff By Bill Bleyer. STAFF WRITER ... hundred years ago, the rolling plains of Montauk were dotted with hundreds of white Army ... his Rough Riders - who were shipped to Montauk for quarantine, medical By George, It's Still Here / Built by President Washington in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, the Montauk Point Lighthouse has withstood wind, time and tide. Newsday; June 2, 1996; GEORGE DEWAN ... the Revolutionary War, the Montauk Point Lighthouse has withstood ... would build great fires at Montauk Point to call council meetings ... Some maritime mishaps near Montauk Point have left their names on the maps. In 1862, the huge, double ... Andy Warhol property divided. (Montauk Long Island, New York property owned by estate of Andy Warhol subdivided; 15.1 acres donated to The Nature Conservancy) Real Estate Weekly; September 8, 1993 Joseph A. Grotto, president of J. Grotto & Associates, Inc. reports a completed partition of the Montauk Long Island beach front property owned by the Estate of Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey. Grotto, and Joseph Grotto, Jr., acted as ... STEVE WICK Newsday 05-07-1998 LONG ISLAND: OUR STORY / The Mogul Of Montauk / Carl Fisher created Miami Beach, but his plan to duplicate the feat on LI ended in ruin. SIDEBAR: WORKS BY FISHER ADORN MONTAUK. (See end of text.) BY STEVE WICK. STAFF WRITER Carl Fisher was a blustering, cigar-chomping promoter. Above all, he was a dreamer. Born in rural Indiana in 1874, Fisher was only 12 years old when he began making money by staging downhill sled races to advertise a dry-goods store. He dropped out of school and opened a bicycle shop at 17. His goal, he told friends, was to be a wealthy inventor. ... MITCHELL FREEDMAN Newsday 06-18-2004 ON GUARD IN MONTAUK Keeping water at bay Federal study may look at restoring natural flow of sand BY MITCHELL FREEDMAN. STAFF WRITER In a few months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open bids on a project to dredge out the boat channel in Lake Montauk, a conduit used by the busiest commercial fishing fleet in New York State. The sand and silt will be pumped out and deposited just to the west of the rock jetties protecting the inlet, creating a beach. But it won't last. In a year or two - three if the weather is unusually good - the houses ... Of course there's always more. Interestingly, Theodore Roosevelt's friend and illustrator, Frederic Remington has a museum way up on the Canadian border with New York in Ogdensberg, NY. I was doing survey along the St. Lawrence Seaway, to test "return properties," (taken in "eminent domain" on the U.S. side. The Fifth Amendment was also added to require just compensation. The Bill of Rights was a sticking point in New York State, who would not sign the U.S. Constitution until there was one) in the water-powered electrical generation/shipping locks system, co-run US/Canada with a dam at Messina, NY, for archaeological potential as required by law. We visited the Frederic Remington Art Museum (303 Washington Street Ogdensberg, New York. Interesting to see an Amish carriage tied up to a light pole in a parking lot nearby there, quite a few in upstate New York, split off from the PA ("roaring branch"?) in Schoharie, NY I once read). The museum had just opened a new exhibit room, to accommodate the larger paintings, which had not been seen. One was interesting, a "composite" of a "Rough Riders" charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish American War. It showed white troops and a token African-American together, though that was this symbolic painting, not the reality of those that served there, it was pointed out by the the docent or guide, as an "icon" I suppose or symbolic depiction. If one is interested in the American West, it could be a "must see" for the well-known bronzes and paintings of scenes that were disappearing as Frederic Remington and Theodore Roosevelt witnessed. Some of it reminds me of the Roosevelt place in Oyster Bay on Long Island. There's a room of collected materials, as if Frederic Remington was still around there someplace. The Canadian fort just across the St. Lawrence River, built after the War of 1812, in the 1830's I think, just in case, is very interesting too. Many of the steel bridges across the St. Lawrence were built by Mohawk natives who also work or worked in high steel construction in New York City. There are interesting stone "lock-like" structures in some places in the river that have no known time dating them, yet.