The realization that development has hit the last possible tract of land at the end of an island is like finishing an eight ball at 4am and coming to grips with the fact that there's no more left, no hope of getting any more, nowhere to go, and the sun’s coming up. Montauk, or The End, might just be earning its nickname at last.

Apparently there’s a "new Gridskipper." Check out those nasty comments underneath the travel blog’s write-up of the Surf Lodge, Montauk’s new place-to-be. They both express anger at their beloved travel tome’s sudden propensity for what—writing about a new hotel? Isn’t that what a travel website ought to do? We hope that in also writing about the Surf Lodge, no readers are alienated, but here goes nothing.