Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Bridgehampton, NY

Bridgehampton is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Southampton on the South Fork of Suffolk County, Long Island, in the heart of the Hamptons.

Bridgehampton got its name from the Sagg Bridge, built in 1686 by Ezekiel Sandford across Sagg Pond to link the settlements of Mecox and Sagaponack; the community itself was originally called Bullhead.

Settlers from Southampton, founded in 1640, first moved into an area the Shinnecock people knew as Sagaponack and Mecox, at the head of Sagg Pond.

The notorious 18th-century counterfeiter and memoirist Stephen Burroughs helped found Bridgehampton's first library in 1793, and volumes he purchased could still be found in the Bridgehampton Public Library as late as 2002.

The 2020 census counted 2,953 people in Bridgehampton, living in 1,136 households.

More than half of Bridgehampton's homes sit empty much of the year: of its 2,632 housing units counted in 2020, 56.8% were vacant, reflecting its large stock of seasonal and second homes.

Bridgehampton hosts the Hampton Classic, one of the most prestigious equestrian show-jumping events in the United States.

The Bridgehampton Race Circuit, a 2.85-mile, thirteen-turn road course near the hamlet, figured prominently in American automobile racing before being converted into a golf course and homes.

The Bridgehampton Union Free School District runs a single K-12 school, the Bridgehampton School, built in 1930 on Montauk Highway; the private Hayground School is also located in the hamlet.

Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, the Boston Red Sox star who won the Triple Crown in 1967, was born and raised in Bridgehampton.