Hamptons' Rachael Ray, David Koch Can Fly Skivvies Without Jail
By Meg Tirrell and Melissa Moser
Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- They may not want to air their dirty linen in public, but residents of the Hamptons have the go-ahead to fly their clean laundry.
Southampton, 90 miles (140 kilometers) from New York at the eastern end of Long Island, rescinded its ban on clotheslines in May. That doesn't sit well with residents who want to preserve an aura of elegance in the town of mansions and rolling lawns.
``The whole point of the Hamptons is how beautiful it is,'' said
Steven Gaines, a writer who has lived in Wainscott, a hamlet of East Hampton, since the early 1970s. ``If your neighbor's drying underwear is in the way, it detracts.''
Southampton, a town of 54,712, is known for its rich and famous, including television chef
Rachael Ray and
David H. Koch, ranked 37th on Forbes magazine's 2008 list of the world's richest people.
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