78 Pine Neck Avenue

Compass puts the cottage steps from Circle Beach, in the Pine Neck area of Sag Harbor. The location trail on the listing runs New York, Suffolk County, Sag Harbor, Noyac, 11963, and the subarea is filed as Sag Harbor Area, which is the plain way to describe a place that answers to two names at once. The school district is Sag Harbor Union Free. Sag Harbor Elementary, prekindergarten through fifth grade, and Pierson Middle High School, sixth through twelfth, both sit three miles off. The listing puts the village minutes away, with Cromer's Market, the local stores and the restaurants. The record is thin in the places a record usually talks. Year built is blank and so is lot size. Compass answers no to new construction, no to a corner lot, no to a cul de sac, no to trees on the lot. It is not near the train station and not on the jitney line. What the record does carry is beach rights, a water view and heat, and the MLS gave the whole thing the title Relax At Waters Edge. Pets are allowed. The listing has been on the market, in one season or another, since July 15 2021.

Compass files the architectural style as Beach Cottage, which is accurate to the square foot. One storey, 876 of them, two bedrooms and one bath, filed as a single family residence let by the season. The amenity list puts the primary bedroom and the bathroom on the first floor, which is the only floor, and adds a breakfast area. A front porch takes the water view. There is an outdoor shower. The fireplace is decorative only, not functional, and the listing says so plainly rather than letting a photograph imply otherwise. The house has done well for its size. Hamptons Magazine, The New York Times and Cottages and Gardens have all put it on a page. What is on offer here is the quiet half of the calendar, from after Labor Day through May 28 2027. The listing's own suggestion for the months in between is working on your memoirs, or just catching up on life, which is about the right ambition for 876 square feet.