Is the North Fork the 'Un-Hamptons?'

A recent New York Times piece has turned the spotlight on a culture clash that may be dividing the North and South Forks of Long Island.

"The overachieving one, the South Fork, is starting to flirt with being overbuilt, overhyped and overcrowded ... The North Fork is a wallflower and an underdog by comparison, but alluring for its own vistas and virtues," according to the Times. "It is building an identity based on what it is not."

But some might argue that the North Fork may be turning more and more like the Hamptons. The revival of Greenport over the last decade to the point of being named a top yachting port, traffic troubles on two-lane parts of Sound Avenue, celebrity sightings even this week in Greenport, and a claim some Hamptons joints might take umbrage with – one North Fork winery has advertised its parties as having the "sexiest people on Long Island" – you might say North Fork isn't becoming "un-Hamptons," but rather slowly, "more Hamptons."

Do you think the North Fork is resembling the Hamptons more and more, or is the "amalgam of scenic hamlets" branching further away from its cousins to the south? Are you happy in the direction the region is heading?

Or is the North Fork just the North Fork, and the Hamptons, the Hamptons - end of story?

Click here to read the New York Times story.