This was perhaps the greatest bifurcation of the labor force seen since the days of land barons.
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Joe McKendrick,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
Lipstye and others worried that Shelter Island was becoming a place dominated by wealthy barons who weren’t necessarily invested in the community — a place, in short, like the South Fork.
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