Take the Hampton Jitney out to Eastern Long Island

Summer is fast approaching and for City dwellers who need to escape the Hampton Jitney is a for-profit bus company based in Southampton, NY, operating three primary routes from the East End of Long Island that’s The Hamptons and the North Fork for you city slickers to New York City. There are also charter services, along with local transit bus service in eastern Suffolk County under contract with Suffolk County Transit.

Hampton Jitney was founded in 1974 with a van from James Davidson, a former advertising art director, who lived in the Hamptons and wanted to establish a convenient means for traveling in the Hamptons, especially for those from the city who often do not have a driver’s license. Initially the company used vans instead of the current buses, operating on the theory of a share taxi service among the little communities of The Hamptons. The company has retained a name which no longer describes its main service and fleet.

The Jitney has been featured in many TV shows and films such as Gossip Girl and Sex and the City . It has become a right of passage for New York’s upwardly mobile and is a convenient ,comfortable and low cost way to get out of the city and off to the play ground of the rich and famous.

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