The main character Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and budding novelist with a wife of twenty years and four children. Alison is a young waitress and wife from Montauk, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds in Montauk and is shot at locations in and around the town.
The Affair is a popular streaming television show that explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship aided and abetted by the scenic and gossipy backdrop of Montauk, a fishing village turned hipster surfer resort at the wilder extremes of New York’s Long Island. This is my journey to where it all began..
Yes, the ‘loss of Memory Motel’ is a less glamorous kind of ‘affair’ in my journey. However, it does work as a great segue to the next major scene from The Affair – The Stables at Deep Hollow Ranch.
This location is on the east side of town en route to the lighthouse, across from Warhol’s compound reached by a gravel road to the lonely sea and sky, sitting on a dune by a mostly deserted beach.
The stables sit across the main road from the Warhol Compound exit and are In reality the family-owned stable, as featured prominently in The Affair, as Cole’s family-owned stables where Cole works and is married to Alison, who is having an affair with Noah.
When walking around this working farm and stable you feel like you could literally step into the path of any one of the show’s characters at any moment, while being careful not to step on other matters associated with horses. Yes, this is busy working stable and captures the moment of the show that was shot here!
