Remsenburg, New York

Remsenburg is a hamlet located in the Town of Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.

Most of the early settlers of Speonk came west from Southampton and Bridgehampton in the 1740s to clear the forests and build farms.

An 1897 Long Island Rail Road catalog listed Speonk, noting that that name "certainly sounds like the call of a frog."

He wrote many of the escapades of Bertie Wooster and his manservant, Jeeves, from a home on Basket Neck Lane in Remsenburg.

Other residents of note include the songwriter Frank Loesser, who wrote for Broadway shows including Guys and Dolls; the playwright Guy Bolton, who collaborated with Wodehouse on Anything Goes; Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee; Sandy Becker, a New York children's television host, Dave Garroway, the original host of NBC's Today Show when it first aired in January 1952, and Leo-Arthur Kelmenson, advertising executive known for his association with Lee Iacocca and his advertising campaign for Chrysler.