Reed, commander Sector Long Island Sound. “We are stricken by this loss,” said Coast Guard Capt. I’ve never heard a bad thing about him out here.” He’s been a builder out here for a long, long time. Local resident Bob Miller said, “It’s so sad. Krupinski was so close with lifestyles queen Stewart, “he took his plane and got her” when she was released from prison in 2005, Wallace added. Southwest flight attendant breaks back during landing so rough she thought plane crashed Plane makes dramatic crash landing on California highway before bursting into flames
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“He just finished the Ladies’ Village Improvement Society. He does a lot of things in the village,” Wallace said. You walk into a restaurant and everyone’s looking up and saying, ‘It’s Ben! It’s Ben Krupinski!’”Įast Hampton gallery owner Terry Wallace said Ben Krupinski would often be at the controls of the plane. He was very nice to me even though we were competitors.”įamous adman Jerry Della Femina once told The New York Times, “In East Hampton, Ben’s the star. Bonnie sold me many lots,” Farrell recalled. “His wife Bonnie was a Bistrian, and a huge land owner. “Truly a great builder that built the biggest and most expensive homes,” Farrell said. He counted moguls such as Leon Black among his clients - but would pitch in and repair a broken sidewalk out of his own pocket, said those who knew him.įellow developer Joe Farrell called Krupinski “a legendary builder.” Will Maerov Patrick McMullanīen Krupinski, an East Hampton native, pilot and golf lover, rose to prominence building lavish homes for Stewart, Joel and rocker Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.
“I wish we could have got there sooner,” he said of seeing a piece of the plane’s nose in the water. One was recovered by an East Hampton lifeguard using a Jet Ski, and the other by the Coast Guard, an agency spokeswoman for the Coast Guard told Newsday.Ī pocketbook was plucked from the water by commercial fisherman Dave Aripotch, who told Newsday he responded to the scene after mariners were given notice of the crash. Two bodies were recovered by Saturday night, the U.S. All of us.”Ĭops blockading the couple’s home on Three Mile Harbor Road asked a reporter to give the family privacy. They were the couple that was together forever.”Īs for the restaurant’s workers, Nielsen said, “We’re broken. She added, still crying, “They were together forever. “They were coming here for dinner tonight, and then going to the movies. The family “flew all the time,” Nielsen said. “Their granddaughter, Charlotte, is 15 or 16. He was a student at Georgetown,” she said. their grandson Will had worked here for the summer in the past. “They were generous beyond belief,” sobbed longtime employee Jeanne Nielsen. Instead, the restaurant was shuttered, a sign explaining that the closing was “due to a family emergency.” The couple’s real-estate empire is worth a reported $150 million, and included the popular East Hampton restaurant Citta Nuova, where grieving workers and patrons gathered Saturday night in shock, some in tears.īodies recovered from plane crash off Long Island coast The couple, known and loved by locals as “Bennie and Bonnie” - high-school sweethearts well known for their charitable endeavors - had been expected there for dinner that night. The Krupinskis had owned the plane since at least the 1980s, Gardiner added.
“There was a very nasty thunderstorm going on. The cause of the crash is under investigation, but local pilot Bill Gardiner noted that the weather had turned stormy. The Piper PA-31 Navajo plane went down about a mile off shore near Indian Wells Beach at about 2:50 p.m., officials told The Post. East Hampton police confirmed the trio were aboard the flight, along with 47-year-old pilot Jon Dollard.Īll are believed to have perished in the crash, sources said. Hamptons “Builder to the Stars” Ben Krupinski, 70, was feared among the dead, along with his wife, Bonnie Bistrian Krupinski, 70, and their 22-year-old grandson, Will Maerov. Four people were presumed dead after a private plane - carrying a prominent East Hampton builder who crafted luxury mansions for Martha Stewart, Billy Joel and others - crashed into the Atlantic off Amagansett, LI, on Saturday.
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