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But local officials fear the added residents could spark a second wave of the coronavirus
After spending six months out of the city, those residents can list the Hamptons as their primary residence and avoid paying New York City 2020 income taxes

New Yorkers who escaped to the Hamptons during the pandemic have hunkered down for the year as they avoid paying city taxes and some rental properties charged $300,000 ahead of winter.

The arrival of the coronavirus pandemic prompted a number of Big Apple residents to flee to the affluent communities along Long Island’s South Fork.

The Hamptons have long been a coveted holiday destination for wealthy Americans, who breezed into the towns for summer and left just as quickly with the arrival of autumn.

Normally, Labor Day Weekend marked the final ‘hoorah’ for vacationing New Yorkers but local residents said those people haven’t left yet - and there’s no sign they will anytime soon.

‘Nobody is f****** leaving,’ one resident told Vanity Fair. ‘The town is bursting at the seams.

The publication reports that the population in East Hampton, where the median household income is $103,000, usually records a year-round population of just over 21,000 people.

But in the summer, it’s estimated that the population quadruples in size.

Over the years, the Tuesday after Labor Day has been dubbed ‘Tumbleweed Tuesday’ for the array of empty wine bottles and vacant beaches left behind.

During the pandemic, however, businesses across the Hamptons have said no such exodus has happened this year.

‘I officially canceled Tumbleweed Tuesday on Facebook because it’s not happening this year,’Judi Bistrian, of East Hampton’s Reutershan Firewood, told Vanity Fair.