Is the Mayor of an Exclusive Hamptons Enclave a Squatter? It’s Complicated Mayor Jesse Warren’s landlord happens to be one of his predecessors. He says a political rivalry is the reason he’s getting kicked out. Jesse Warren, the mayor of Southampton, packed his boxes over the weekend, preparing to move after a fight with his landlord, a former mayor himself.Credit...Johnny Milano for The New York Times Published Feb. 10, 2021Updated March 17, 2021 In one of the Hamptons’ most elite enclaves, amid shingle-style mansions and beachfront estates, a man has been living without authorization in a two-bedroom apartment in a house on David Whites Lane. His lease expired months ago. His latest rent check has gone uncashed.