Thousands of people have once again descended upon a stretch of sand on a barrier island in the Great South Bay, an approximately 700-home community with an enormously outsized cultural influence: The ...

The Fire Island beaches look as beautiful as postcards with plentiful dunes and wide expanses, in part due to massive amounts of sand used to replenish them. And summer winds have been shifting sand ...

There was no sleeping on Fire Island last weekend. While that may be the norm for some visitors of the gay beach oasis, it becomes almost mandatory during Pines Party weekend. Now on its 26th year, ...

A wave of relief washed over Fire Island this summer thanks to new funding intended to prevent the beloved shoreline from becoming New York’s own Atlantis. The money — $1.7 billion secured in this ...

Fire Island Pines, a historic and iconic gay community, is undergoing a major transformation under new ownership. Courtesy of Mitch Muroff, Esq. Forged in fire. For decades, Fire Island Pines, the ...