A beacon of gaudy grandeur catering to the gay community for the last 68 years, The Belvedere Guest House in Cherry Grove on Fire Island is being offered for sale. Listed with Mitch Muroff of Newton, ...

Forged in fire. For decades, Fire Island Pines, the historic gay community located on the edge of the barrier island, has been a reliable haven for gay men who hop on a ferry to let loose every summer ...

This is a eulogy for the Fire Island share house. A generation ago, enterprising 20- and 30-somethings would sign a lease for a beach house for the summer, from at least Memorial Day through Labor Day ...

Nigel Smith, an Australian architect, first went to Fire Island Pines in 2004, when he was twenty-eight and newly out of the closet. “It was heaven,” he said, not long ago. He spent days in a Speedo ...

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 ...

For decades local ecologists have watched with concern as Fire Island’s burgeoning deer populations consumed native understory plants, threatening the health of the Sunken Forest Preserve’s delicate ...

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 ...

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 ...