Fire Island News

If new Chelsea club Juliet wants to be the West Side's answer to The Box, it was clever in hosting Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny's new Tuesday night party, Bon Bon.

Opera fans are a contentious lot, furiously sparring over the relative worth of leading singers, but a rare consensus has emerged around Joyce DiDonato, the down-to-earth mezzo with the gleaming voice and charming blog .

The Vermont brewer's combo includes three bottles each of Lucky Kat , a snappy IPA; #9 , a refreshing, very smooth "not-quite-pale" number; Winter Odd Notion 09 , a diverting sour ale; and Howl , a wintry brew.

Last week's storm wiped away several feet of sand at Smith Point Park beach, exposing the dune's sea grass roots.

A fire broke out at a house on Hemlock Drive in Farmingdale in the early hours of Oct.

A week in the life of actor, musician and Chatterbox host Seth Rudetsky. I'm sitting on a lounge chair on a beautiful wooden deck, looking through billowy white curtains lazily blowing in the wind, at a pool below.

Tori Petersen and Noel Fuestel filed a lawsuit against the village's mayor and village board.

If you're going to be in the Bay Shore area, the Suffolk County Police Department wants to warn that you might see what looks like a giant emergency there today.

The 11 a.m. exercise will include a staging of helicopters, ferries and police boats bringing casualties from Fire Island.

The Stonewall riots in 1969 changed almost everything about gay life in New York City, and that famous event is now, in one respect, like Woodstock: far more people claim to have been there than actually were.

Bank vaults have been slammed shut this year to small businesses, but entrepreneurs are pulling cash from other places to get their ventures off the ground.

A fire damaged more than a dozen rooms of a Cherry Grove hotel early Tuesday morning.

You've probably heard of a beached whale. But what about a beached plane? A pilot safely landed his small plane on Fire Island beach in suburban New York on Sunday morning after he lost engine power.

Yes, the Fire Island Pines may have lost four homes this year when this island's eponymous element broke out twice in six months, but it certainly could have been worse.

It is a fitting memorial. John Fritz was an environmentalist, birder, surf fisher and chair of the Suffolk County Parks Board of Trustees who had proposed building a fishing pier at Smith Point County Park on Fire Island's eastern tip back in 2001.

Joe Carlucci, a world champion pizza tosser performs in Little Italy as part of the Summer In Little Italy event.

The sun began sinking over Great South Bay, down the darkening blue sky into a thin scrim of clouds.

Ferries from several points on Long Island carry passengers, their bags and sometimes their dogs out to Fire Island during the summer season.

In this Sept. 14, 2008 photo, the beach on the south shore of Fire Island, N.Y. gets emptier in... In this Sept.

On Sunday afternoon, a few dozen ashen-faced night owls, - looking for a respite from 90-degree temperatures - took to the beach.