Fire Island News

The Islip Town board will vote at Tuesday's board meeting to enter into a contract with Verizon Wireless to lease land on Captree Island for a cell tower.

Congressman Tim Bishop visited the site of the Shinnecock Inlet dredge with New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr., Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman, officials from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and other local officials on Monday.

The way a kid feels that day before the last day of school before summer vacation? That's the way Fire Island fans feel before the long Memorial Day weekend.

By claiming public spaces for artistic enrichment, New York City's non-profit arts organization BOFFO continues to create ambitious participatory art projects.

In North Merrick road construction. two lanes closed on The Southern St Pkwy WB between Merrick Ave/X24 and Nassau Rd/X21 in Nassau Cnty In North Merrick road construction.

Superstorm Sandy wrought terrible destruction, but it may have had at least one benefit: Healthier conditions for marine life in Long Island's Great South Bay.

Due to strong ticket demand, Patti Issues , Ben Rimalower's acclaimed solo show about his lifelong love of Patti LuPone and his own relationship with his gay father, will play an additional June 14 performance in Chicago.

This 2010 aerial photo shows that a peninsula, once present at the north edge of Clam Pond Cove near the community of Saltaire is no longer there.

Planning and design for rebuilding downtown Montauk's beaches, which were severely eroded after last fall's Hurricane Sandy, will continue at 100-percent federal expense by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Congressman Tim Bishop and state and local officials representing East Hampton Town announced Tuesday that federal funding to begin the process of rebuilding heavily eroded beaches on the South Fork, including Montauk, has been approved by the federal Office of Management and Budget as a part of the implementation of the US Army Corps of Engineers' ... (more)

A Patchogue kayaker found hanging onto a pylon near Fire Island after flipping his craft and losing his paddle was rescued by Suffolk County police Saturday night, officials said.

He swam to a small island and rested before trying to swim to shore but the current was too strong.

In the mid-1970s, Tom Bianchi, a young lawyer living in Manhattan, started bringing a new toy out to Fire Island: a SX-70 Polaroid camera.

Village officials on Fire Island are pursuing a real estate transfer tax that they would use to fund capital improvement and beach replenishment projects.

Memorial Day weekend came and went. How did the coastal bars and restaurants fare in this first post-Sandy summer weekend? Plus: The bike share program has started and transportation commission Janette Sadik-Khan discusses how it's going; international news with The Atlantic 's Jeffrey Goldberg ; how to run for office as an outsider; and the ... (more)

In Suffolk Cnty slow traffic on The L.I.E./I-495 WB between X59/Ocean Ave and X55/Motor Pkwy due to vehicles slowing to look at accident In Suffolk Cnty slow traffic on The L.I.E./I-495 WB between X59/Ocean Ave and X55/Motor Pkwy due to vehicles slowing to look at accident In Carle Place accident.

In Smithtown long-term road construction on Rt-347/Nesconset Hwy WB between Rt-111/Hauppauge Rd and Rt-454/Veterans Memorial Hwy in Hauppauge In Smithtown long-term road construction on Rt-347/Nesconset Hwy WB between Rt-111/Hauppauge Rd and Rt-454/Veterans Memorial Hwy in Hauppauge In Hauppauge long-term road construction on Rt-347/Nesconset Hwy ... (more)

A Rockville Centre man was rescued Saturday after he started to drift into the Atlantic Ocean and became stranded in a strong current off Fire Island , Suffolk County police said in a news release.

Amy Pearl and Janet Babin have made it to "The End" of coast check - they're in Montauk and even though it is wet and cloudy, they are on the beach.

WNYC's Amy Pearl and Janet Babin are making their way along the coast for a pre-Memorial Day "coastcheck" to see what's changed since Sandy hit.