Fire Island News

The T Magazine style department is packing its bags for the holiday weekend. Here's the down low on where everyone is going, and more important, what they will be wearing.

Lauded by Out Magazine, The New York Times, CBS News on LOGO and The Village Voice, the Fire Island Dance Festival returns to Fire Island Pines for a trio of outdoor party/performances on Saturday, July 18 and Sunday, July 19, 2009.

The exterior of the newly opened Reform Club in Amagansett, N.Y. The New York area's fabled summer retreats - the Hamptons, Fire Island, etc.

A Coast Guard crew medically evacuated a man from a pleasure craft after the vessel ran aground on a sandbar in Fire Island Inlet around 2:40 a.m. today.

Relive the halcyon days when "flight attendants" were "stewardesses" who had saucy reputations.

The Police Department of Suffolk County, New York, issued a press release on June 19 about the arrest of a man in Central Islip, RI, who was paced under arrest for an alleged hate crime carried out in the early morning hours that same day.

Dear Dog Lady, I recently have been reading how some animals were bred for specific reasons.

"While the State of New York holds its fair share of National Historic Sites and National Monuments, Long Island offers access to the state's only National Park on the ocean- Fire Island National Seashore- and it is A spectacular site.

The fastest - and potentially cheapest - way to replace the deteriorating outfall pipe at Suffolk's largest sewage treatment plant will likely be to dig a 2.6-mile tunnel beneath the Great South Bay , according to engineers hired by the county.

Call him a hometown boy! Newly appointed Fire Island National Seashore Superintendent Chris Soller has been something of a fixture on the beach since he was a FINS management assistant in the mid-1980s. He and his partner, Jack Curry, have also owned a home in the Fire Island Pines since 2000.

A Good Samaritan rescued a person in the water after their 27-foot boat became engulfed in flames about one mile east of Coast Guard Station Fire Island, N.Y., at 2:10 p.m. today.

A fast-moving fire destroyed two neighboring homes in the Fire Island Pines on May 20.

Experts from the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have for the first time positively identified the voice of a singing blue whale about 70 miles off the Long Island and New York City coast, closer than ever, Cornell and the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced.

NEWPORT a ' A Coast Guard rescue crew rescued three boaters bound for Newport off Fire Island, N.Y., Thursday morning after their 40-foot sailboat ran aground in heavy fog.

The Summer Season is upon us, and Fire Island is set to burn all summer long. From caring for our gay elders to shaking a leg for AIDS fundraising to Pine-tastic parties, here's a quick look at what lies ahead.

May 14, 2009 5:47 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jennifer McLogan FIRE ISLAND, N.Y. While New York struggles with crushing deficits, layoffs, cutbacks, tax increases and transit hikes, an exclusive Fire Island seasonal village is hoping to qualify as a "distressed community" for your taxpayer dollars.

Dining on Fire Island, our trip pick of the week , most often consists of stepping into your backyard, firing up the grill, and bbq-ing yourself a brat or a fresh cut of fish from the cooler.

While we love biking in the city, sometimes it gets to be a bit much. Contending with horn-honking, overzealous cabbies, disappearing bike lanes and a maze of cars and buses is enough to make even the most determined peddler long for greener pastures.

Happy 90th birthday, Pete Seeger! I have loved this man and his music since I was 14 years old and first heard him playing the banjo at Buck's Rock Work Camp.

Elected and agency officials joined coastal engineers and homeowner representatives on April 17 in a tour of a beach nourishment project Fire Island homeowners.