To this end, Ocean Beach visitors of both sexes can find some quality threads at Fire Island Outfitters (637 Ocean Breeze Walk, 631-583-0146, fireislandapparel.com), especially if you’re in the ...

Mallott, who is also the mayor of Ocean Beach, found himself in a position unlike any other after Sandy. “I feel like King Canute, keeping the waves back,” Mallott said in 2021.

Fire Island Water Taxi . Visitors grab a Fire Island Water Taxi in Ocean Beach. Credit: Newsday/Lynn Petry There are two ways to use the water taxi: laterally, going from town-to-town between 17 ...

"Here in Ocean Beach, or in all of Fire Island, if you don’t make it by Labor Day, you don’t make it," he said. "It’s almost like you go out of business every year.

The towns of Fire Island. Map via National Park Service. The 32-mile-long, quarter-mile-wide strip of sand — the longest of four barrier islands that protect the South Shore of Long Island from the ...

Fire Island Ferries resumed service to the Village of Ocean Beach on Sunday now that the two entities broke through an impasse that led to an unprecedented service suspension.

How Fire Island Was Saved — For Now After a winter of brutal storms, the Feds stepped in with a pile of very expensive sand. But it’s just a Band-Aid.

As Fire Island residents fumed, Palm Beach Mayor Gail Coniglio and Army Corps grandees took part in a groundbreaking ceremony last week to ring in the project that will cost more than $19 million.

OCEAN BEACH, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- If you're planning on late-night partying on Fire Island, be prepared to stay the night. The 1 a.m. ferry to Ocean Beach and Ocean Bay Park has been cancelled ...

It happened near Ocean Beach on Fire Island. First-year lifeguard John Mullins is donning a few new battle scars. The 17-year-old was in the middle of lifeguard training Thursday morning when he ...