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 ...

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.

Fire Island is home to 17 different communities, but only two incorporated villages — Ocean Beach and Saltaire. And each has its own code enforcement and village court.

Heading to Fire Island this summer? One PS editor created a Fire Island, New York packing list, with essential items for a ...

Clashes between these two titans were inevitable. Ironically, one of the most fateful came over a sliver of land in the Atlantic Ocean—Fire Island, a barrier beach off of Long Island. Fire Island is ...