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Map of the Fire Island National Seashore. The Fire Island Light is located near the western end of the seashore near Robert Moses State Park. Lighthouse Beach is a beach at the extreme west end of the seashore, just east of Robert Moses State Park. Since 2013, a nudity ban has been enforced at this former clothing optional beach. [3]
Watch Hill contains a marina, a small general store, snack bar, tiki bar, Whalehouse Point Restaurant and Bar, visitor center, nature trail, and seasonally lifeguarded beaches. In September 2019, the building containing the restaurant, snack bar, and tiki bar was destroyed by a fire. The general store and welcome center were unaffected.
Smith Point Park, located on the barrier island of Fire Island, is a haven for sportsmen, surfers and beach lovers. An extremely popular facility, the park has white sands, rolling Atlantic surf and an adjoining camping facility that attract both Suffolk County residents and tourists each summer.
Ocean Beach was incorporated as a village in 1921. [4] It formed with the merger between the tract of land owned by John A. Wilbur and Stay-A-While Estates. It is the location of Fire Island's only elementary school, which first opened in 1918. [4] The community was once a favorite of celebrities including Fanny Brice, Carl Reiner, and Mel ...
Kismet is a hamlet in the Town of Islip, in Suffolk County, New York, United States.It is the westernmost beach community on Fire Island, immediately west of Saltaire and east of the Fire Island Lighthouse.
A woman and her daughter walk past the South Shore Community Center, one of the proposed locations for a new Miami Beach Fire Station No. 1, on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Miami Beach, Fla.
The mockumentary Beach Comber [55] was filmed on Fire Island in 2004. The 2006 ABC reality show One Ocean View was shot on Fire Island. Fire Island is featured prominently in the 2008 Ann Brashares novel The Last Summer (of You and Me), about two sisters and a friend who grow up together, vacationing on the island every summer.
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