Forged in fire. For decades, Fire Island Pines, the historic gay community located on the edge of the barrier island, has ...

By Evan Moffitt THERE’S A DISTINCT palette to Fire Island Pines, the gay beach getaway a two-hour train ride from New York City. Boxy houses and boardwalks made of untreated cedar have gone gray ...

Conrad Williams Jr. The Long Beach boardwalk is a traditional spot to ... At the end of the walkway, Fire Island Lighthouse can be seen across shimmering Great South Bay. Bicyclists, runners ...

Get a good view of the dunes from the boardwalk. Take Long Island’s Wantagh State Parkway south to Jones Beach. Head east on Ocean Parkway to the Robert Moses Causeway and head south to Fire Island.

Fire Island Boulevard, an unpaved sandy strip that runs the length of the Pines and divides it and is the closest thing we have to a proper road, since everything else is boardwalks, was flooded ...

Connected by wooden boardwalks and accessible only by water, idyllic Fire Island offers a place of unique liberation, and one not just free of cars. “I’ve never felt closer to my friends than ...