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Ocean beaches and sprawling parks line Long Island's South Shore and Fire Island. Take a hike, get a tan, or explore Long Island maritime past.

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Fire Island 32 miles of beaches, communities and Long Island's tallest lighthouse.

When Hollywood comes calling it means cash for LI

Actress Naomi Watts was on Shelter Island Thursday filming her latest flick, "Funny Games," a remake of the 1997 movie about two psychotic young men holding a family captive in a lakeside cabin.

34 years, and that's not all, folks

While chain and competing independent record stores are struggling, Looney Tunes in West Babylon stays in tune.

Fire Island remains the ultimate offshore getaway

Each summer without fail, a flotilla of some 3 million singles, families, loners, groupers, straights, gays, celebrities and homebodies descends on Fire Island – the stunning 32-mile-long sandbar that is New York's Key West (minus the palm trees and Hemingway haunts.)

Fire Island ferries have crisscrossed the bay and the years

FOR MORE than a century, ferry boats have been transporting pleasure-seekers to the South Shore barrier beaches. Few places on earth have the lure of the longest of these islands, the 32-mile sandbar known as Fire Island. More than a half-million passengers are now ferried each summer to Fire Island's sun-drenched communities, where the absence of cars is part of the sweet-life appeal.

Colonial estate was home to signer of Declaration

He signed the document that launched our nation. But how many beachgoers who ply the parkway named for him know that was William Floyd's claim to fame -- or that the colonial estate where he was born is an intriguing mainland part of Fire Island National Seashore?

Ancient woodland on a barrier beach

Even migrating birds may do a double take when they spy the dense 40-acre woodland on windswept Fire Island.
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