Thousands of people have once again descended upon a stretch of sand on a barrier island in the Great South Bay, an approximately 700-home community with an enormously outsized cultural influence: The ...

A wave of relief washed over Fire Island this summer thanks to new funding intended to prevent the beloved shoreline from becoming New York’s own Atlantis. The money — $1.7 billion secured in this ...

The Fire Island beaches look as beautiful as postcards with plentiful dunes and wide expanses, in part due to massive amounts of sand used to replenish them. And summer winds have been shifting sand ...