Fire Island

noun

a narrow sand spit off S Long Island, New York: summer resort and lighthouse station. ¼–½ mi. (0.4–0.8 km) wide; 30 miles (48 km) long.

You can surf-fish year-round at Fire Island, just a two-hour drive from New York City.

The first large home in Fire Island was constructed in Cherry Grove in 1795.

Last year, when I interviewed Miss Piggy, the experience was on par to talking to a cross-dressing headliner on Fire Island.

One hot July morning in 1971, at Fire Island Pines, N.Y., I was introduced to Joel Schumacher.

Unfortunately, Jeffrey was not there and all the gays were in Fire Island for the weekend.

When the booms were full, they took them to Fire Island, emptied the logs out into the big pocket, and came back for more.

Daylight found them lying to, below long, swampy Fire Island, which lay well over toward the eastern shore.

The tired crew went ashore just above Fire Island, where the camp was established.

Suddenly the officer on the bridge discerned the dim Fire Island Light, bearing north by west, twenty miles distant.

No; I had heard that the steamer had not yet been sighted off Fire Island, so considered the effort unnecessary.

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