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Fire Island

American  

noun

  1. 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.


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Fashion designer Michael Kors has listed a modern beach compound on New York’s Fire Island for $6.25 million.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

However, when she arrived on Fire Island, she realized this was not a work retreat, but a double date.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

Tina Fey spent the summers of 2002 and 2003 hunched over an old desk in the mildewy back room of a Fire Island rental home.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2024

There's also "Fire Island," "Single All The Way" and "Bros," which all earned much praise from viewers.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2023

Patti on board, had been sighted off Fire Island.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.

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