She was staying in Ocean Bay Park, a small beach town on Fire Island, 60 miles from New York City. She’d heard whispers about a place down the beach called Cherry Grove. A few miles away ...

When you travel by sea, your vacation begins once you set foot on a Long Island ferry. These local trip ideas are perfect for ...

I never knew you could drive to Fire Island — not to Cherry Grove or The Pines ... misspelling of the English number five or the Dutch word for four — vier — referring to the number of ...

By Julianne McShane In the decades before the Stonewall uprising in 1969, an L.G.B.T.Q. community took shape among New Yorkers on a remote Fire Island hamlet known as Cherry Grove. There ...