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The hole appeared maybe in March. It was the size of—and as oddly shaped a trapezium as—a bad West Village studio.

The town’s dock becomes a short boardwalk that deposits arrivals deboarding the boat from the mainland at a cramped, poorly planned intersection; that is Cherry Grove, Fire Island’s entire tiny downtown.

So arrivals find that to their right is a restaurant, and then behind that a bar. Ahead of them is the walkway to a bar; and behind that the pizza parlor; and, a bit up, a store; and, nearer, a Prudential Douglas Elliman office. To their left is a tiny post office, another real estate office and a bar. In the middle of all this, essentially, is the hole.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/fire-island-time#comments Arts & Culture Style Fire Island Tue, 27 May 2008 07:20:57 -0400 Choire Sicha 69688 at http://www.observer.com Penn Station Madhouse: Big Storm's A-Comin'! http://www.observer.com/node/32520 With Labor Day Weekend just a few hours away, The Transom decided to go straight to the source: the Long Island Rail Road section of Penn Station. The trip got off to an inauspicious start, however, when a faux-pas was committed: hugging a young child on the subway.

Her sweatshirt read: 'Aww someone needs a hug.' A reminder of that didn't cut it with her father. "Get outta here," he said.  read more »

In Penn Station, it was nuts. The 3:21 for the Fire Island ferries was leaving soon, as was the 3:58 to Montauk. In the ruckus was Gabby, a 22-year-old assistant at a PR firm in Manhattan: "I'm spending my last weekend in East Hampton!" she said. She looked more 25 than 22. "I was out 'til 4 last night! I'm busted right now!" There was an awkward silence. Was she nervous about the weather warnings? Not at all. "If it's not the beach, it's the clubs!" ]]> http://www.observer.com/node/32520#comments Style Fire Island Jane McMonigle Montauk Penn Station Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:39:22 -0400 Observer Staff 32520 at http://www.observer.com Sunny and Share! Taming Housemates From Hell http://www.observer.com/node/49455 Your summer share is disintegrating into a firestorm of petty bickering and teeth-gnashing resentmen  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/49455#comments Media Bill Clinton Donna Karan Fire Island Lysol Disinfecting Products Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:00:00 -0400 Simon Doonan 49455 at http://www.observer.com Food Fight! Grocery Wars Spread to Fire Island http://www.observer.com/node/47719 After Gristede's threatened to sue and Fairway took to posting signs in its stores attempting to dis  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/47719#comments Real Estate Fire Island Howard Glickberg Joe Fedele Manhattan Sun, 22 Jun 2003 20:00:00 -0400 Alexandra Wolfe 47719 at http://www.observer.com My Love Affair With This City, 'The Big Karma'-From Empire State Building to Conked Mouse-Reignited by Summer I Didn't Leave One http://www.observer.com/node/46447 Think of this as a memoir of a love affair-of the beginning, anyway, of a long, strange, curious, so  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/46447#comments Crown Heights Dan Wolf Empire State Building Fire Island Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:00:00 -0400 Ron Rosenbaum 46447 at http://www.observer.com HBO'S Gay Series Stops Shooting After A Letter http://www.observer.com/node/46311 After just two weekends of filming, HBO has pulled the plug on a planned documentary about five gay  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/46311#comments Media Bill Flanagan Fire Island Home Box Office Inc. Sheila Nevins Sun, 04 Aug 2002 20:00:00 -0400 Rebecca Traister 46311 at http://www.observer.com