Fire Island's exposure to the elements also makes it a difficult place to work.
Newsday reported Tuesday that Fire Island National Seashore authorities will start enforcing laws banning the decades-long practice.
They first took the clubs by storm with their gay club anthems such as Macho Man and Fire Island.
The foundation of the new World Trade Center flooded, as did Long Island locales like Fire Island and the Rockaways.
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As an agent for Coram, Rose consigned to Christie's the 44 paintings plus Sanford Robinson Gifford's "Fire Island Beach, " owned by Berry-Hill.
The ban also will be enforced at four other Fire Island beaches where nude sunbathing is known to take place, the newspaper said.
With contractors' activity ramping up on Fire Island in recent days, residents said they hoped the tourists would be able to return come summer.
That could push the cleanup closer to the Memorial Day-to-Labor Day tourist season, when the population of Fire Island swells from 300 to 75, 000.
The piping plover is protected in many Atlantic Coast states, but the issue on Fire Island is particularly acute in the aftermath of Sandy.
The most affordable way to stay on Fire Island is to rent a house, but there are also a few (generally more expensive) hotel options.
"We've been struggling to make it work because Fire Island has a history of that type of use and people have been coming there for years, " Koschmann said.
"The deadline has everyone's attention, " said Suzy Goldhirsch, president of the Fire Island Association, which represents businesses and homeowners on the 32-mile-long barrier island south of Long Island.
She said the funniest email request she ever got was to call in a prescription to the pharmacy and arrange for a taxi to transport the meds to the Fire Island ferry.
On Wednesday, Steve Bellone, the Suffolk County executive, blamed the breach Sandy cut in an eastern Fire Island preserve, the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dunes Wilderness, for making the bay more volatile.
Through the years, Brower had a profound impact on America's wildlands by helping to create national parks and seashores in Kings Canyon, the North Cascades, the Redwoods, Great Basin, Alaska, Cape Cod, Fire Island and Point Reyes.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a report that a long-stalled shoreline sand-replenishment project covering the coast from Fire Island to Montauk Point was eligible for full federal funding, though the project hasn't received final authorization.
One special visitor's planned arrival to Fire Island is creating a pressing deadline for the cleanup of tons of rotting wood, sheet rock, old refrigerators and other Superstorm Sandy debris from the popular vacation destination east of New York City.
"That unique lifestyle that everyone's fought to protect is now, to some extent, working against the ability to build in the quick and timely manner that you would see on the mainland of Long Island, " said Chris Soller, the superintendent of the Fire Island National Seashore, the agency that oversees the island.
After the Rhode Island fire, changes in fire codes focused on the need for fire suppression systems.
The incident called to mind a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island where pyrotechnics used by the heavy metal band Great White ignited a blaze that killed 100 people.
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Her Banfield and Ford: Courtside program coverage of the - Rhode Island Nightclub Fire -- earned a Telly Award in 2007.
They leave out Colin Ferguson, the black man who opened fire in a Long Island Rail Road train in 1993, killing 6 and wounding 19.
For the second year, the island's fire and rescue service will use Firebike13 to spearhead an education and publicity campaign.
Elsewhere in the Caribbean, a lightning strike sparked a fire Monday that destroyed the island home of Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson.
Admiral Edney also warned about the decision effectively to halt the use of the live-fire training range on the island of Vieques near Puerto Rico.
Department plans include shedding jobs, closing some police stations, reducing the prison population (finding custody alternatives) and reduce the scope of the island's fire and rescue services.
Last Thursday, a fire at a nightclub in Rhode Island claimed the lives of 97 people.
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