The South Shore of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York, is the area along Long Island's Atlantic Ocean shoreline.
Description Though some consider the South Shore to include parts of Queens, particularly the beach communities in the Rockaways such as Belle Harbor, the term is generally used to refer to the Long Island coastline in Nassau and Suffolk counties. It is often used as a generic name for the entire southern half of Long Island rather than just the area immediately adjacent to the coastline.
The South Shore includes densely developed mainland communities as well as Atlantic barrier-island beaches, including Jones Beach and Fire Island. Several former country estates survive along the Suffolk County South Shore, including William K. Vanderbilt's Idle Hour estate in Oakdale and William Bayard Cutting's Westbrook estate along the Connetquot River.
The South Shore is also home to the seaside resort of The Hamptons on its east end, located on the South Fork of Long Island. At the western end of the Nassau County South Shore, adjoining Queens, is the Five Towns, an informal grouping centered on Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Inwood.
South Shore communities
Amityville Atlantic Beach Babylon Baldwin Baldwin Harbor Bay Shore Bayport Bellmore Bellport Bethpage Blue Point Bohemia Brentwood Brightwaters Cedarhurst Center Moriches Central Islip Copiague Copiague Harbor Deer Park East Islip East Moriches East Patchogue East Rockaway East Quogue Eastport Elmont Farmingdale Five Towns Freeport Gilgo Beach Great River Hewlett Holbrook Inwood Island Park Islip Islip Terrace Kismet Lawrence Levittown Lido Beach Lindenhurst Long Beach Lynbrook Malverne Massapequa Massapequa Park Mastic Mastic Beach Medford Merrick Moriches North Amityville North Babylon North Bellmore North Bellport North Lindenhurst North Massapequa North Merrick North Valley Stream Oak Beach Oakdale Oceanside Patchogue Point Lookout Rockville Centre Ronkonkoma Roosevelt Sayville Seaford Shirley Valley Stream Wantagh West Babylon West Gilgo Beach West Islip West Sayville Woodmere Wyandanch
Beaches In approximate west to east order:
Atlantic Beach Long Beach Lido Beach Jones Beach State Park Tobay Beach Gilgo State Park Robert Moses State Park Fire Island Smith Point County Park West Hampton Dunes Quogue Southampton East Hampton Hither Hills State Park Montauk Point State Park
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