While this may or may not be true, the Lone Hill Lifesaving station was located in this proximity of Fire Island during the 19 th Century. It is fabled that Fire Island Pines was named due to a shipwreck in which a cargo of evergreen trees that were being transported for the Christmas season came to shore and took root, giving the area its lush green appearance. Indeed the Pines is an affluent gay-friendly community where same-sex as well as heterosexual lifestyles co-exist comfortably. The Pines turnout is known to be a bit more subdued than its neighboring Cherry Grove. Home of the “tea dance,” Fire Island Pines is a zigzag of boardwalks that lead to the island’s most ritzy real estate.
