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Davis Park - Fire Island, New York
 Location:
Ocean front community at eastern end of Fire Island
National Seashore (FINS)
Description:
 Davis Park is located at Fire Island’s east end.
Because of its easterly locale, Davis Park exists in isolation from the
rest of the Fire Island communities, but it possesses its own relaxed
Fire Island beach culture.
Davis Park actually encompasses three
areas; LEJA Beach, the town beach/marina, Ocean Ridge,
and Davis Park, the community section. Davis Park is a true
boaters’ community with huge 200+ boat marina.
The three sections of the community are quite distinguishable
from one another. Davis Park proper has thicker growth and more
trees and shrubbery (a wall of pines has been planted along its
line with Leja Beach); Ocean Ridge, flatter, sandier, stretches
away along a central boardwalk all open to view. Leja beach is
the commercial district: the stores, Casino, and small boatel all abut
its solitary bay-to-ocean walk.
Davis Park maintains an even balance between a young single party
crowd, many of whom occupy Fire Island rentals and Fire Island shares,
and family-oriented visitors and homeowners who own Fire Island real
estate.
The Davis Park Ferry
offers service to Davis Park - Ocean Ridge from the Patchogue Fire
Island Ferry terminal (Sandspit Marina).
Map:
Source: www.casinocafefireisland.com
Source:
www.fireislandcc.org/commun.html
Davis Park Marina Town of Brookhaven: LINK
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Transportation
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Fire
Island - Sun, Sand, Surf – The Good Life at
Davis Park
- By Judy Hogan
Davis Park/Leja Beach. Home of the infamous Casino – a great
restaurant and one of the most populated drinking hot-spots on the
barrier beach, Fire Island. A place some call a second home.
A first impression of Davis Park may be less than thrilling, simply
because there isn’t much except a small general store, volleyball net,
a children’s playground and a long boardwalk leading from the ferry
dock to the bar, with the next step taking you down to the beach.
Standing high above the beach, on the Casino deck, the view to east and
west brings only homes. But the view of the south of the pounding
relentless Atlantic Ocean is possibly the most spectacular found
anywhere.
A Brookhaven Town beach, boasting a new bath house a police station and
over 200 dock slips Davis Park has the biggest, transient population of
any town marina. The Davis Park Ferry Company operated by the Sherman
family, estimates that nearly 10,000 sun and sea worshippers ride to
Leja Beach during the summer season. It has long been considered and
described as a mecca for the single, energetic slice of life.
But that is not the only type of living style found within the dunes of
Davis Park. Though the parting and reveling is the most flamboyant
signal to the senses, beyond the noise of the music, there are Davis
Park residents who enjoy their community for its peacefulness-the
natural state of being. Despite the popularity growth over the years,
Davis Park has not suffered from the building boom which left little
breathing space in neighboring communities.
It all began back in 1945 when Davis Park became
official with the town establishing the marina and a public park. The
land for both was donated by the Davis Brothers of Patchogue. A large
building was barged over from the South Shore and with some work was
soon operating as the bar, the Leja Beach Casino. Houses stated
sprouting on the western edge, in the early 1960’s and then spread
east. The latter formation of homes would garner their own identify in
time, calling itself Ocean Ridge.
Upon a first taste, Davis Park seems unregulated, hedonistic. But that
is not true. Town lifeguards watch over the crowds with a sharp eye.
Police patrols and visitors themselves often thwart the problems that
come with drinking. The population age is not limited to teenagers and
older single, children are heard laughing, screeching as they swim, dig
their sandcastles, play Frisbee.
Davis Park simply put, is down-to-earth. There is no jet-set scene, no
best-dressed list to follow. It welcomes all who enjoy soaking their
skin, swimming in the rough and cooling sea. Friendly Davis Park
affords its virtues to all. Hopefully, it will never change.
Area residents are flocking to Davis Park on Fire Island
Source:
www.casinocafefireisland.com
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