Does the dream of the waterside home outweigh the dilemmas? Welcome to Beach Week, our annual celebration of the best place on Earth. Perhaps you’ve fantasized about owning a beach house. Maybe you’d ...

When Julie Frist was 12 or 13, her father would take her for driving lessons on a narrow spit of land, not much wider than a football field in places, that separated the flat calm of Long Island’s ...

Tucked among exclusive real estate, a family’s 18-foot-wide strip of land is not just an oceanside parking spot. It’s their legacy. Moriches Bay, left, is on one side of Dune Road in Westhampton Beach ...