Located about 70 miles east of Manhattan, Fire Island’s Pines and Cherry Grove districts have been popular summer destinations for New York’s LGBTQ community, along with out-of-state visitors, since the 1920s. With New York City once the nation’s epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, many of the resort region’s seasonal restaurants and nightlife venues opened weeks later than usual to limited capacity crowds this year, while most annual events were canceled.
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