Topic: Montauk Point

Travel Picks: Top 10 fishing destinations

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Kenney: Helen H chases the winter cod

This is the season for cod. And since an angler's mantra is "You gotta go where the fish are biting," Joe Huckemeyer is one captain who is taking...

Montauk Point Lighthouse

East of Fire Island, east of the Hamptons, and east of every other geographic point on Long Island is Montauk Point -- and the Montauk Point Lighthouse. There, more than 100 miles from New York City, is one of the first points of ...

Block Island Southeast Lighthouse

Fifteen miles beyond Montauk Point, the easternmost spot on Long Island, is Block Island, a 25-square-mile piece of windswept land to the east of...

New York Major Attractions

New York is the 27th largest state in the country, covering 54,475 square miles, and features an abundant number of outdoor and indoor attractions. The capital of New York is Albany, although the Big Apple--New York City--is its biggest and most-visited ...

Riders on the Storm

I had heard about white squalls but I never encountered one, and the last place I expected to run into a storm of this type was near New York's Montauk Point. The encounter off Montauk also taught me to pay more ...