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LIGHTHOUSE SHORES v. ISLIP

41 N.Y.2d 7 (1976)

Lighthouse Shores, Inc., et al., Respondents, v. Town of Islip et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 2, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis G. Caldeira, Town Attorney (William J. Kent of counsel), Islip, for appellants.

Robert M. Calica, Mineola, for respondents.

Donald J. Cohn and John E. Runnells, New York City, for Fire Island Association, amicus curiae.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER and FUCHSBERG concur.

COOKE, J.

Fire Island is an elongated sandspit in Suffolk County. Lying between the Great South Bay and Atlantic Ocean, just off the south central shore of Long Island, its overall length is about 31½ miles and its width varies from 200 yards to half a mile. Marked by its almost uninterrupted stretch of sand beach backed up by low dunes, it is a natural barrier reef of very low elevation, one portion, the...

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