It takes about three hours to drive from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Hudson, N.Y. to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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6/24/15
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Rockville Centre resident Lori King, 39, completed an open-water swim from the California mainland to Catalina Island — a distance of 20.5 miles — beginning the night of Aug. 14 and finishing the following morning, eight hours and 51 minutes later.
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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9/3/14
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Swimming is prohibited in the Atlantic Ocean today, Aug. 28, at Jones Beach State Park and several other South Shore beaches because of rip currents caused by Hurricane Cristobal.
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8/28/14
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We’re in the middle of summer, and with so much playing in and around so much water, just how many of us have the requisite swimming skills?
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8/6/14
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The rip currents off South Shore beaches that were predicted last weekend, courtesy of Hurricane Arthur, for the most part didn’t show, but many others surely will this summer.
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7/9/14
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Late last month, the South Side High School girls swimming and diving team earned the Conference II Championship — the highest finish in the program’s history — when it defeated Wantagh.
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By Alex Costello
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11/20/13
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Now that school is over, the action will ramp up at backyard and public pools as well as Long Island’s beaches.
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6/20/13
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Call it a minor miracle. I was recently at the Town of Hempstead’s Newbridge Road Park pool in Bellmore, swimming with my kids.
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7/2/12
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Summer is all about cool swims on sun-drenched days. But without a measure of common sense, swimming — in a backyard pool, at the local public pool or in the ocean — can turn dangerous, even deadly.
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6/21/12
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When thinking of a country club, one generally assumes that a single membership covers all. Such is not the case with Lawrence Village Country Club, which is comprised of three separate facilities. The Golf Club, Tennis Club and the Village Marina are each run independently.
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Teri Ann Loeser
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3/10/10
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