Fishers Island, NY

Fishers Island is an island within Southold in Suffolk County, New York. Fishers Island lies at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, 2 miles off the southeastern coast of Connecticut, across Fishers Island Sound. Fishers Island is accessible from New London by plane and regular ferry service. The island has closer links with Connecticut, 2 miles to its north, than with the rest of New York, 10 miles to the southwest. Tom Clavin of The New York Times wrote that "the connection remains merely political, not emotional" to New York State, and that "in appearance, accent, location, and sensibility, this is a decidedly New England community".

Beaches include South Beach, Isabella Beach, Chocomount Beach, and Dock Beach, located at West Harbor. Fishers Island Club features tennis courts, a beachfront, clubhouse, employee housing, and a golf course which President Dwight D. In 2014, the district spent $36,811 per pupil. A newcomer can read Fishers Island through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Fishers Island comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The island is a census-designated place.