Famous Summer Residents
After the Manhattan theater community began staying on Fire Island during the 1920s, the island had numerous summer celebrity residents.
- Gary Beach, Tony award-winning actor
- Tina Fey, creator of 30 Rock, stays during the summer at Fair Harbor and Ocean Beach.
- Christopher Noth, known for his acting in Law and Order, stays in Ocean Beach in the summer.
- Henry Fonda, actor, built a summer home in the Pines.
- Barbara Corcoran, investor, TV personality
- Nick Wooster, fashion style icon
- John Lennon, of The Beatles
- Mel Brooks
- Lea Thompson, Back to the Future star, and her director husband Howard Deutch
Read more about this topic: Fire Island
Famous quotes containing the words famous, summer and/or residents:
“John Gilpin was a citizen
Of credit and renown,
A train-band captain eke was he
Of famous London town.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“Over the threshold
Nothing like death stepped, nothing like death paused,
Nothing like death has such hair, arms so raised.
Why are your feet bare? Was not death to come?
Why is he not here? What summer have you broken from?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)