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Brookhaven OKs LaFountaine rebuilding plan

An aerial photo shows firefighters in Fire Island

Photo credit: Kevin P. Coughlin | An aerial photo shows firefighters in Fire Island Pines spraying water from several lines Tuesday morning onto a smoldering fire that engulfed several buildings. Mutual-aid response from the main island was brought in shortly after the fire started on Monday night. (Nov. 15, 2011)

Owners of the LaFountaine Building, a popular commercial complex in Fire Island Pines that was destroyed in a November fire, can rebuild a similar structure on the site, Brookhaven's Board of Zoning Appeals has ruled.

The decision, which upset the head of one of the town's largest civic groups, is a key step in the rebuilding of Fire Island Pines. The building and the adjacent Pavilion, a...

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