Photos: Day in the Life of Long Island 2023
Our photographers capture scenes across Long Island on the first day of summer.
Credit: All Island Aerial.com/Kevin P. Coughlin
The first light on Long Island shines on the first day of summer 2023 as the sun rises at 5:15 a.m. in this aerial view of Montauk Lighthouse in Montauk Point on Wednesday.
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Sunrise at Montauk Lighthouse in Montauk Point Wednesday morning.
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The sun rises on summer at Montauk Lighthouse in Montauk Point Wednesday morning.
Credit: Tom Lambui
Sunrise from Wading River Beach in Wading River on Wednesday.
Credit: James Carbone
Sunrise at Robert Moses State Park, with view of the Fire Island Lighthouse, in Babylon on Wednesday.
Credit: Randee Daddona
Phil Karlin, owner, Carl Nickerson, captain, and Victor Deleon, first mate, on the Brianna, a fishing vessel on Mattituck Inlet in Mattituck on Wednesday.
Credit: James Carbone
People from several Yoga studios on Long Island, including Soul Yoga of Huntington, and Funky Om, participate in Kirtan, during sunrise at Robert Moses State Park at 5:29 a.m. on Wednesday, June. 21, 2023.
Credit: Howard Schnapp
Commuters at the LIRR station early morning on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Mineola.
Credit: Howard Schnapp
Commuters at the LIRR station early morning on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Mineola.
Credit: Howard Schnapp
Commuters at the LIRR station early morning on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Mineola.
Credit: Howard Schnapp
Erick Hernandez makes bagels at Bagel Boss early morning on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Hicksville.
Credit: Howard Schnapp
Erick Hernandez makes bagels at Bagel Boss early morning on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Hicksville.
Credit: Randee Daddona
Fishing in Mattituck Inlet in Mattituck on Wednesday. Newsday photographers capture sights and sounds for Day in the Life LI on June 21, 2023.
Credit: Randee Daddona
Joel and his mom Juanita wait up early to go fishing in Mattituck on Wednesday. Newsday photographers capture sights and sounds for Day in the Life LI on June 21, 2023.
Credit: Tom Lambui
Tyler, of Ridge, walks Banks, a 1-year-old sheepadoodle, on Wednesday.
Credit: Randee Daddona
Ira Haspel, farmer, owner of KK's The Farm in Southold harvesting snap peas on Wednesday. Newsday photographers capture sights and sounds for Day in the Life LI on June 21, 2023.
Credit: Randee Daddona
Ira Haspel, farmer, owner of KK's The Farm in Southold harvesting snap peas on Wednesday. Newsday photographers capture sights and sounds for Day in the Life LI on June 21, 2023.
Credit: Debbie Egan-Chin
Horse trainer Edmund Pringle gives a morning bath to A Lister at Belmont Park in Elmont Wednesday.
Credit: David Handschuh
Family Court Judges Mary Porter, left and Rosamaria Abbate chat before taking the bench at the Cohalan Court Complex in Central Islip, NY on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.
Credit: David Handschuh
Family Court Judge Mary Porter puts on her robe before taking the bench at the Cohalan Court Complex in Central Islip, NY on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.
Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
Commuters board a westbound LIRR train from Island Park on Wednesday.
Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
Long Beach resident Kevin Watts reads a book, something he says he does every morning, while sitting along West Park Avenue in Long Beach on Wednesday.
Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
Commuters waiting for the westbound train from Island Park Wednesday, June 21, 2023 A Day in the Life Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
A westbound Long Island Rail Road train leaves Long Beach, crossing the Wreck Lead Channel, on Wednesday morning.
Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
Traffic moves in both directions on the Southern State Parkway near Exit 22 during rush hour on Wednesday.
Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
The Long Island Rail Road at the Long Beach station just before sunrise on Wednesday.
Credit: David Handschuh
Judge Howard Sturim, left, reaches over Barney, his seven-year-old Irish doodle to hand paperwork to Matt Connolly, right, a court attorney on June 21, 2023, in Mineola, NY. Barney’s amazing nose not only assists the judge but also helped to alert a Nassau attorney appearing in Judge Sturim’s court that his blood sugar was dangerously low, averting a medical emergency.
Credit: David Handschuh
Judge Howard Sturim pets Barney, his seven-year-old diabetic alert dog, who sits under the bench on June 21, 2023, in Mineola, NY. Barney’s amazing nose not only assists the judge but also helped to alert a Nassau attorney appearing in Judge Sturim’s court that his blood sugar was dangerously low, averting a medical emergency.
Credit: Gordon M. Grant
Third grader Fallon Reilly, 8, competes in the tug-of-war competition during field day at the Sag Harbor Elementary School on Wednesday.
Credit: Gordon M. Grant
Emelia Guichay, 5, from Manorville, plays in the sand at Windmill Beach, as seen through the window of the Sag Harbor Windmill, near the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, June 21, 2023.
Credit: Gordon M. Grant
Workers install a new dock along the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, June 21, 2023.
Credit: Gordon M. Grant
People walk along Windmill Beach near the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor on Wednesday.
Credit: Gordon M. Grant
Students jump rope during field day at the Sag Harbor Elementary School in Sag Harbor on Wednesday.
Credit: Debbie Egan-Chin
Visitors to the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead watch as dive master Jim McCue and divers Mariana Harris and Michele Rowlette enter the shark habitat in a protective cage on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.
Credit: Debbie Egan-Chin
Lukas Gebel, 5, of East Patchogue, left, and his brother, Sebastian, watch the sharks in the Shark Habitat at the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead, on Wednesday. Despite their fearsome appearance, the sharks in this habitat are not aggressive toward humans unless they are provoked.
Credit: Tom Lambui
Mechanic Brandon Joyce, of Mastic Beach, works on a car at Anchor Auto and Truck Repair on Neighborhood Road in Mastic Beach on Wednesday.
Credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa Loarca
Isabella Ruiz, 6, of Bay Shore, plays on a slide at Belmont Lake State Park in West Babylon on Wednesday.
Credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa Loarca
Day in the life of Long Island at Belmont State Park, Wednesday June 21, 2023. 6 year-old Isabella Ruiz of Bay Shore with her grandpa Won Han.
Credit: Danielle Silverman
Charmaine Scott, 62, of Huntington, plays a friendly but competitive game of pickleball at Sweet Hollow Park in Melville early Wednesday afternoon.
Credit: Danielle Silverman
Bob Schwartzman, 72, of Syosset, plays a friendly but competitive game of pickleball at Sweet Hollow Park in Melville Wednesday afternoon.
Credit: Linda Rosier
Instructor Darryl Granum exercises with Angela Tidoni during a Zumba class at the Town of Hempstead Merrick Senior Center in Merrick on Wednesday.
Credit: Linda Rosier
Yvonne Drain, 59, takes part in a Zumba class at the Town of Hempstead Merrick Senior Center in Merrick on Wednesday.
Credit: Gordon M. Grant
A landscaper trims the hedges of a house along Old Montauk Highway in Montauk Wednesday.
Credit: Gordon M. Grant
Lifeguards watch the water on a windy day at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett on Wednesday.
Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost
Shawn Haynes, owner of Strong Island Produce in Wyandanch, unloads watermelons from a Georgia farm from the back of his truck at the corner of Straight Path and Little East Neck Road in Wyandanch on Wednesday.
Credit: Gordon M. Grant
A man reads a book as he sits on the sand at Ditch Plains Beach in Montauk on Wednesday.
Credit: Gordon M. Grant
People walk along the shore at Ditch Plains Beach in Montauk on Wednesday.
Credit: Danielle Silverman
Margaret Goldberg, of Rockville Centre, a student and artist with The Watercolor Artists of Oyster Bay, paints during an outdoor class at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay on Wednesday afternoon.
Credit: Danielle Silverman
Meghan Becker, 20, of Lancaster, Pa., a horticulture intern currently living at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay, helps weed the perennial border along the park's rose arbor on Wednesday afternoon.
Credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa Loarca
Junior Isaac of Copiague doing push-ups at Belmont Lake State Park on Wednesday.
Credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa Loarca
Jocelyn Torres and her husband Jose Sanchez welcomed their daughter Hanna at Good Samaritan University Hospital on Wednesday.
Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost
Monica Richards, of Bay Shore, picks sugar snap peas off the vine for purchase after harvesting the remnants of a strawberry crop at Thera Farms in Brentwood on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. "I enjoy nature," says Richards, "I love watching baby seedlings until they become perfection."
Credit: Linda Rosier
Lifeguard Matthew McCoy looks out over a relatively empty pool at the Veterans Memorial Park Pool in East Meadow on the first day of summer Wednesday.
Credit: Linda Rosier
Lieutenant lifeguard Michael Springer takes a break to do a workout at the Veterans Memorial Park Pool in East Meadow Wednesday.
Credit: Debbie Egan-Chin
Terri Carr Muran, board member of Humane Long Island, feeds a young peacock named Chickpea a banana in the backyard of her animal foster home Wednesday in Brookville. Chickpea, who was rescued as a baby after being abandoned in Brooklyn, is one of several peafowl up for adoption through Humane Long Island.
Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost
Angel Hernandez of Bay Shore fishes off the jetty at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park on Wednesday.
Credit: Debbie Egan-Chin
Juliana Di Leonardo, vice president of Humane Long Island, and John Di Leonardo, anthrozoologist and executive director of Humane Long Island, get ready to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary by attending Suffolk County Supreme Court where illegal Hauppauge business Sloth Encounters is facing contempt charges tomorrow, June 21, 2023 in Brookville, NY. The couple is lobbying for a ban on traveling wild animal acts in Suffolk County while Sloth Encounters faces numerous state and local charges related to its operation.
Credit: Debbie Egan-Chin
Dr. Ellen Leonardt, medical director at Animal General of East Norwich, right, and Arielle Tejada, vet tech, left, examine four ducklings who were surrendered to Humane Long Island, on Wednesday in East Norwich.
Credit: Gordon M. Grant
(l-r) Pryce Carey, 9, from Sagaponack, and Liam Sharp, 9, from Sag Harbor, look at a collection of baseball cards during a Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League game between the Sag Harbor Whalers and the South Shore Clippers at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor, June 21, 2023.
Credit: Gordon M. Grant
Players from the Sag Harbor Whalers watch from the dugout during a Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League game against the South Shore Clippers at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor, June 21, 2023.
Credit: Danielle Silverman
Erika Lobos, 18, left, and Emely Galan, 18, center, arrive and greet their teachers at Floral Park Memorial High Schools’ Senior Prom Wednesday evening at the Crescent Beach Club in Bayville, June 21, 2023.
Credit: Danielle Silverman
Seniors pose for pictures on the beach during cocktail hour at the Floral Park Memorial High school senior prom,Wednesday evening at the Crescent Beach Club in Bayville.
Credit: Danielle Silverman
A quiet sunset at Centre Island Beach in Bayville, June 21, 2023.
Credit: Danielle Silverman
Sisters Joanna Zelaya, 8, left, and Melanie Godoy, 3, of Bayville, play on the sand with their family as the sun begins to set at Centre Island Beach in Bayville, June 21, 2023.
Credit: Danielle Silverman
People walk on the beach at sunset at Centre Island Beach in Bayville, June 21, 2023.
Credit: Linda Rosier
Sunset overlooking the bay outside the Clam Bar in Point Lookout on the first day of summer, June 23, 2023.
Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost
Logan Friedman plays the bass during a jam session with the Brandon Rivas Quartet at the Jazz Loft in Stony Brook, Wednesday, June 21, 2023.
Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost
Alex Smith plays the tenor saxophone during a jam session with the Brandon Rivas Quartet at the Jazz Loft in Stony Brook on Wednesday.
Credit: Morgan Campbell
Sundown at Jones Beach in Wantagh on Wednesday.
Credit: Morgan Campbell
The sun sets on the water tower at Jones Beach in Wantagh on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.
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