Where’s better to enjoy a baseball-and-beach mini-vacation: Staten Island or Coney Island? Comparing two spontaneous, overlooked, and excellent weekend-getaway trips that you can do with a ...

Think New York is all concrete and chaos? Well, think again. Just an hour from Manhattan, escape the city by taking a day trip to one of these stunning Long Island beaches.

New York's beaches offer surf and sun without a long drive on the Long Island Expressway. But how safe and clean are they? Midland Beach and Wolfe's Pond Beach are both on Staten Island and operated ...