The
South Shore of
Long Island, in the
U.S. state of
New York, is the area along Long Island's
Atlantic Ocean shoreline. Though some consider the South Shore to include parts of
Queens, particularly the beach communities in the
Rockaways such as
Belle Harbor, the term is generally used to refer to the Long Island coastline in
Nassau and
Suffolk counties. It is often used as a generic name for the entire southern half of Long Island rather than just the area immediately adjacent to the coastline.