Day in the Life of Long Island 2023

June 21, 2023 – Montauk Point – The first light on Long Island shines on the first day of Summer 2023 as the sun rises at 5:15am in this aerial view of Montauk Lighthouse, Wednesday morning June 21st. (Photo by Kevin P. Coughlin )

June 21, 2023 – Montauk Point – The first light on Long Island shines on the first day of Summer 2023 as the sun rises at 5:15am in this aerial view of Montauk Lighthouse, Wednesday morning June 21st.

June 21, 2023 – Montauk Point – The first light on Long Island shines on the first day of Summer 2023 as the sun rises at 5:15am in this aerial view of Montauk Lighthouse, Wednesday morning June 21st. (Photo by Kevin P. Coughlin )

Wednesday June 21, 2023 Wading River, N.Y.: Sunrise from Wading River Beach.

Wednesday June 21, 2023 Wading River, N.Y.: Sunrise from Wading River Beach.

Sunrise at Robert Moses State Park as sun rises at 5:29 p.m.with view of the Fire Island Lighthouse in Babylon on Wednesday, June. 21, 2023.

Phil Karlin, owner, Carl Nickerson, captain, and Victor Deleon, first mate, on the Brianna, a fishing vessel on Mattituck Inlet in Mattituck on Wednesday. 

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.

Commuters at the LIRR station early morning on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Mineola.

Commuters at the LIRR station early morning on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Mineola.

Commuters at the LIRR station early morning on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Mineola.

Erick Hernandez makes bagels at Bagel Boss early morning on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Hicksville.

Erick Hernandez makes bagels at Bagel Boss early morning on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Hicksville.

Fishing in Mattituck Inlet in Mattituck on Wednesday. Newsday photographers capture sights and sounds for Day in the Life LI on June 21, 2023.

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.

Tyler, of Ridge, walks Banks, a 1-year-old sheepadoodle, on Wednesday.

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.

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.

Horse trainer Edmund Pringle gives a morning bath to A Lister at Belmont Park in Elmont Wednesday.

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.

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.

Commuters board a westbound LIRR train from Island Park on Wednesday.

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.

Commuters waiting for the westbound train from Island Park Wednesday, June 21, 2023 A Day in the Life Wednesday, June 21, 2023

A westbound Long Island Rail Road train leaves Long Beach, crossing the Wreck Lead Channel, on Wednesday morning.

Traffic moves in both directions on the Southern State Parkway near Exit 22 during rush hour on Wednesday.

The Long Island Rail Road at the Long Beach station just before sunrise on Wednesday.

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.

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.

Third grader Fallon Reilly, 8, competes in the tug-of-war competition during field day at the Sag Harbor Elementary School on Wednesday.

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.

Workers install a new dock along the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, June 21, 2023.

People walk along Windmill Beach near the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor on Wednesday.

Students jump rope during field day at the Sag Harbor Elementary School in Sag Harbor on Wednesday.

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.

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.

Mechanic Brandon Joyce, of Mastic Beach, works on a car at Anchor Auto and Truck Repair on Neighborhood Road in Mastic Beach on Wednesday.

Isabella Ruiz, 6, of Bay Shore, plays on a slide at Belmont Lake State Park in West Babylon on Wednesday.

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.

Charmaine Scott, 62, of Huntington, plays a friendly but competitive game of pickleball at Sweet Hollow Park in Melville early Wednesday afternoon.

Bob Schwartzman, 72, of Syosset, plays a friendly but competitive game of pickleball at Sweet Hollow Park in Melville Wednesday afternoon.

Instructor Darryl Granum exercises with Angela Tidoni during a Zumba class at the Town of Hempstead Merrick Senior Center in Merrick on Wednesday.

Yvonne Drain, 59, takes part in a Zumba class at the Town of Hempstead Merrick Senior Center in Merrick on Wednesday.

A landscaper trims the hedges of a house along Old Montauk Highway in Montauk Wednesday.

Lifeguards watch the water on a windy day at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett on Wednesday.

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.

A man reads a book as he sits on the sand at Ditch Plains Beach in Montauk on Wednesday.

People walk along the shore at Ditch Plains Beach in Montauk on Wednesday.

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.

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.

Junior Isaac of Copiague doing push-ups at Belmont Lake State Park on Wednesday.

Jocelyn Torres and her husband Jose Sanchez welcomed their daughter Hanna at Good Samaritan University Hospital on Wednesday.

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.”