The South Shore of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York, is the area along Long Island's Atlantic Ocean shoreline. Description 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. The South Shore tends to be diverse in culture and income as it varies from one hamlet or village to another. In Suffolk County, there still remain pockets of old money from the Gilded Age, including the country seats of families from the Vanderbilts, Havemeyers, and Bournes to the Gardiners, Bayard-Cutting as well as many others. The South Shore is also home to the seaside resort of The Hamptons on its east end, located on the South Fork of Long Island. On its west end, bordering Queens, the Five Towns retains pockets of affluence similar in character to the Gold Coast of the North Shore and The Hamptons. The South Shore is very liminal. South Shore communities Amityville Atlantic Beach Babylon Baldwin Baldwin Harbor Bay Shore Bayport Bellmore Bellport Bethpage Blue Point Bohemia Brentwood Brightwaters Cedarhurst Center Moriches Central Islip Copiague Copiague Harbor Deer Park East Islip East Moriches East Patchogue East Rockaway East Quogue Eastport Elmont Farmingdale Five Towns Freeport Gilgo Beach Great River Hewlett Holbrook Inwood Island Park Islip Islip Terrace Kismet Lawrence Levittown Lido Beach Lindenhurst Long Beach Lynbrook Malverne Massapequa Massapequa Park Mastic Mastic Beach Medford Merrick Moriches North Amityville North Babylon North Bellmore North Bellport North Lindenhurst North Massapequa North Merrick North Valley Stream Oak Beach Oakdale Oceanside Patchogue Point Lookout Rockville Centre Ronkonkoma Roosevelt Sayville Seaford Shirley Valley Stream Wantagh West Babylon West Gilgo Beach West Islip West Sayville Woodmere Wyandanch Beaches In approximate west to east order: Atlantic Beach Long Beach Lido Beach Jones Beach State Park Tobay Beach Gilgo State Park Robert Moses State Park Fire Island Smith Point County Park West Hampton Dunes Quogue Southampton East Hampton Hither Hills State Park Montauk Point State Park References Geography of Long Island Geography of Nassau County, New York Geography of Suffolk County, New York