Long Island · South Shore

Sayville

The ferry port to Cherry Grove and the Pines, a South Shore village with a tight walkable downtown.

Sayville is the ferry port for Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines, which gives it a seasonal-weekend surge layered on top of a year-round South Shore village base. The downtown is walkable and modest, a handful of blocks of restaurants and shops adjacent to the ferry terminal. Licensed cannabis retail here catches the Friday-afternoon pre-crossing wave of adults 21+ stocking up before the car-free barrier beach. The off-season rhythm is slower and more residential, which keeps the year-round demand flat. The Bayport-Blue Point neighborhood sits next door and shares the same South Shore pace.