Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Long Beach, NY

Long Beach is an oceanfront city in Nassau County that occupies the central section of the Long Beach Barrier Island, the westernmost of the outer barrier islands off Long Island's South Shore.

Long Beach is one of only two cities on all of Long Island (the other is Glen Cove), and although it sits geographically within the Town of Hempstead, it is politically independent and self-governing.

The community was founded in 1880, when the first Long Beach Hotel was built, and the railroad arrived in 1882, promoting Long Beach as a resort for vacationers.

Developer William H. Reynolds, credited as the city's founder, famously marched a herd of elephants through town as a publicity stunt connected with building the boardwalk.

Long Beach was incorporated as a village in 1913 and became a city in 1922.

The city is nicknamed "The City by the Sea," a translation of its Latin motto, Civitas ad Mare.

Long Beach had 35,029 residents at the 2020 census, and the city counts about 18,000 households packed into roughly two square miles of land.

The Long Beach Boardwalk stretches about 2.2 miles along the oceanfront and was originally built in 1914.

The adjacent public beach is a 3.5-mile stretch of white sand along the Atlantic Ocean, with Reynolds Channel on the city's north side.

Superstorm Sandy devastated Long Beach in October 2012, causing damage estimated at $250 million, and the boardwalk was rebuilt for about $42 million and reopened by October 2013.