Long beach is a surf town with many aspiring locals and visitors from across the globe. Only 55 minutes via low cost train from NYC, it gets packed in the summer. Winter swells have less population and lack of lifeguards allowing you to access any peak.

In Summer lifeguards are on duty 9am - 6pm, than you can hit any peak. Before that its buses of locals, groms, and kooks all fighting over 3 legal peaks in long beach ny.

It gets good if you know where to go, and have traveled elsewhere for the experience of surfing heavy big cold dark waves.

Waves typically approach Long Island from the Southeast and hit Long Beach's sand bars at an oblique angle. It means that among the typical beach break closeouts, sets will often come in and create lefts. An ongoing beach reclamation project which is fortifying the groins/jetties, has resulted in more predictable sand bars.