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The sighting was reported at around 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 8, a New York State Parks spokesperson said.
As a result, beachgoers are being kept out of the water near the Central Mall, as well as near the East Bathhouse and West Bathhouse.
“We continue to prohibit swimming as a safety measure,” the spokesperson said.
Tuesday’s sighting came one day after a 65-year-old woman was bitten in the leg by a shark at Rockaway Beach in Queens.
She was taken to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition and has since been upgraded to stable condition, abc7 reports.
Rockaway Beach remained closed on Tuesday as a safety precaution, the New York City Parks Department said on Twitter. Both FDNY and NYPD were monitoring for sharks from the air.
So far this year, there have been 55 confirmed shark attacks worldwide, according to the website TrackingSharks.com. Five of those were on Long Island.
A 47-year-old Brooklyn woman survived after a shark bit her upper leg off Fire Island on Tuesday, July 4.
She was taken to South Shore University Hospital, where she ended up being the second person treated for a shark bite that day after a 47-year-old man was bitten near the Village of Quogue.
Doctors later removed the shark’s tooth from his hand.
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