This is
A. The financial district
B. The fashion district
C. Coney Island
D. The Upper Eas side
I mean . . . they are all the same, right?
Alight I confess.
Eveything outside NY, San Fran, and LA are the same place.
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I’ve been going to the Jersey shore my whole life, news about stabbings, gang fights, etc., is more recent, last two three years.
As far as I can tell the incidents involving stabbings, gang fights, etc., seem to be isolated to Seaside Hights.
I mean that is what Coney Island looks like 
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They always happened. Annually. Just not as popularized due recency bias and lack of social media dependency.
I can keep going
Yep! Exactly. That’s very true.
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LOL
One indelible picture in my mind
is the parachute tower at Coney Island
It is freakishly big.
Opened in 1939, no wonder it was shut down.
Nothing that fun is allowed anymore.
(It would be like allowing brass rings on carousels.)
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Every July 4th we watch 1776.
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That’s exactly was he was saying with his “two Jersey Shores” post.
But your desperation to be disagreeable is too strong, even when you later agree with the point.
At least the medical waste has stopped flowing down the Hudson River…
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yes, but he had a delineation point. there is none at the shore.
one shore. different cities.
Allan
IME, Covid changed the shore experience. So many people went to ride out the pandemic and never left. Everything is much more crowded and rowdy now.
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No doubt, COVID changed things noticeably,
but BY FAR the biggest changes in S Jersey shore (and probably north too) were wll underway before COVID and have to do with the towns changing from 1-week beach destinations to places where people have a summer home.
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1-week vacationers have very very different spending and entertainment patterns than summer-long residents, and where there used to be hundreds of cheap entertainment venues, (go karts, mini golf etc.) now there are hundreds of condos and 1-2 pricey restaurants.
The result if that in at least a few towns, (Margate, Seaside Heights and strangely enough . . . Avalon) -->HUGE<-- crowds of kids will hang out wherever they don’t have to spend money and cops don’t drive them away.
Here is a Margate convenience store at a graduation weekend a couple years back.
Yeah, that’s true…spiraling land values has led to a lot of amusments getting torn down.
Not sure I agree they are all summer long residencies, but that might just be my town vs. your town.
That pic is wild.
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What a few towns have discovered is that when trouble happens (two kids get in a shoving match) anywhere in town, a crowd gathers, like on the playground, and a few mintues later it’s over.
But on a boardwalk? Different story.
At night ther are thousands of people just walking the boards, and like a traffic jam on a highway, the crowd that gathers to watch a shoving match very quickly turns into 2,000 rowdy and excited kids.
The cops here don’t deal with such things very well
They’re the kind of power trippy types who make me wince and would make some folks here totally apaplectic.
On the eoncomic side:
Thos sprialing land values are a direct function of declining interest rates.
I wonder what the free market did to drop interest rates year after year after year like that?
Anecdotally, I’ve visited Wildwood the last three summers, with kids and family. I have found the boardwalk much cleaner, safer, and orderly than when I was there as a child and a teen. Like: it’s really noticeable to me.
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Nice!
There are, however a lot fewer rides. We used to be a major theme park destination.
Still not bad, but kind not what it was.
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I think storm damage was a big part of it, right?
It was so shocking to go there almost 40 years later and hear “Watch the train car” in the same recorded voice.
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