JOHNNY NYSETHER, of Seaside Heights, N.J., after a fire destroyed a section of the Boardwalk nearly a year after it was hit by Hurricane Sandy.
This is the domain of Bill Erwin, the bleary-eyed general manager of Casino Pier, a section of the Boardwalk that includes 34 rides and dozens of arcades.
It jumped over one trench the firefighters cut in an effort to stop it, and burned a section of the Boardwalk in neighboring Seaside Heights.
Environmental groups have halted, at least temporarily, a plan by Asbury Park to rebuild a section of the boardwalk using lumber from the Brazilian rain forest that has not been certified as meeting forestry industry practices.
The fire was finally stopped around 11pm Thursday when officials decided to dismantle a section of the boardwalk, even though that meant moving firefighters and letting some buildings continue to burn.
Long Branch's nadir came in 1987 when a fire destroyed a fishing and amusement pier and a long section of boardwalk.
An article in some editions on Tuesday about a vote on a plan to replace a section of wood planks on the Coney Island Boardwalk with plastic and concrete overstated, in some copies, the significance of the action taken by the Public Design Commission on Monday.
OUR route, which followed a section of the Long Trail, began wide and well worn, with stairs, stacked rock cairns, wooden boardwalks to protect small wetlands and an occasional blaze of white paint on stone.
But in the end, the New York City Public Design Commission voted to allow the city's parks department to install a section of plastic and concrete to replace aging wood planks on a small section of the Coney Island Boardwalk.
It then turns in a southeastern direction along the New York border for about 30 mile, passing over long sections of boardwalk bridges over marshy land, then entering Wawayanda State Park and then the Abram S. Hewitt State Forest just before entering New York near Greenwood Lake.
