The people who refused to be flushed out or who have reoccupied the shore live an existence so marginal and peculiar that the filmmaker John Waters narrated a documentary about them.
He's a Jersey Guy who sang about being born to run, but wound up back on the shore, living 20 miles from Freehold, where, he once said in song, he grew up feeling out of place.
The SU ecotype (Smooth and Unbanded) is found at the lower shore living on mussels.
Had more people lived in robust housing instead of shanty towns by the shore, fewer lives would have been lost.
And North Korea had repeatedly threatened dire reprisals if military exercises in disputed waters near its shore involved live firing, as those in November did.
When Marjorie Vezer, 57, executive director of South Shore Association for Independent Living — the nonprofit agency that houses Ms. Gomelsky — opened her first group home in the late 1980s, she said, "we were looking for young people, in the 18 to 35 range".
A New York Police Department helicopter patrol, out on a routine run from its base at Floyd Bennett Field on Memorial Day discovered four men near the shore, tossing live creatures into two flat-bottom skiffs.
While on that visit I got a sense of the sweet, wholesome magic of the place that comes across so well in that book; what struck me when I came back to the Shore to live several years later was the darker undercurrent, the thick sticky mud of uncomfortable history that had a tendency to bubble up from under the fertile soil of the place.
LOCAL bands that make a living on the Jersey Shore do not live the glamorous lives of Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi.
Wise is refining a theory, for example, that the order reflects how far the animals lived from the shore, so those living farthest from the water show up last in the record.
