Jersey Shore Trying to Keep Beaches for Themselves

2008_12_beach.jpgIt appears that it will be more difficult for New Yorkers to use the Jersey Shore as an easy, affordable getaway as courts are restricting how much of the beach is available to the public. State legislators had been attempting to free up more beaches along the Shore, but appeals courts lately have been overturning them, leading to what the State Island Advance says "may add up to a confusing summer next year, with people unsure of which stretches of sand they're legally allowed to be on, and when they're allowed to be there. "People come down to the shore, decide to party, get tipsy, go for a swim at 2 in the morning, and if they drown, the first thing their family will do is sue the town because we allowed it," said Avalon Mayor Martin Pagliughi about laws forcing him to keep his beaches open all night. Let's just hope that the mayor of Belmar doesn't get involved in this again.

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New Yorkers are not the ones they should be worried about on the Jersey Shore...

If I want to share the beaches with New Jersey muscle heads & orange tanned Guidos then maybe i'll make my way down there. Other than that I'd rather head to Coney Island and walk on glass & hypodermic needles in the sand.

"If I want to share the beaches with New Jersey muscle heads & orange tanned Guidos then maybe i'll make my way down there."

Ummm, Staten Islanders swarm the NJ shore in droves every summer. Don't be so sure they are "New Jersey muscle heads". They are not very appreciated by the people of NJ either.
Guidos are more of a NY phenomenon than it is a NJ one. But thanks for letting us know you get your cultural awareness from MTV.
Provincial asshole.

^ Right, no guidos in New Jersey. I guess all those guys in t-shirts and gold necklaces at Webster Hall go right back to Murray Hill after striking out with the self-absorbed euro chicks.

"^ Right, no guidos in New Jersey. I guess all those guys in t-shirts and gold necklaces at Webster Hall go right back to Murray Hill after striking out with the self-absorbed euro chicks."

Your comment goes right to the heart of my point. There are only 8 1/2 million people in all of New Jersey, half of those people are Philly metro types. Yet every Guido in Webster Hall is from NJ?
Yea, right. NYC would like to think so, but that is simply not the case.
I never said there were NO Guidos in NJ. I was pointing out that NY dominates the phenomenon (per capita & raw numbers).
So again, provincial asshole!

Here is an excerpt from a blog by a bouncer in the meat packing district.

http://standingonthebox.blogspot.com/2007/02/your-guido-field-guide.html


"Click on that link I posted at the tail end of yesterday's blog entry, and follow it around the internet for a while. See where it leads. Toss a few blades of grass in the air, and check the direction of the wind. Hear what the people have to say.

After 'cruising the forums' today and gauging reaction near and far, one fact, and one fact alone, has become readily apparent: America hates Guidos. With a passion. The hair, the eyebrows, the clothes, the grease, the steroids -- the entire package has been evaluated, and found wanting. And you know what? I don't fucking blame you in the least. If nothing else, this blog -- and, to some extent, my forthcoming book -- has endeavored, for over nineteen months, to vigorously repudiate this entire 'culture.' So I know.

The one thing I'd like to make clear, however, is that this is, and has always been, a New York blog. The Guido phenomenon, much as it gives me the douche chills to sit here and claim it as my own, is centered in New York. Not New Jersey. There seems, however, to be a widespread tendency for people in other parts of the United States to refer to these characters as "Jersey Guidos," and I'm not quite sure how this misconception got started. Granted, there is, admittedly, a large segment of the Guido populace residing in the Garden State, but New Jersey isn't where the whole thing began, and New Jersey can hardly claim to be its cultural epicenter.

The people of whom I write hail primarily from the five boroughs of New York City, Long Island, and Westchester counties. The northern half of New Jersey, although from all reports saturated with Guidos, isn't sufficiently populated to register anything more than a slight blip on our radar at the front door of a Guido-infested city nightclub. One-in-ten, tops. And that's on one of their good nights.

When the "eyebrow parade" starts rolling down the sidewalk, I'm checking mostly New York licenses -- and, of course, the ubiquitous New York State Identification card indicative of a DWI arrest. Staten Island. Howard Beach, Queens. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Yonkers. Massapequa. Very few from Jersey. We do get some, to be sure, but I wanted to make it clear -- for what little it's worth -- that the term "Jersey Guido" is something that's been coined by people who quite obviously aren't from this area.

Trust me. I'm from here. I see them every single goddamned motherfucking day. When one of these jerkoffs comes strutting down the block, I'm not thinking he's from "Jersey." This is simple, folks. Think Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever. This, like every other tackification of Americana, is purely a New York thing."

Close the boarder then. It would sure make things a whole lot less obnoxious here in the city. The beaches there all smell like TAG body spray anyway.

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