Two Hudson County cities face Manhattan from the New Jersey bank. Hoboken is the tight grid. Jersey City is the larger, split one. Together they

Atlantic City is a Shore city built on a boardwalk, a free beach, and a skyline of casino hotels that do not match each other.
The Jersey Shore is not one place. It is a hundred-and-thirty-mile string of towns that share an ocean and almost nothing else. Asbury Park is

Asbury Park is a small Shore city with a boardwalk, a downtown that is not on the sand, and a music reputation that outgrew the