If you’ve spent a winter anywhere near the Atlantic Ocean shoreline, you know how hard Mother Nature treats it. Two major storms hit the Margate area back in 1944 and 1962, destroying the boardwalks and piers along the Jersey Shore. Hurricane Sandy in 2012 lead to the Margate Dunes Project a few years later. In […]
Margate Boardwalk Rebuild Efforts Gather Steam
To build or not to build. That’s the question on most Margate residents’ minds lately when it comes to the proposed boardwalk. Proponents of the Margate boardwalk rebuild would love to see better access to our beautiful beaches for those with physical limitations. Opponents don’t want taxpayers to shoulder the entire cost of a project […]
Margate Boardwalk Rally at Lucy Park
Boardwalks have been a large part of our history along New Jersey’s Atlantic coastline. The world-famous Atlantic City Boardwalk was the first and longest one constructed here in the US. And until the mid-1900s, that included one right here in Margate. Unfortunately, over the years, various storms created so much damage that it eventually disappeared […]