Jersey Shore becoming more accessible, disability groups say
Visiting the Jersey Shore? Here's what you need to know about beach wheelchairs and accessibility.
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Visiting the Jersey Shore? Here's what you need to know about beach wheelchairs and accessibility.
Wheelchair users had few options as beach wheelchairs were in short supply until recently, advocates said.
NorthJersey.com The Jersey Shore was synonymous with summer for Verona’s Scott Chesney, whose family vacationed in Lavallette, New Jersey, every year until a stroke took his legs out from under him at the age of 15. Now 50, Chesney has stayed away for decades. The thin wheels of his wheelchair were too easily bogged down in the sand and made his idea of heaven on earth unreachable. For decades, wheelchair users had few options as beach wheelchairs with wheels large enough to navigate sand were in short supply, advocates and families said. But awareness, and mobility options, are ...
Wealthy Jersey Shore town tries to sell beachfront lot. Not so fast, state says. Updated Feb 19, 2021; Posted Feb 19, 2021 The Borough of Deal wants to sell a .17-acre parcel at the end of Roosevelt Avenue for $1 million to the adjacent homeowner, two years after trying to sell another beachfront parcel to another property owner, on Neptune Avenue. Beach access advocates have fought both proposals.Google Facebook Share Echoing a similar beach access controversy that’s still unresolved, a proposal by the Borough of Deal to sell a quarter-acre lot to an adjacent property owner for $1 millio...