The oil washed up even though workers on the beach have been laying boom along the waterline and replacing it as it gets soaked with incoming oil.

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It tapped directly into long summer rides to Jones Beach with the dash-mounted eight-track blasting, to boom boxes in the Rockaways and Beach Haven, and turntables in back bedrooms of ethnic neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and the burbs.

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Hotels and restaurants are being erected in almost every part of the town and in nearby beach areas as the construction boom continues.

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Still, whether they are in coastal beach shacks or rubber-boom-era buildings in the Amazon, cevicherias really fill up on the weekends, when a visit becomes an all-day affair with friends and family.

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Outside the picture shows, it was like the boom of the Twenties never happened -- not in North Beach.

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In 1926 South Beach was flattened by the most destructive hurricane in American history, and the subsequent building boom celebrated every permutation of Art Deco, from Streamline Moderne to Mediterranean.

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