Mr. Akers, the Seaside Heights mayor, said he, too, hoped the name would attract crowds.
Still, the Seaside Heights surfers worry their favorite spot will never be the same.
In nearby Brigantine, 50% of residents refused to evacuate and 25% didn't in Seaside Heights, state officials said.
Their stories led her to make "A Life Outside, " a feature-length documentary on their lives and the Seaside Heights surf scene.
When the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour rolls into Seaside Heights, N.
The roller coaster that plunged off a pier in Seaside Heights, N.
The demolition of the coaster was on the same day Prince Harry toured storm damage in Seaside Heights and Mantoloking in Ocean County.
Long before Snooki made Seaside Heights a mecca for bad behavior, I made the Jersey Shore my own as a wide-eyed young girl.
They cite towns such as Seaside Park, which had 20-foot high dunes and was far less damaged during Sandy than nearby Seaside Heights and Mantoloking.
In Seaside Heights, a family-vacation spot, large sections of the town's boardwalk splintered into the waves, leaving little more than timbers strewn along the beach.
It was esoteric, " said Bucky Walters, a 61-year-old carpenter who had to be evacuated from his Seaside Heights home during Sandy "It was like a motorcycle gang.
The Nov.ember 15 special encourages viewers to contribute to the rebuilding of Seaside Heights, the main location of MTV's hit "Jersey Shore, " which will soon air its final episode.
Soon after taking up the sport in 2009, Ms. Brabec met Jim Purpuri, a 60-year-old Seaside Park carpenter while in New Jersey and started riding with the veteran Seaside Heights surfers.
Sand dunes helped protect the New Jersey town of Seaside Park more than its dune-less neighbor Seaside Heights when Superstorm Sandy hit last fall, said Laurie Mcgilvray, a government coastline science expert.
Officials in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, initially disdainful of the attention that the show brought to their seedy boardwalk, have clamored for its return and MTV is now filming season three back at the original location.
While the old pier was held up by wooden pilings, the new structure likely will be built with a mix of wooden and concrete supports and made to meet tougher standards set by Seaside Heights and the state.
The prospect of honky-tonk entertainment districts like the one in Seaside Heights, once home to the hard-partying Snooki and company of the reality show "Jersey Shore, " is anathema to many in oceanfront neighborhoods where even smaller houses can go for several million dollars.
The breakers are now stronger two blocks north and south of the structure, or directly in front of the pier where the wrecked Jet Star remains, said Greg "Grog" Mesanko, a 62-year-old Toms River resident who for years was at the center of the Seaside Heights surf culture.
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