Customers wait in line for tickets for boardwalk rides in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. on Aug. 16, 2013. A new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll finds nearly 40 percent of New Jerseyans spent less time at the shore this summer, many fearing that businesses had not reopened after Superstorm Sandy last October
In this July 5, 2013 photo, swimmers in Point Pleasant Beach N.J. watch a large yacht turn around near the beach. A new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll finds nearly 40 percent of New Jerseyans spent less time at the shore this summer, many fearing that businesses had not reopened after Superstorm Sandy last October.
Strollers on the Point Pleasant Beach N.J. boardwalk on Aug. 16, 2013. A new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll finds nearly 40 percent of New Jerseyans spent less time at the shore this summer, many fearing that businesses had not reopened after Superstorm Sandy last October.
A couple walks past a flock of seagulls devouring a bag of fried onion rings they had snatched from a towel on the beach in Ship Bottom N.J. on July 24, 2013. A new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll finds nearly 40 percent of New Jerseyans spent less time at the shore this summer, many fearing that businesses had not reopened after Superstorm Sandy last Octobe
In this Aug. 14, 2013 photo, beachgoers relax on the sand in the Ortley Beach section of Toms River N.J. A new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll finds nearly 40 percent of New Jerseyans spent less time at the shore this summer, many fearing that businesses had not reopened after Superstorm Sandy last October
The Jolly Tar, a store in Bay Head N.J., remained boarded up on Sept. 24, 2013, nearly a year after Superstorm Sandy damaged it. The store was not able to reopen for the 2013 summer season. A new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll finds nearly 40 percent of New Jerseyans spent less time at the shore this summer, many fearing that businesses had not reopened after the storm