It was 4 years ago today, not even a full year after Superstorm Sandy devastated the shore, that many of us watched in shock as a massive fire engulfed almost all of the Seaside Park boardwalk.
In years past, one of the most familiar ways that you could tell when the boardwalk would transition from Seaside Heights to Seaside Park was when you would begin walking among the booths and businesses that populated the middle of the boardwalk.
Three summers removed from Superstorm Sandy, and two summers removed from the catastrophic fire, officials and merchants in Seaside Heights are hoping for a successful and catastrophe-free 2015 boardwalk season.
Despite several recent snowstorms that have moved through the Garden State, construction continues on the portion of the Seaside Heights boardwalk that was destroyed by fire in September.
The Seaside Park boardwalk custard shop near where September's fire is believed to have failed its electrical inspection in March and was never issued a certificate to restore its power.