They close the bike path too.

>>My favorite is the city's need to put up the boardwalk "Holiday Lights" 3 weeks before halloween.
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>Need? They need the money. That's when they start charging $7 anyone who wants to drive the boardwalk from 2nd to 42nd (or maybe only 28th?) street. And of course you can't really walk then, unless you stick to the bikers' path.
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>Last years I could have got the ticket cheaper - they were selling them via kids in schools. And no, I didn't take it. The thing's for tourists, anyway.