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D O S OMETHING FOR

Y OUR C OMMUNITY

Tr ump on the Ocea n

eople who live in New York City have all heard of Jones
PBeach. The beach and the boardwalk are part of a fabled his-
tory that began with the great Robert Moses—he considered
this waterfront park on Long Island as his greatest achievement.
I visited Jones Beach as a teenager, and it has always been a spe-
cial place to me, as it is to thousands of people. So I was
delighted when the opportunity came to renovate a major piece
of it. When former parks commissioner Bernadette Castro
reviewed my plans, she considered them “like a gift from God.”
We announced this project in September 2006, with a proposed
opening in the spring of 2009.

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