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Photos, Video: Seaside Heights Roller Coaster Gets Demolished
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Jen Chung
Published May 15, 2013
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Yesterday, crews removed the Jetstar Roller Coaster from the Atlantic Ocean. The roller coaster had been a Seaside Heights, NJ attraction, but it slid into the water during Hurricane Sandy.
A new roller coaster be constructed—and it's going to be called Super Storm. Seaside Heights Mayor Bill Akers said, "We hope that it’s perceived in a positive way, that we’re back, we know the force of Mother Nature, and that we respect that, and this is our way of celebrating," but one boardwalker business owner told the Wall Street Journal, "I don’t want a reminder of superstorm Sandy, that’s how I feel about it. would have thought of something different."
And this is what it was like to ride the Jetstar:
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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