Where do you
like to walk at night? For many decades one of the finest promenades in
America has been the coast of New Jersey, where boardwalks stretch out along
miles of Atlantic beach, linking town after town after town. I worked there
for the Historical American Buildings Survey one summer a few years ago,
and remember meeting people who would catch the train out of Manhattan after
work, take a dip in the ocean, have dinner and then walk several stations
down the shore line before hopping a late train back to New York.