Seaside Park

You never really know how you're going to react to a situation or the range of emotions you'll feel until you're actually in it. Cut to my friends and I out in Chelsea on Saturday night when terrorism got entirely too close.

Law enforcement has taken into custody Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man wanted in connection to the weekend bombings in New York City and Seaside Park, New Jersey.

New York and New Jersey on edge after same-day explosions in Seaside Park and Manhattan. These are the groups that want to hurt us.

Authorities continue to investigate a pair of explosions in New York City and New Jersey that appear to be unrelated.

No connection has been made between Saturday's explosions in Seaside Park and New York City, but the San Gennaro Festival in Belmar has been canceled.

The explosion prompted other Jersey Shore towns to sweep public trash cans and add security to their own events Saturday. The Festival of the Sea in Point Pleasant Beach was also canceled.

"The beach isn't an ashtray; the ocean isn't one either," Seaside Park's borough administrator said.

Just in time for Labor Day weekend, Seaside Park has announced it is now offering free Wi-Fi service along its entire 1.6-mile boardwalk, becoming the first beach in New Jersey to do so.

It is a yearly issue for beach patrols up and down the shore as students head back to college.

Realty groups from Exit 98 down to Exit 4 on the Garden State Parkway claim business is significantly better right now compared to the same time last year.