'Just Because of His Money Trump Thinks He Can Push the Little Guy Down. I'm Not Going to Stand by and Let That Happen' Embittered Americans' Message for Aberdeen: This Is What Happens When Donald Trump Doesn't Get His Way

Sunday Herald › August 13, 2008

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THE Long Island Railroad is packed in August.

Leaving from New York's Penn Station, it travels out of Manhattan's sticky human zoo, beyond Coney Island's faded fairground. After an hour, shy of the super-rich enclave of the Hamptons, you will find Jones Beach.

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'Just Because of His Money Trump Thinks He Can Push the Little Guy Down. I'm Not Going to Stand by and Let That Happen' Embittered Americans' Message for Aberdeen: This Is What Happens When Donald Trump Doesn't Get His Way

People promenade along the two mile-long boardwalk, littered with concession stands hawking ice-cream and hot dogs. Bands play in the openair bandstand, whose Art Deco style echoes from 1929, when the area was designated a state park.

According to locals, not much has changed since then. Jones Beach has been where the city escapes to cool off in the summer since the Great Depression. It is, they claim, an unpretentious, unspoilt refuge from New York City.

Which...

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