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The article offers travel tips for Jersey City, New Jersey and includes recommendations for dining, accommodations, shopping, harbor cruises, and historic excursions.

WHILE towns along the Jersey Shore reinvented themselves during the boom of the aughts, sprouting boutique hotels and upscale restaurants, Asbury Park retained a refreshing, rare Americana charm. Restaurants -- and boutique hotels -- arrived, but they have had to share the Boardwalk with nostalgic attractions like a pinball museum and a psychic. And a majestic urban ghost presides over it all: the Boardwalk ends at the magnificent shell of a 1920s-era casino and carousel house. If Asbury Park's history of bust and rebirth offers a lesson, it's that hard luck inspires good times. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]