alone cost nearly $8 million. we did what we had to do to get the doors open, to let the people know that seaside height is open. but there is so many things we have to do. reporter: like more benches and lights. but mayor bill acres is satisfied. you can walk the boardwalk north to south and it seems like we got a few people up here today enjoying it. reporter: a few people less than a typical memorial day weekend. i would say we re doing about half of what we did last year. reporter: but that hasn t dampened spirits. look around. you couldn t ask for better weather. couldn t ask for more people. this is great. this is the golden goose, lucky leo s. we knew it would be slow, but just the idea that we re here and that naturally is the remarkable thing. reporter: what a way to ring in 100 years. i guess we re doing the same thing they did back 100 years ago. they needed to build a boardwalk. we re building it. reporter: and just to give our viewers some perspective
satisfied. you can walk the boardwalk north to south. seems like we got a few people up here today enjoying it. a few people less than a typical memorial day weekend. i would say we re doing about half of what we did last year. but that hasn t dampened spirits. i mean, look around. you couldn t ask for better weather. couldn t ask for more people. this is great. this is the golden goose, lucky leo s. we knew it was going to be slow, but just the idea that we re here that truly is the remarkable thing. what a way to ring in 100 years. i guess we re doing the same thing they did back a hundred years ago. they needed to build a boardwalk, we re building it. poppy harlow, she is joining us from seaside heights. poppy, i mean, clearly we talk to a lot of people in that community when that devastation happened. it s not 100% back, but it certainly seems like there s a lot of optimism especially going into the summer and realizing that people are coming back in that commun
it s millions. reporter: tens of millions? i would say tens of millions. reporter: the new boardwalk alone cost nearly $8 million. we did what we had to do to get the doors open, to let people know that seaside heights is open. but there s so many more things we got to do. reporter: like more benches and lights. but mayor bill acres is satisfied. you can walk the boardwalk north to north, and it seems like we got a few people up here today. enjoying it. reporter: a few people less than a typical memorial day weekend. i would say we re doing about half what we did last year. reporter: but that hasn t dampened spirits. i mean look around. you couldn t ask for better weather. couldn t ask for more people. this is great. this is the golden goose, lucky lee yo s. we knew it was going to be slow. but, just the idea that we re here, and that truly is the remarkable thing. reporter: what a way to ring in 100 years. well, i guess we re doing the same thing that they
millions? it s millions. reporter: tens of myelograms? i would say tens of millions. reporter: the new boardwalk alone cost nearly $8 million. we did what we had to do to get doors opened, to let people know seaside heights are old. there are so many more things we node to do. reporter: like more benchs an lights, but mayor bill acres is satisfied. you can walk the boardwalk north to south. it seems like we got a few people up here today enjoying it. reporter: a few pem less than a typical memorial day weekend. i would say we are doing half than last year. reporter: that hasn t dampened spirits. you couldn t ask for better weather. you couldn t ask for more people. this is great. it s the lucky leos. we knew it was going to be slow, just the idea that we are here. that truly is a remarkable thing. reporter: what a way to ring in 100 years. i guess we re doing what they did 100 years agoment they needed to build a boardwalk.