SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - Vice President Biden spent part of Sunday visiting storm-wrecked parts of New Jersey and telling residents the federal government won't abandon them.
Biden, a Scranton, Pa., native who grew up in Delaware and spent summers at the Jersey Shore as a boy, stopped on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights to say he's "a homeboy" who understands the need to rebuild the shore. Later, at the Hoboken Terminal, he said Sandy brought with the devastation an opportunity to rebuild public transit infrastructure that's strong enough to withstand the challenges of the next century. "We're going to come back better," he said at the Hoboken PATH station, which remains out of service since the storm flooded it.
