To the Editor:

I miss the ramp to nowhere.

In an era when playgrounds look like the lobby of a pediatric safety conference, I long for Sunset Park in Harvey Cedars back when the main attraction was a wooden ramp that soared majestically into midair and then just stopped, as if the architect had gone out for a beer and never returned. It was a structure that seemed to have been designed by a committee of pirates and careless uncles.

Kids would scramble up the ramp, reach the point where all reasonable construction had ended, and then face a choice…

August 5, 2026