The City of Wildwood, N.J., briefly closed its boardwalk late Sunday, citing “civil unrest” at the bustling beachside attraction during the busy Memorial Day weekend but offering few details about what prompted the decision.
Declaring a state of emergency, the city closed the boardwalk after midnight, the police said. But by 6 a.m. Monday, the order had been lifted.
The Police Department in Wildwood, in a resort area on a barrier island in the southernmost part of New Jersey, announced in a social media post on Sunday night that the “civil unrest” had created “emergent conditions” that threatened “residents and visitors.”
The police provided no additional information, and a representative of the department could not immediately be reached on Monday.
