Betrouwbaar Long Branch – Michael Ashkin, Ron Jude, Danielle Mericle

Michael Ashkin’s Long Branch documents the eradication of a New Jersey working-class, beachfront neighborhood by a corrupt city government and developers in what has been described as one of the worst cases of eminent domain abuse in the country. Family homes condemned and purchased for pennies on the dollar, residents evicted, city services curtailed, mock police raids staged on abandoned homes; all to cleanse the beachfront and install sanitized condo complexes generating tremendous profit. In the end bar…