One thing that doesn’t hurt a tourism-based economy is when famous people name-drop Long Beach Island, as veteran TV journalists Bill Maher and Brian Williams did a couple weeks ago on Maher’s podcast, “Club Random.”

LBI enjoys frequent celebrity sightings and claims to fame – Ray Romano, Robyn Quivers, Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley, and Rosie O’Donnell, to name a few.