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Bowles Provides Hope in Elizabeth

Elizabethport, NJ may have undergone a major facelift since Todd Bowles was a child, but the Jets head coach hasn’t changed much at all. The community celebrated Saturday as they renamed their sports park the Todd Bowles Waterfront Sports Complex. And the native son — a 52-year-old man who friends say largely remains unchanged since his adolescence — continued to point to others for his personal and professional successes.

“This whole neighborhood raised me and is part of this field today,” Bowles said. “And since Migliore Manner and Pioneer Homes aren’t here right now, this is all a part of what we built growing up.