While the gin-soaked golfers at the Maidstone formally abandon their wives, mistresses and kids for the rest of the summer, in the city it’s a hot-dog-and-potato-salad-binge day —although last time we checked, we definitely don’t have a backyard, so we’re inexplicably forced to endure the heartburn-inducing Nathan’s International July Fourth Hotdog Eating Contest in Coney Island, featuring people who engage in gluttony for a living and not just for shameful late-night stress relief. Read the full article at the original source (The New York Observer)…

Added to EveryBlock on July 1, 2008.