Sea Bright: Boro of Beach Clubs
It’s the ultimate beach town. Folks have been coming to Sea Bright for sea, sand and sun for over a century. Young and old,...
A Jersey Shore Journal ...
It’s the ultimate beach town. Folks have been coming to Sea Bright for sea, sand and sun for over a century. Young and old,...
It’s considered a “Carnegie Library.” The Long Branch Free Public Library on Broadway was funded by a Carnegie Foundation grant (which financed nearly 1,700...
Long gone now — it had an aura and electricity all to its own. Today, few people know — and even fewer care —...
Today, few people remember and even fewer know that Monmouth Beach was once a thriving commercial fishing village. While many local anglers still regularly...
Sea Bright’s magnificent 19th century oceanfront mansions … A classic part of town heritage were the massive “cottages” — seashore castles made of wood...
They were a couple of rocks in the sturdy foundation of what became Monmouth Beach — Garrett White and Nelson Lockwood. Both men exhibited...
Pool & Surf Swimming in the City … Times 3 The old city pier and boardwalk area — in all its guises — is...
“Sandy Hook’s historic resort paradise” The beginnings of Highland Beach as a seashore resort date back to “Gilded Age” times. This iconic location —...
No locals on the list … that’s good! He’s known popularly as “Dr. Beach.” Director of the Florida International University Laboratory for Coastal Research...
It’s hard to call it Sea Bright’s most iconic oceanfront building. There’s been so many others. But few, if any, had a nickname. Locals...
The Shrewsbury River has played an important role in the social and commercial development of Monmouth Beach. In the early years, it was a...
Daniel J. Maher is certainly one of the most fascinating leaders — both civic and commercial — in all Long Branch history. This epic...
The location has been the focal point of municipal government for more than 130 years now. Long Branch — during its rich and storied...
Experts Predict “Extremely Active” Storm Season … Living at the shore comes at a price. Wise lifelong coastal residents know this. It’s understood that...
Poet of the City … Long Branch native Robert Pinsky — a three-term Poet Laureate of the United States, distinguished Professor of English, and...
* * * * * Although seven American chief executives have visited Long Branch — this 19th Century’s “Resort of Presidents” —...