Long Branch City Hall History
This Broadway site has been the focal point of municipal government for more than 130 years now. Long Branch — during its rich and...
Author: Greg Kelly
MB Bathing Pavilion Images …
The Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion (MBBP) — the borough’s public beach club — has operated for more than a century of summers. I’ve favored...
Looking at the LBPD
Long Branch Police Department service dates back to a Civil War Hero … Like most law enforcement agencies — they’ve been both admired and...
Pier Dancing and the Depression
It was “Great Depression” times and Long Branch tried to shuffle on by. Back some 90 summers ago. Today, nearly no one remembers the...
Fine Art in Monmouth Beach
A grand glance of old Monmouth Beach … She is the borough’s “artist-in-residence” — Gail H. Gannon — now in perpetuity upon her passing...
Monmouth Beach & USA — Celebrate ’76
Monmouth Beach-American Bicentennial — 49 years ago. In July 1976, the borough of Monmouth Beach joined in with the nation celebrating its 200th birthday...
Green Inn — Galilee Glamor
The wealthy founders of “Monmouth Beach” in the early 1870s were determined to avoid the “hotel crowd” scene that made up most of Long...
Oldest Pharmacy in Long Branch
Pharmacist, Doctor, Mayor — All in North End The city’s longest operating pharmacy was started in North Long Branch more than 125 years ago....
Monmouth Beach — “Gold Heroes”
They were a couple of rocks in the sturdy foundation of what became Monmouth Beach — Garrett White and Nelson Lockwood. Both men exhibited...
The MB-SB Elevated Highway?
Area motorists — weary of the bumper-to-bumper traffic along Ocean Avenue-Route 36 in the summer — would have loved this deal. It’s a sweet...
Long Branch Casino: City Crowning
Start of a City … The Long Branch Casino — majestically considered and placed where the city’s two greatest boulevards meet — had a...
Robert Pinsky — Master Poet of Long Branch
Poet of the City … Long Branch native Dr. Robert Pinsky — a three-term Poet Laureate of the United States, distinguished Professor of English,...
“Road Scholars” — Borough Public Works Leadership
“Learning From the Best” … Monmouth Beach homeowners are absolutely and correctly proud about the way their town looks. Appearances count big-time in real...
MBPO: A Century of Delivering
The United States Post Office at Monmouth Beach (07750) — marked 100 years of service in 2024 — has had three homes in borough...
Monmouth Beach Historical Committee
The borough of Monmouth Beach has formed a new organization: * * * * * Monmouth Beach Historical Committee Organized June 2024 “The purpose...
MB First Aid Squad — History & Photos
The borough’s First Aid Squad has come a long way since its founding 65 years ago. The all-volunteer group is today called the Monmouth...
