Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey
| Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey | |
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| Borough | |
| Borough of Point Pleasant Beach | |
Jenkinson's Boardwalk
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 Map of Point Pleasant Beach in Ocean County. Inset: Location of Ocean County highlighted in the State of New Jersey. |
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 Census Bureau map of Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates: 40°05′33″N 74°02′43″W / 40.092566°N 74.045173°WCoordinates: 40°05′33″N 74°02′43″W / 40.092566°N 74.045173°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 New Jersey
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| County | Ocean |
| Incorporated | May 18, 1886 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Borough |
| • Body | Borough Council |
| • Mayor | Stephen D. Reid (R, term ends December 31, 2019) |
| • Administrator | Christine Riehl |
| • Clerk | Eileen A. Farrell |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.744 sq mi (4.516 km2) |
| • Land | 1.427 sq mi (3.695 km2) |
| • Water | 0.317 sq mi (0.821 km2) 18.18% |
| Area rank | 427th of 566 in state 19th of 33 in county |
| Elevation | 7 ft (2 m) |
| Population (2010 Census) | |
| • Total | 4,665 |
| • Estimate (2015) | 4,552 |
| • Rank | 388th of 566 in state 15th of 33 in county |
| • Density | 3,270.1/sq mi (1,262.6/km2) |
| • Density rank | 202nd of 566 in state 7th of 33 in county |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern (EDT) (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 08742 |
| Area code(s) | 732 |
| FIPS code | 3402959910 |
| GNIS feature ID | 885358 |
| Website | www |
Point Pleasant Beach is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 4,665, reflecting a decline of 649 (-12.2%) from the 5,314 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 202 (+4.0%) from the 5,112 counted in the 1990 Census.
Point Pleasant Beach was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 18, 1886, from portions of Brick Township, subject to the results of a referendum passed the previous day.
The borough is situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, a long, narrow barrier peninsula that divides the Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean at the Manasquan Inlet, and the borough derives its name from this location. The borough's boardwalk is approximately one mile long, spanning the coastline from the Manasquan Inlet at the north to New Jersey Avenue in the south. The central third of the boardwalk is largely amusement rides, the Jenkinsons Arcades, pizza joints, ice cream parlors, games-of-chance and miniature golf courses. Point Pleasant Beach is also the northern terminus of the East Coast's Intracoastal Waterway. It is near Point Pleasant borough, a municipality independent of Point Pleasant Beach.
It was ranked the eighth-best beach in New Jersey in the 2008 Top 10 Beaches Contest sponsored by the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
The area that includes Point Pleasant Beach was first used by the Lenape Native Americans. On September 2, 1609, Henry Hudson and the crew of his ship, Half Moon, noticed the area on their way north to explore the Hudson River. Crew member Robert Juet noted in his journal, "This is a very good Land to fall with and a pleasant Land to see." The first European settlers were fisherman and farmers who first arrived in the 18th century. Summer tourism began in the early 19th century when Quaker Thomas Cook Jr. opened his farmhouse on the site of the current Antrim Elementary School to boarders, which began the trend that transformed the area into an oceanfront haven for visitors, a trend further established in the 1870 by Captain John Arnold, who built a roadway to the ocean, now known as Arnold Avenue. In 1875, he built the first bridge over the Manasquan River, linking the town to Brielle. He later convinced the Central Jersey Railroad to extend its service to Point Pleasant Beach, which it did beginning on July 3, 1880.
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