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Long Beach Island is located 24 miles (39 km) north of Atlantic City 61 miles (98 km) east-southeast of Philadelphia and 101 miles (163 km) south of New York City. LBI is approximately 18 miles (29 km) in length, which includes three miles (5 km) of marsh protected as part of Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge located on the southern tip.
Route 72 is a major route providing access to Long Beach Island, a popular Jersey Shore resort, from Philadelphia via Route 70 and from New York City via the Garden State Parkway. [4] As such, the portion of the route east of the Garden State Parkway interchange sees congestion during the summer months. [5]
Harvey Cedars is a coastal borough situated on the Jersey Shore, in southern Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The borough encompasses a narrow strip of Long Beach Island fronting both the Atlantic Ocean and Barnegat Bay.
Beach Haven, known as the "Queen City," [24] is a late 19th-century beachfront resort originally established in 1873 to house wealthy summer residents from Philadelphia. . Although some of the major structures, including several hotels and a boardwalk, were lost to storms in the 1940s including the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, [25] a large portion of the town retains its Victorian and ...
In a broader sense, Barnegat Bay is sometimes considered to stretch to the south end of Long Beach Island and to include Little Egg Harbor. Three bridges span the bay from the mainland to the peninsula: the Mantoloking Bridge from Brick Township to Mantoloking, and the Thomas A. Mathis and J. Stanley Tunney Bridges from Toms River to Ortley Beach.
Surf City is a borough situated on the Jersey Shore in southern Ocean County, within the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,243, [10] an increase of 38 (+3.2%) from the 2010 census count of 1,205, [20] [21] which in turn had reflected a decline of 237 (−16.4%) from the 1,442 counted in the 2000 census. [22]
The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences offers an After School Arts Education Program to area schools, an Artists Residency and Retreat Program for New Jersey Artists, Visiting Artists in Ceramics during the summer season, and ceramics scholarships and residency opportunities.
The area is on Long Beach Island, west of Barnegat Light. The area has no beaches of its own, however, residents have a less than 10 minute walk to the beaches of Barnegat Light and must display Barnegat Light beach badges for access in season. The 400 homes on the lagoons were developed in the mid-1950s.