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Get to Know Fair Haven

Fair Haven, though part of the Jersey Shore, as well as being near enough to New York City to be considered a suburb, is neither a boardwalk vacationland nor a cookie-cutter bedroom community. Rather, it’s closer to a small-town idyll that happens to be located on the banks of the Navesink River. The majority of Fair Haven’s schoolkids bike to school — with estimates as high as 75% in nice weather — and the town closes Third Street during school arrival and dismissal times to car traffic, so that the stream of students and teachers can cycle safely down the road. In fact, tradition has it that at the end of third grade, when the local kids move to the middle school, all the parents stand along Third Street to wave off the graduates who bike with the principal and school superintendent to their literal (and symbolic) future.

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Living in Monmouth County

Monmouth is a coastal county that marks the start of the Jersey Shore, host to such storied seaside communities as Sea Bright, Asbury Park, and Long Branch. It also notches far inland, with a western edge on the outskirts of Trenton mere miles from the Pennsylvania border. The county’s lighthouse-flanked north shore, about-face across Raritan Bay from Staten Island and Brooklyn, has historically acted as the final approach to New York Harbor, bending around Sandy Hook towards the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Residents along the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers — tidal estuaries, in fact — enjoy easy boating to open waters, with a series of navigable creeks, canals, and lagoons amplifying the waterfront real estate opportunities. Beyond beaches and boardwalks, there’s plenty else: Freehold Raceway, the site of America’s longest Revolutionary War battle, and Allaire State Park, known for its 19th-century ironworks and vintage train rides. NJ Transit service keeps Manhattan, Philadelphia and beyond in easy reach.