I’m walkin’ here on Central Ave. at the corner of Central and Sea View, facing Lake Avenue and Wesley Lake to the north. Ocean Grove, January 13, 2016. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click to see the corner. ©
Central Avenue ends abruptly at Sea View Avenue (the street where the Park View Inn sits, awaiting demolition—already approved by the HPC) Central Ave. meets a property line (see the grass?) and does not meet Lake Avenue which meanders along the white bulkhead, east and west.
If Lake Avenue were a street, Central Avenue would have met Lake and allowed cars to take a right turn. This point where Central meets the property line is shown on the tax map as a property line. But the surveyor’s “key map” has removed the tax map’s property line to give the impression that the truth doesn’t exist.
Question: Where did the surveyor get his license?
Lake Avenue. If you are on Central Avenue, you cross a grassy area and then turn right on Lake Avenue. This is what you see looking east. Blogfinger photo. © Man 14, 2016.
This is an area of Lake Avenue which was recently rebuilt. Clearly it was built to continue its normal function as a walkway, and it is a lovely walkway indeed. I don’t know that anybody in the world, except for most of the “experts” at the Neptune Township Planning Board, would call this a “street” or a “road.”
The Park View Inn site is just a short distance east of here. If someone wanted to turn this into an actual street, which no one is currently proposing, they would have to dig up this whole area and they would have to infringe on a number of homes with front yards currently built up to the edge of the sidewalk. I bet many Grovers would lay down in front of the bulldozers if that were attempted by a stone-deaf Neptune Township Committee.
* Ratso Rizzo while crossing a busy Times Square street with John Voight.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger and Jack Bredin, researcher @Blogfinger.
This piece deserves two songs:
HARRY NILSSON from Midnight Cowboy
SHORTY LONG from The Most Happy Fella on Broadway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c412hqucHKw
I was told Dustin Hoffman ad-libbed this because the taxi was one who ran the barriers and was not supposed to be there. So Dustin went with the surprise in the scene.
That 100+ year old wall would have to be rebuilt and engineered to stand up to the greatly increased pressure of traffic as well. We’re talking serious money not to mention the environmental impact on the flood basin.