Interlaken, New Jersey. Paul Goldfinger photo
By Paul Goldfinger, MD. Editor Blogfinger.net
Interlaken is just across Deal Lake from Asbury Park. It is .4 square miles and consists of 395 homes. The population is 820. The land in that area was purchased from the Lenape indians in 1667. Later it was purchased by a Boston physician who called it Interlaken Farms (after a town in Switzerland). It was incorporated into a borough in 1922. Interlaken has no business district. Its business is having no business.
KATHY BRIER comments on taxes: From Boardwalk Empire:
Justice Hadyn Proctor referred to Interlaken as Ocean Grove, North. It is a great town in which to live.