On one block are Gelbstein’s Bakery, Bookman’s Kosher Meat and Poultry, and Schreiber’s Shoes, all owned and frequented by members of Lakewood’s large Orthodox Jewish community. Down the street are Puebla Travel and Latin Music, El Nuevo Mexico Records and Panaderia Mexicana, which cater to the town’s growing Latino population.
By 4:30 p.m. on a Friday, the tempo shifts, as the Jewish-owned shops close for the Sabbath, but the pulse picks up in the Latino businesses.
Clifton Avenue is more than Lakewood’s Main Street business district. In this Ocean County community — named by the 2010 Census as the fastest-growing town in New Jersey during the past decade — the street is a microcosm of how the town functions, and a portrait of the residents who have turned this onetime iron foundry and resort town into Jersey’s boom town.
To the surprise of almost everyone outside of Lakewood, Census data released last week showed the township’s population soared by more than 32,000, from 60,352 residents in 2000, to 92,843 in 2010. The increase vaults Lakewood into the state’s top 10 list of most-populated towns, at number seven. Full story in Star Ledger.
and the DPW needs LESS workers!!
And less PD ? Sham on Lakewood .
how many are working ; legal; & tax paying people…?
And so many types of schools! Can anyone tell me where toras zev is located and what the phone number is? Thanks
what is there for the other tax payers?????????????
“into Jersey’s boom town.”
Uh, so where’s all the money?
not the place for hard working christion anglo saxon people…? and nobody sees a pattern in this town in the last five or ten years .
I checked out the article as I was curious to see a piece of writing about Lakewood that didn’t sound that negative. So of course all the comments were about how we are all racists criminals who are ruining the city. Figures.
#7 you said it not me..
No, he didn’t, but you just implied it you anti-semite!
“doesitmatter” finally comes out with it. Better than hiding behind “relativism” and “fairness”. Good for you.