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Flushing was established as a settlement of New Netherland on October 10, 1645, on the eastern bank of Flushing Creek. It was named Vlissingen, after the Dutch city of Vlissingen . The English took control of New Amsterdam in 1664, and when Queens County was established in 1683, the Town of Flushing was one of the original five towns of Queens.
Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.It is the principal city of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Cape May County, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area. [21]
Ocean City, New Jersey boardwalk looking north at 12th Street. Ocean City, a notable dry town, first built its wooden boardwalk in 1880 from the Second Street wharf to Fourth Street and West Avenue. In 1885, plans were made to extend the boardwalk the entire length of the beach after the first amusement pavilion opened on 11th Street into the 2 ...
The Bank of Ocean City closed its Dorchester Street Branch in December 2019, and the building was donated to the town of Ocean City for the Ocean City Museum Society's use in 2020.
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On some weekend nights when flushing is in place, parts of usually two-way Ocean Boulevard are converted to be one way, with traffic directed to Highway 17 Business.
OceanFirst Bank N.A. is an American regional bank subsidiary of the U.S. financial services holding company OceanFirst Financial Corp. founded and headquartered in Ocean County, New Jersey, with operations throughout New Jersey, and in the major metropolitan markets of Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore, Boston, Washington D.C.. [2] [3]
A water park, various arcades, miniature golf courses, and a historic entertainment hall, the Ocean City Music Pier, round out the boardwalk attractions. Corson's Inlet State Park was established by the New Jersey Legislature in 1969 to protect and preserve one of the last undeveloped tracts of land along the state's oceanfront.