Point Pleasant Beach

Point Pleasant Beach is a small borough in the region. This seaside community is often called Point Pleasant by tourists. In fact Point Pleasant Beach, a coastal town that sees a large influx of summer visitors, is a separate political entity from its western neighbor - .
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  • Type: Town with 4,550 residents
  • Description: borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States
  • Also known as: “Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey” and “Point Pleasant Beach, NJ”
  • Postal code: 08742
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Point Pleasant Beach station and Bay Head station.

Railway station
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is an active commuter railroad station in the borough of Point Pleasant Beach, . Located at the junction of State Route 35 northbound and Arnold Avenue, the station serves trains of NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line between New York Penn Station and , the next station south.

Railway station
Bay Head is a railway station in , in , , . The station is served by trains on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, and it is the southern terminus for the line.

Museum
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The is headquartered in , with a second museum located in , , and operates under the auspices of the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. is situated 2 miles north of Point Pleasant Beach.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Point Pleasant and Bay Head.

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is a small borough in the region. This close-to-the-coast community is often confused with its coastal neighbor, Beach.

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is a village of fewer than 1,000 people in , It lies 80 km east of Philadelphia, 110 km south of New York City and 40 km north of Atlantic City, along the Jersey coast.

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is a shore community of 5,800 people in southern , and is known for its beaches, recreational fishing and home-town feel.

Point Pleasant Beach

Latitude
40.0919° or 40° 5′ 31″ north
Longitude
-74.0482° or 74° 2′ 54″ west
Population
4,550
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Abbreviation
“Pt. Pleasant Beach”
United Nations Location Code
US PP3
Open location code
87G73XR2+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158901306
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5102798
Wiki­data ID
Q674008
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Point Pleasant Beach” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوينت بليزانت بيتش”
  • Asturian: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Basque: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Belarusian: “Пойнт-Плезант-Біч”
  • Catalan: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Cebuano: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Chechen: “Пойнт-Плезант-Бич”
  • Chinese: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Chinese: “波因特普莱森特比奇”
  • Chinese: “波因特普萊森特比奇”
  • Dutch: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Finnish: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • French: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • German: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Gilaki: “پؤینت پلزنت بیچ (نيۊجرسي)”
  • Gilaki: “پؤینت پلزنت بیچ”
  • Haitian: “Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Italian: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Japanese: “ポイント・プレザント・ビーチ”
  • Japanese: “ポイントプレザントビーチ”
  • Kazakh: “Пойнт Плижант Бич”
  • Kirghiz: “Пойнт Плижант Бич”
  • Ladin: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Mazanderani: “پوینت پلیزنت بیچ (نیوجرسی)”
  • Mazanderani: “پوینت پلیزنت بیچ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Point Pleasant Beach (New Jersey)”
  • Norwegian: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Persian: “پوینت پلیزنت بیچ، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “پوینت پلیزنت بیچ”
  • Portuguese: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Serbian: “Поинт Плезант Бич”
  • Serbian: “Појнт Плезант Бич”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Spanish: “Point Pleasant Beach (Nueva Jersey)”
  • Spanish: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Swedish: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Tamil: “பாயிண்ட் பிளசண்டு பீச், நியூ செர்சி”
  • Tamil: “பாயிண்ட் பிளசண்டு பீச்”
  • Tatar: “Пойнт-Плезант-Бич”
  • Ukrainian: “Пойнт-Плезант-Біч”
  • Urdu: “پوائنٹ پلیزنٹ بیچ، نیو جرسی”
  • Uzbek: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Volapük: “Point Pleasant Beach”
  • Welsh: “Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Point Pleasant Beach”

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