It turns out the celebration of a New Jersey Department of Transportation grant to repair a chronically flooded roadway in Ocean Gate is just the tip of the iceberg for the tiny borough.
Flanked by State Department of Transportation Commissioner Jim Simpson, Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno announces the award of a $300,000 grant to make drainage and road repairs on Monmouth Avenue in Ocean Gate.
Guadagno, a Monmouth Beach native, told Ocean Gate residents Tuesday that she knows all too well the dangers posed by an aging infrastructure built in the 1920's with terra cotta pipes on