Editing Dover Beaches South, New Jersey (section)

==History==
[[File:Starlight Motel (Ortley Beach, New Jersey) P001 crop.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Starlight Motel (since 1973) on Route 35 North in Ortley Beach]]

The current location of Ortley Beach was once home to [[Cranberry Inlet]], an important maritime route that closed after an 1812 storm.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mikle |first1=Jean |title=Learn the mystery history of Toms River neighborhoods |url=https://www.app.com/story/news/history/2017/06/22/toms-rivers-neighborhoods-draft/410041001/ |access-date=June 1, 2022 |work=Asbury Park Press |date=June 22, 2017}}</ref> The area was opened to development by the completion of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] on the peninsula in 1883 and the completion of what is now [[New Jersey Route 35|Route 35]] in 1913.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kralik |first1=Marilyn |title=Brick Township Historical Survey |url=https://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/hrrcn_sandy_OCE_GB_147_148_PDF/OCE_GB_148_v07.pdf |website=New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Historic Preservation Office}}</ref> The community was settled as a vacation resort in the 1940s and 1950s. There were several unsuccessful efforts to secede from Dover Township in the latter half of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Secession Try Brewing |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43121562/ortley-beach-secession-try-september/ |work=[[Asbury Park Press]] |date=September 24, 1969 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Secession bill fails in Assembly |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43122151/ortley-secession-bill-fails-march-1991/ |work=[[Asbury Park Press]] |date=March 22, 1991 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> After suffering widespread damage to its housing stock during [[Hurricane Sandy]], some publications have argued that Ortley Beach is undergoing gentrification as high rebuilding costs have pushed out older residents and ushered in a new wave of luxury homes.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaysen |first1=Ronda |title=Back to the Jersey Shore |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/realestate/back-to-the-jersey-shore.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 4, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Capuzzo |first1=Jill |title=Not Your Mother's Jersey Shore |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/realestate/hurricane-sandy-rebuilding-jersey-shore-towns.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lynn |first1=Kathleen |title=Ortley Beach: A Shore Town Transformed |url=https://njmonthly.com/articles/just-for-the-web/ortley-beach-shore-town-transformed/ |website=New Jersey Monthly |date=April 19, 2018}}</ref>