Over $65 million in construction is currently underway and another $25 million is planned or on the drawing board. Among the new developments is Cove on the Bay, 184 luxury rentals and 10,000 square feet of retail, and Pier 260–a three-story restaurant with a rooftop bar and view of the City skyline. What local officials call the "billion-dollar view" looking north from Keansburg's now nationally recognized restored beach toward (l-r) Staten Island, Manhattan, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Keansburg got a surge of recognition from the nation’s beach replenishment community on Tuesday, when the borough’s Raritan Bay beachfront was named one of America’s 5 Best Restored Beaches for 2020 by the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association.
In Keansburg, the beach was widened and a protective dune was built with a wooden walkway on top, affording what local officials refer to as a “billion-dollar view” of the bay and the New York City skyline beyond.
In addition to its beach, the borough’s bayfront features Keansburg Amusement Park and Runaway Rapids Waterpark as well as the view. And Keansburg made the top-5 restored beach list amid an ongoing attempt to burnish its image, which has faded since the borough was established in the early 20th Century as a seaside resort largely for New Yorkers ferried across Raritan Bay.
Keansburg’s beach was the first in New Jersey to make the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association’s top 5 list since 2018, when Thompson’s Beach on the Delaware Bay in Maurice River Township was named for an environmental project intended to preserve a habitat for horseshoe crabs.
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