Wayside is an

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located along the border of Tinton Falls Borough and Ocean Township in Monmouth County,

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, United States. The community is largely residential though some churches, parks, and schools are located in the area. The main arterial roads in the community are Hope Road (through which the Tinton Falls–Ocean Township municipal line runs), Wayside Road ( County Route 38 in Tinton Falls), and West Park Avenue. Access to

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is available via nearby interchanges with Deal Road, West Park Avenue, and Wayside Road; the

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's exit 105 is also located north of Wayside. The building that once housed the 16-lane Wayside Bowl-O-Drome is still in use, now as an office building.

Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Wayside include: * Bob Davis (born 1945), former NFL quarterback whose career included three seasons with the

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. *

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(born 1995), racing driver who won the 2014

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in the GS class. *

Oren Liebermann Oren Liebermann is an American journalist who works as a Pentagon correspondent for CNN. Biography Liebermann was born in Virginia on October 13, 1982. He spent his childhood in Virginia and Israel until he was raised in the Wayside section o ...

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Jerusalem correspondent *

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(born 1964), media personality and former radio jock host of ''

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''.Fishman, Steve
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'', October 16, 2005. Accessed December 3, 2007. "As a youngster, Wendy did not seem destined for success on the radio, or anywhere else. She grew up in Wayside, New Jersey, an upper-middle-class part of Ocean Township, one of four black students in her class, and one of the heaviest of any race."

References

Tinton Falls, New Jersey Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in Monmouth County, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in New Jersey {{MonmouthCountyNJ-geo-stub