Today as you visit Ocean County’s newly restored Cedar Bridge Tavern, off Route 72 in Barnegat, you should take a moment while enjoying the silence to reflect on the fact that if things had gone differently you would be standing at the end of a projected airport runway in the sprawl of “New City,” with a population of over a quarter million residents. Most people became aware of the project when the Trenton Times ran a story on Jan. 24, 1960.

“A Jetport – the biggest in the world – might come to Trenton’s back yard.