Anchored along the bay, just north of the Causeway in Ship Bottom, lies a quiet residential neighborhood of mostly year-round homes – its calmness surprisingly audible even with the sole exit from Long Beach Island a stone’s throw away on Eighth Street. If approved, a proposal to convert a portion of a longstanding Shore Avenue marina into a bar/restaurant and family entertainment venue could alter that atmosphere seasonally.

TRIFECTA: Parking, traffic and noise top concerns of Ship Bottom residents living in the Shore Avenue neighborhood where the Salt Shack Café (above) is proposed as part of a makeover of Hochstrasser’s Marina (top) on Eighth Street. (Supplied Rendering)

“This is a very quiet neighborhood, and I don’t know if the forefathers of Ship Bottom really envisioned this to be put…