History
West Long Branch broke away from Eatontown in 1908, after a resident vote — the usual story locally was that the area felt it was not getting enough back for its taxes as part of the larger borough. It is now home to Monmouth University, founded in 1933 and chartered as a university in 1995, which brings a run of off-campus rental housing into the mix alongside standard single-family streets.
Source: Wikipedia — West Long Branch, New Jersey; Wikipedia — Monmouth University







