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TOMS RIVER – Township officials said they closed down another hotel, this time because it was uninhabitable, and the people living there had to find other places to stay.
The Parkway Motel, formerly the Americana, was closed indefinitely and will only re-open if considerable repairs are made. It was closed after inspectors visited the property located at 925 Route 166.
“We had an annual fire inspection,” business administrator Don Guardian said. Inspectors found parts of the ceiling missing, mold, electrical hazards, and trash littering the property. They returned with code enforcement. The property was deemed unlivable.
Unfortunately, there were 18 people living there at the time. Four were able to go to family members in the area. Others were able to find alternate locations. Two pets, a cat and a dog, were put up at the township’s shelter until their owners were able to find a place to go.
Most of the residents were working, but can’t afford a more permanent place to live on minimum wage jobs, Guardian said. And while paying $250 a week rent to the hotel, they were not able to save up enough money to afford an apartment, since apartments generally want two months rent and a security deposit up front.
Recently, the town had also shut down the Red Carpet Inn in the downtown area and the Pine Rest Motel on Route 37. The Pine Rest had a similar situation, in which electricity was shut down and the hotel and cabins on the property were deemed uninhabitable.
All three of them had a history of police showing up for various reasons. When the Red Carpet was shut down, several people there were charged with drug possession and distribution.
Councilman Terrance Turnbach said that as far back as 1999 he had seen cases of criminal activity at the Parkway Motel, such as violence and overdoses, while he worked for the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
However, the current residents were not arrested for anything when the motel was shut down.
Working people lived there, what a shame.
Frank W Massimino
Thank god !!!!!
Disgusting
Wow!
FEMA tried to send myself and my family there for
relief from Sandy
WHAT A JOKE !!!
Drunks n drugs n hoes!!!!
SHITHOLE
Where part of your taxes go to welfare n section 8 while they sit around n get high
Did you even read it? They’re minimum wage workers who are struggling.
Duncan Brown ok sure
Duncan Brown and send our freebies to the military not this
Even the unfortunate people that live there need a place to live so who’s the county punishing
Why does this town let it get this bad??? Now we are left with another eye sore abounded space
Smh
Crack house
Disgusting that the wonderful state just kept paying that shithole money and haven’t check that place out. A greedy owner should be jailed.
Nicholas Infantolino many, many more just like that
Andy Nemec lots of fucking scumbags that the state just allows it to happen.
I heard they rented rooms hourly, so that tells ya what kind of place it is right there. Gross.
Are there any other hourly motels in the area, asking for a friend.
Try the shitholes down 37 by the bridge?
John Patrick Butler or Lakehurst ?
Debra Labarca
Assuming the fire inspection is yearly right? So who did they pay off to pass in previous years? It did not get this bad in a year. We need the town to continue doing this with every motel in town. Clean it up or close it down. Many of these places were living off state money too so the owners should be prosecuted.
Dennis Cafiero so should the inspectors..I smell corruption and filth
How can anyone expect anything to inhabit this? It is devastating and absolutely disgusting to think people, children and animals lived in this. Better off in the woods and use your survival skills
So gross…??
God forbid we build a homeless shelter, that would make too much sense.
Let’s just keep giving taxpayer dollars to the people running these shitholes instead, most of which aren’t even from this country .
Dam, there goes my vacation spot.
250 a week you can get an apartment for that
Ive seen someone get shot there back in the day.. Place was a shit hole drug den