[fineoldethings]

Your question made me smile (ironically) and remember. I lived on Hanover St in Piscataway during my whole childhood. The apartment complex of Pleasantview Gardens was built on a farm!! The whole neighborhood was devastated when the farm was sold to "developers" and the neighborhood and traffic situation changed forever. Once the barns were torn down, the ponds filled in, the cornfields gone...it was never the same.

[Tamzee]

I think the entire state of NJ was built in that manner :-(

My husband grew up in Freehold and there were several acres behind his road of undeveloped land - fields and wooded area. One day some construction crews showed up and built an apartment complex there almost the size of Pleasantview Gardens... big, sprawling, and yes, ugly.

We just moved back to the Tri-State area now after having lived in New Hampshire recently. Our house there was part of a pretty community association, nice little houses with a tiny private lake. After we bought the house we found out that the lake and homes were built on what was once a mink farm. The area residents were NOT sad to see that go, however, the minks had quite a reputation for being vicious little neighbors ;-)