With its easy access to lower Manhattan via New York Bay, Rumson, New Jersey, has attracted wealthy financiers and industrialists alike since the 1800s, who came and built showplace homes with sweeping water views on multiple acres, and traveled to work by boat.

A special place to call home, residents and tourists alike will appreciate the salty air, abundant space, and elegant architectural beauty found in this “area of the two rivers.”

A mere 5.2 square miles, this Monmouth County municipality is bound by the Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers, and is just a mile west of the Jersey Shore coastline. Today, it still attracts the likes of Wall Street executives who commute via a 45-minute high speed ferry to the financial district in Manhattan.

The Rumson Borough School District was recently designated as a high performing district by the New Jersey Department of Education. Rumson’s children attend the Deane Porter School for grades K-3, the Forrestdale School for grades 4-8, and Rumson-Fairhaven Regional High School for grades 9-12.