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Yeshivas
BMG- Biggest Yeshiva in the USA and perhaps the world.
https://www.bmg.edu/

Restaurants

Comprehensive list of Lakewood Restaurants here
Entree http://entreerestaurant.com - Best upscale meat place with great food and service 
Revolve- A new small upscale nice and different meat place.
Estreia - most upscale restaurant around but food could use improvement 
Ottimo  https://www.ottimocafe.com/ best and nicest dairy restaurant
cafotteria http://cafotteria.com/ nice dairy restaurant/cafe modern style
www.paninicafelakewood.com nice small restaurant , delicious food
Pizzano- A pizza store with nice sit down area also has a large dairy menu ( served to table )
Upper Crust- A nice sit down area with large dairy menu ( Full waiter service )

Fast Food
Meat
Glatt Bite- Massive menu with fast service and delicious American and Chinese food.
D'LUX- Massive menu with fast service. American, Chinese, and sushi
Yussies- Deli and sandwiches. Delicious fries.
Glatt Gourmet- best homemade take out food (also sandwiches and chinese)
Yapchik- Nice menu great homemade take out, or eat in, best shabbes meat selection
Bun- Nice new place, great burgers
Sushi Express- sushi and Chinese, they deliver 732-901-7874
South Side Sandwich Shop- Fast-food joint Extensive sandwich menu. Has delicious smoked Ribs/Lamb brisket and chicken. Friendly service.
Snaps- Fast food in Westgate
Mikes Chicken Crunchers - variety of fried chicken and sandwiches
Dairy
Circa - Clean pizza store/cafe with large menu + sushi.
Pizza Place- A pizza store with a large dairy menu and very nice setting located in WestGate 732.730.1144
Pizza Plus, 4th st btwn Clifton and Lexington. Original Lakewood pizza store. Foods great. Best pizza around
J2- Pizza and sushi in Shoprite plaza. Pizza is good, great sushi. Service is not good.
Village Pizza (2 locatioons) - Pizza store with a dairy menu

Bagel Nosh - Legendary bagel store, needs no introduction
4 Corners (4 locations) , bagel store+ sushi ]
Coffee
French Press - Freshly Roasted exotic coffee beans. Ground and brewed on demand by the cup. Standard method is pour over, but you can request just about any. Ask which brand are freshest.

Shuls
Kol Shimshon - fixed mincha and maariv every 15 minutes at peak times otherwise every 1/2 hour
West Gate - Maariv every 20 minutes from 8-12
Satmar- Forest and 5th
Chestnut - Another good option for Shachris (until 9) if you're on the South side of the lake (and for shkiya mincha-maariv). 105 Chestnut Street Corner of Tiffany Lane

Kosher Grocery and Supermarkets
Jerusalem Glatt: 515 River Ave  Phone: (732) 370-6695
Kosher West: 136 Hillside Blvd
NPGS  - 152 James Street, 231 Main Street, and 2080 W County Line
Super Stop - 1161 River Ave and 416 Cedarbridge
Foodex -  407 Princeton Ave
Shloimys  - 1750 Clifton Ave
Gormet Glatt - 1700 Madison Ave
Kosher Villiage - 911 E County Line
Jerusalem Glatt  - 515 River Ave
Corner of 2nd - 132 2nd Street
Kollel Food Store - 403 Clifton
Aisle 9 -  951 Madison
Picnic - 357 Squankum RIP 6.20.2021
Evergreen
Gourmet Glatt South
BINGO
Feldman’s
Yankel’s
Seasons
Chick-Chock

Clothing

Men
His Place- 435 Clifton Ave
Emporio- 1700 Madison Ave
Marcy's- NEW LOCATION- 10 America Ave

Women
Girls on Glen- 120 Hillside Blvd
Gowns By Shevy(you can also sell and rent out your sister/mother of the bride gowns here)
Zinelli- 175 E Kennedy Blvd
Heads of Class- 916 River Ave

Periodicals

Newspapers
The Lakewood Shopper

Magazines
The Voice of Lakewood

Advertising only
The Clip It coupon card732-231-2692 - Coupon card that comes in back of the BP

BP weekly

Lakewood weekly

Masa Umatan (Has popular lists like freebay, Rental list http://masaumatan.com/e96_rentals.html, and playgroup list)

Residential Rental listings
http://masaumatan.com/MasaRentals.pdf
rental list http://masaumatan.com/e96_rentals.html

https://www.listingsinlakewood.com/

Keilim Mikva:

11th st mikva, -till 4pm
Hertzberg, 121 E 9th bet. Park and East end. -On left side of house after entrance to shul.
DB Electronics open 24hrs in the back ( Yt seasons only for costumers)
The Westview Shop
Center Of Town (Gourmet Glatt plaza)
Amazing Savings
Yesodei Court


Car Repairs

https://greaterlakewood.com/lakewood-mobile-mechanics-diagnose-and-fix-cars-at-owners-homes/

Betzalel Brezner 845-558-5547
Absolute cheapest prices, great work
@S209: I was very satisfied, used him twice
Tell him you saw it on dansdeals forums! :)

Reuven & Sons Auto Repair
40 Chestnut street
From transmissions to brakes.
Honest prices. Quick service
848-222-1104
New mechanic in town. 25 years experience, moved from Brooklyn.
Tell him you saw it on Dansdeals.

Brakes and Batteries
Moshe Levy will come to you.  848-210-3640
Lipas

Body Work
AllState Collision (Ovadia Levine) 732-730-0220

Plumbers

Zalman Charloff- Z R Plumbing. Six four six-946-2903 (recommended by S209 and by YitzyS)

HVAC
Izzy Zerken - AMZ Heating and Cooling (recommended by S209)

Flowers

White Ribbon Florist - Weddings, events, and stunning Shabbos flowers. @S209

Phone Repairs

Lg Exalt Repairs- 347-201-2501 (Call or Text)
Matis Geesis - 732 523-0033

Note that this list is far from exhaustive.


To Do - Parks & Recreational Ideas:

http://www.oceancountyparks.org/

Transportation
Rockshire Transit - Lakewood/Monsey - 845-352-8543
Midtown Bus - see this post by @Marks
See this post for other options to Manhattan

Auto Sales
Toms River Auto Sales
Lakewood Auto Sales
Priority
iCar
Ami Katz
MY Auto Sales
Auto Discounters
Car Shadchan
Lakewood Car Finder

Author Topic: Lakewood NJ Master Thread  (Read 4342129 times)

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #380 on: March 08, 2013, 06:23:24 AM »
Some prefer a honest broker that has the cash to back up the deal, always responds to emails within half an hour pays within a matter of hours with cash/ chase qp or a check-wtvr you ask, does not abuse your accounts (make twenty transfers in and out of your UR account) and is not a professional drei kop.
IME its not worth always haggling for a couple of bucks extra. Sometimes your doing a deal for thousands of bucks...you wanna deal and trust a yeshivishe drey/k kop?? Whats preventing him from forgetting to pay you...etc
Only shocking part of this post is "Location: Lakewood". Sounds like a glitch. Your rant is quite the opposite of what I've experienced in that formally Jewish city
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #381 on: March 08, 2013, 07:04:41 AM »

Call any of the 10 brokers that advertise on the bmg bulletin board (or in the voice etc) and not one of them will give you those rates.

Then you're not getting top dollar.
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #382 on: March 08, 2013, 08:18:18 AM »
Only shocking part of this post is "Location: Lakewood". Sounds like a glitch. Your rant is quite the opposite of what I've experienced in that formally Jewish city
Im not implying that all Lakewood brokers are bad. Just suggesting to use someone your comfortable with...

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #383 on: March 08, 2013, 09:56:03 AM »
Im not implying that all Lakewood brokers are bad. Just suggesting to use someone your comfortable with...
I was referring to the part about taking a few dollars less not to call every last person in Lakewood who calls himself a broker
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #384 on: March 08, 2013, 10:46:50 AM »
Confirmed: Carlos & Gabby is opening in Lakewood
there have been rumors abt it a couple of times before is this one real??? Its about time

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #385 on: March 08, 2013, 10:48:22 AM »
There is plenty of competition in this field in lkwd, so its hard for anybody to be paying too low.

Call any of the 10 brokers that advertise on the bmg bulletin board (or in the voice etc) and not one of them will give you those rates.
+1
I did and besides his united rates. he is right on amex 1.5 or chase ur 1.8 is very accurate.
-1 unless you are calling Slomow.
and even he is not giving 1.8
All prices came down in the past few weeks.
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #386 on: March 08, 2013, 10:52:51 AM »
+1-1 unless you are calling Slomow.
and even he is not giving 1.8
All prices came down in the past few weeks.
Sound like a broker :D ;)

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #387 on: March 08, 2013, 11:18:02 AM »
+1

Its just someone trying to bump up the prices.

Now every guy in lkwd is gonna call his broker and say " I saw a sign in bmg that says. . . ".
+1

There is no set amount. If a broker needs miles now, he will pay a little more, rather if he doesn't.

If you don't like the prices go somewhere else. I personally would go to someone I trust, when dealing with this.

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #388 on: March 08, 2013, 03:03:08 PM »
+1

There is no set amount. If a broker needs miles now, he will pay a little more, rather if he doesn't.

If you don't like the prices go somewhere else. I personally would go to someone I trust, when dealing with this.
True. People are free to shop around but no one is "stealing from you" if he doesn't give as much as the next guy.   ::) ::)
Maybe he sells to that next guy and the tiny difference is his whole profit!  ;) ;)
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #389 on: March 09, 2013, 05:09:29 PM »
+1

There is no set amount. If a broker needs miles now, he will pay a little more, rather if he doesn't.

If you don't like the prices go somewhere else. I personally would go to someone I trust, when dealing with this.
+1. i agree!  I rather go to someone i trust more than make a few bucks more. And when it comes down to it, its all of max 20$ at most times
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #390 on: March 10, 2013, 03:58:44 AM »
We should start a wiki of Lakewood Haters so we can stop helping them on the forums.  >:(
Since we are all parasites anyway we may as well live up to our good name.
I'll start:
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SuperFlyers post was deleted so I'm not sure the Din.
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #391 on: March 10, 2013, 04:06:19 AM »
SuperFlyers post was deleted so I'm not sure the Din.

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I was just PMed that he apologized before he deleted it. it was a joke?
pretty eloberate for a joke with pictures and all but whatever.  ::) ::)
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #392 on: March 10, 2013, 05:05:33 AM »
We should start a wiki of Lakewood Haters so we can stop helping them on the forums.  >:(

Youve just proven our point
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #393 on: March 10, 2013, 05:11:52 AM »
Youve just proven our point

+1

As I pointed out in the post you so helpfully linked to, I am not (yet) a "Lakewood hater", per se. Although it is people like you that are pushing me more and more in that direction.

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #394 on: March 10, 2013, 05:21:09 AM »
+1

As I pointed out in the post you so helpfully linked to, I am not (yet) a "Lakewood hater", per se. Although it is people like you that are pushing me more and more in that direction.

I thought your post over there was quite ridiculous. When you and everyone on DDF take advantage of elals price mistake and thousands of other ways to milk companies its ok. But when Lakewood people do it en masse it magically turns into abusing the system and a chilul hashem. 

Nice double standard you have there.
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #395 on: March 10, 2013, 05:38:13 AM »
I thought your post over there was quite ridiculous. When you and everyone on DDF take advantage of elals price mistake and thousands of other ways to milk companies its ok. But when Lakewood people do it en masse it magically turns into abusing the system and a chilul hashem. 

Nice double standard you have there.

Not really. When people take advantage of free bonuses (which are given away willingly, to entice customers) or airline price mistakes (which the DOT enforces, because the onus is on the airline to triple-check before publishing), that's fine. Those are "deals".

But when I hear stories of how people buy an air conditioner for the summer, and then return it when the summer is over (just before 90 days are up), jokingly referring to Walmart as their "gemach", that makes me cringe. And when Walmart gives me the third degree when trying to make a legitimate return, because "sorry for the hassle, sir, but people in this area have been abusing our return policy" (true story!), that downright pisses me off.

And let's not forgot how Amex offer matching got killed in no small part by the wise guys who took out full-page color ads offering $1600 for signing up for a Plat, while shamelessly ripping off Dan's instructions for getting matched to 100k, word-for-word, with no credit or compensation to him whatsoever...

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #396 on: March 10, 2013, 05:46:16 AM »
I was not aware of the Wal-Mart etc, but makes sense considering...
let's ignore the whole getting grants, gemach trafficking, etc.

I'm talking people being dishonest with me, and (trying) to rob me.

the proportion I've had of the latter surpassed by far any other group or people I've dealt with.

i unfortunatLY got to hear that so,many people have the same issues.....

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #397 on: March 10, 2013, 06:00:28 AM »
Not really. When people take advantage of free bonuses (which are given away willingly, to entice customers) or airline price mistakes (which the DOT enforces, because the onus is on the airline to triple-check before publishing), that's fine. Those are "deals".

But when I hear stories of how people buy an air conditioner for the summer, and then return it when the summer is over (just before 90 days are up), jokingly referring to Walmart as their "gemach", that makes me cringe. And when Walmart gives me the third degree when trying to make a legitimate return, because "sorry for the hassle, sir, but people in this area have been abusing our return policy" (true story!), that downright pisses me off.

And let's not forgot how Amex offer matching got killed in no small part by the wise guys who took out full-page color ads offering $1600 for signing up for a Plat, while shamelessly ripping off Dan's instructions for getting matched to 100k, word-for-word, with no credit or compensation to him whatsoever...

That's a far cry from what you wrote in the other thread...
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #398 on: March 10, 2013, 06:17:44 AM »
That's a far cry from what you wrote in the other thread...

Not really. Did you even follow the discussion in the other thread? It started with this:

+1
some people really abused this one.
I asked the woman at returns if I could get a GC instead of putting it back on my Amex because I closed that one already
and I got an earful about "People in this Area" returning GCs for Cash!

It was when I drily expressed "surprise" (not!) upon hearing that this story happened in Lakewood, that yeshivaman attacked me. So it's not such a far cry at all.

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #399 on: March 10, 2013, 06:50:13 AM »
Not really. Did you even follow the discussion in the other thread? It started with this:

It was when I drily expressed "surprise" (not!) upon hearing that this story happened in Lakewood, that yeshivaman attacked me. So it's not such a far cry at all.

I followed that thread well.

Taking advantage of a loophole like that to the point where the employees take notice, is not called a "deal". It's called "abusing the system".

If it's a loophole, it sounds like you meant to say that its something ethical. If so, why the double standard? But let's say you are referring to something unethical (in your opinion). I believe that if an act is unethical it doesn't matter whether you're the only one doing it or if everyone is doing it. You're abusing the system, causing a chillul hashem, and doing something repugnant. You are bashing "Lakewood" for something that people do all over. You can't hold society responsible, when it's a bunch of individuals making their own decisions. You believe that Lakewood people must think to themselves, "maybe I shouldn't do this because everyone is doing it?", but Brooklyn people don't need to worry about that, because in Brooklyn their acts are less noticeable?

In effect you are saying that pulling shtick is OK as long as you know that nobody else is doing it, which I think is quite dumb.
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