Talk:Deal, New Jersey

Syrian population

You've got to be kidding me if you think that just 16.4% of Deal's residence are Syrian. The number exceeds that more than double or even triple!!!David Betesh 17:58, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

I've partaken of the fine kosher dining in Deal, and agree that the number seems low. The U.S. Census 2000 data for Deal shows 16.8%, but that is not appreciably higher than the 16.4% from the source provided in the article. Please remember that we can't use best guesses and that everything must be backed up with appropriate sources. Alansohn 18:15, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

During the summer months, the number balloons to much more than 16.4%, as many Syrians who live in Flatbush for most of the year move to their houses in Deal. I wouldn't know how to find that kind of statistic, though. --DLand^TALK 23:03, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

I've been to Deal in the summer and I don't doubt that the Syrian population balloons at that time of year. But census data is based on year-round residents. Alansohn 23:59, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Right, of course. I was just explaining why David perceives the number as larger than it is. --DLand^TALK 02:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I go to Deal many times in the summer and I can say that the Syrian population balloons probably to way over 50% in the summer, it's just that the 16.4% are the only ones that live there year round, as it is almost entirely a summer community. Mac Domhnaill 21:34, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Schools

There is no chance in hell residents of Deal are sedning their children to school in Asbury Park. Can we get the names of some private [probably Jewish] schools students attend after 8th grade?

Almost all of the Jewish residents of Deal are only there in the summers (and most of those that live there year round are retired), the majority of residents live in Brooklyn during the year. There are no Jewish Schools in the area that I know of. 24.187.51.220 21:07, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

There is a Deal Yeshivah on Wall Street in West Long Branch. There is also an Ilan High School for girls and the well-known yeshivah Hillel.

12:23, 27 july 2007

Asbury Park High School is the public school that residents of Deal attend if they want to attend public high school. I lived in Deal from 1955-1971 and attended and graduated from Asbury Park H.S. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.17.56.46 (talk) 05:44, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

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Maps shows Deal as being in the Atlantic Ocean

As of the time I'm typing this, there's something wrong with the technology that places the red dot for this New Jersey town of Deal on the map that is the 3rd map on the right side (the 1st map being the location of Deal within Monmouth County with an inset of Monmouth County within New Jersey, and the 2nd map being the Census Bureau map). On this third map, it doesn't matter whether you click to show the red dot within the USA, or within New Jersey, or within Monmouth County. In all three cases, the red dot for Deal is out in the Atlantic Ocean. If you click "Show map of New Jersey", the problem is at its worst as Deal is so far out out in the Atlantic that it's well outside the map's right edge. I thought maybe this could be a typo in the numeric expression of longitude and latitude, and that bad data there might be skewing the software that calculates the dot-placement. But I put those coordinates into Google Maps and I get a location in Deal New Jersey that is an intersection just a few blocks west of the Atlantic Coast. So that's not the explanation. Whatever the explanation is, please fix this. I checked the same maps in Wikipedia's article on Cape May just now, and under all three clicks (USA, New Jersey, the County) its red dot is on the nose (positively Rudolphine in its precision), so this problem is unique to Deal, New Jersey. I've never noticed it in any other Wikipedia article.

Note: At the risk of having the comment above not taken seriously, I should note that there IS a town in New Jersey that's under the Atlantic, and this is the eastern suburb of Deal named New Deal, founded by FDR, and later sunk by Ronald Reagan. But the comment about the red dot is serious and I hope you can fix it.2600:1700:6759:B000:E894:BFCC:705D:880 (talk) 19:30, 4 September 2024 (UTC)Christopher Lawrence Simpson

Wikipedia's use of red-dot technology in general

I think that the red-dot maps in Wikipedia in general would be more useful to readers if the red dot were actually part of the image so that the image could be copied-and-pasted without taking a screen-shot. To date, if you open the image of the map in a separate tab or window, you get the map but no red dot. This is true whether you click only to the map's Wikipedia page or if you click further and get the map alone with an URL ending in its file-name, which ends with an extension indicating it's an image-type of file (".jpg", ".svg", ".webp", or other). Of course if you make the red dot part of the map, you must have three maps for every Wikipedia article on municipalities that employ the red dot, as opposed to one map for every county and state (plus one map for the USA). I don't know what your storage-space is like, so maybe it's not feasible or budgetable to have the red-dot versions saved for every Wikipedia article on a U.S. municipality. However, against that argument is the fact that technology is creating, on-the-fly, the image that appears in the article, retrieving the single map for the state or county or nation and then, on-the-fly, placing the red dot on that map. If that's possible for the image in the article it should also be possible for the larger image that one reaches by clicking. There would have to be a separate HTML file for every municipality, but there would NOT have to be a separate ".svg" (or other) image-file for every municipality, because the page for the full-sized image could be created on-the-fly by retrieving the ONE map of the State, County, or Nation, and, on-the-fly, placing the dot upon it. With that technology the file-storage consumption would not be magnified as it would be if one image-file existed with the red dot for every municipality. There would be some additional storage-space consumed because each municipality with the red-dot feature would link to the municipality's own map (which would be the SINGLE map of the State or County with the red-dot placed on-the-fly), but HTML is just text, not much data compared to any image.2600:1700:6759:B000:E894:BFCC:705D:880 (talk) 19:30, 4 September 2024 (UTC)Christopher Lawrence Simpson