Whiting is an unincorporated community located on the west side of Manchester Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.

Whiting was once a station stop on the southern branch of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, a line known for the Blue Comet express.

Harry L. Neal leased the property to Eliha J. Granger of the Philadelphia office of the Hydraulic Press Brick Company (incorporated in 1866 in St. Louis, first president steps down in 1905 to travel) for $.10 per cubic yard of clay with a minimum rent of $250 a month.

Under the stipulation, he built an operation that will produce 5,000 'stiff mud’ bricks a day to be delivered to a siding on the Tuckerton Railroad where they would have their own box car.

The first fire engine was kept in the garage at Allegrinia's Bar (a popular Italian restaurant that was open from the 30s-70s), located at the end of Lakewood Avenue.

A plan of mobster Joseph Parisi (of Murder Inc. through Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and later by Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia, and later the Gambino Mafia and the garbage industry in NYC), and his brother Frank (Roosevelt City Land Development Company), during a time of many failed or outright land development schemes during the 1920s, planned to build a city to rival that of his home in NYC.

On maps in the Ocean County Clerk office, you can find his planned community built on the old General John Lacey lot.

On the map, it shows where the rich neighborhood, the poor, the churches, city hall, factories, and train stations were to be built.

He sold about eight concrete houses and 20 acres (8.1 ha) to a married couple of masseuses from his Brooklyn neighborhood, which Doctor's Pond is named after.

At Doctor's Pond, you can see the bridge and foundation of the pump house that served water to the Jersey Pines Poultry Farm and Nature's Rest nudist colony.

In the field at the dirt section of Newark Ave. you can still find the foundation of the chicken coop, horse stable, house, water tower (windmill that sat on top is behind Sloan's Market now), outhouses, arboretum, and hotel.

Joe Portash a Democrat member of Mayor Hague's machine in Jersey City moved south and became a Republican Ocean County Freeholder.

[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] After working with Schmertz and Leisure Technology, Portash joined forces with Miroslav “Michael” Kokes, who built the company's first active adult community, Crestwood Village in Whiting, starting in 1964.