Dances are held at the clubhouse. You get to see all your friends every day in the summer. For many adults, Erskine holds a four-season allure. I hung out at the lake as a teenager with Richie Ranft. A lot of us came from Queens or Brooklyn.
Quality of life is what people came up here for.
I am so privileged to be able to work in this environment, as opposed to commuting into the city. Arthur and Helen Hirtler moved full-time into what had been a family summer retreat on a wooded hillside above Lake Erskine after he retired as the school business administrator in Little Ferry. We don't care for the heat and we like the change in the seasons, and a little snow doesn't bother us. We weren't looking for another place. Hirtler still remembers the miles upon miles of unbroken forest when he and a friend rode their bicycles to Ringwood from Belleville as teenagers.