Flatbusher
actually lakewood has become A MORE FRUMMER TOWN in the past 30 years. over the last 3 decades & mostly the last decade of the 3, every year the modern people of the town have been leaving-either the elder were Niftar or the Modern Orthdox families children have all Married off their children & their children are not staying in Lakewood to raise a modern Family. The lakewood day school-which was co-ed & the first jewish school in Lakewood & Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler went there-shut down already about 10 years ago.
Yidden in lakewood today are 99.5% percent torah frum families, there is
maybe a drop of modern familes still living in lakewood. all the reform or conservative shuls in Lakewood have shut down or joined another shul in a different town near lakewood
BOTTOM LINE:Lakewood is more frum today then it used to be. Not vice versa. even if tons of NYers have moved to lakewood but their all frum or even Chasidish families. (soon the town might become chasidish) i remember before there were any chasidish shuls in Lakewood today there are over 30 that are chasidish of all diferent kinds.