Owners of Taka Restaurant on Mattison Avenue have signed a 5-year lease on the old Synaxis space on Cookman Avenue and have tentative plans to move the restaurant into the new space next year, according to Taka co-owner William Kessler. In May, when Kessler and his business partners,  Taka Hirai and David Martocci, applied to transfer the [...]

The city’s auditor has been contracted to conduct an audit of the Asbury Park Enterprise Zone Development Corporation, otherwise known as the UEZ. Members of the Asbury Park City Council voted to authorize David Kaplan’s firm DAK CPA to conduct an audit of the UEZ program from June 30, 2008 up to the present. Kaplan’s [...]

The district state monitor has reversed the Board of Education’s selection of Gregory Allen as the Asbury Park district superintendent of schools. State Monitor Carole Morris made her decision public at the regular Board of Education meeting held Wednesday. Allen had been tentatively appointed in a 6-3 vote at the October 16 special meeting. Reasons for [...]

Come the end of November, a number of the people and locations in and around Asbury Park will be featured in the newest Local Quarterly magazine [at right]. The contemporary magazine sends reporters out to gather stories from a different American city for every issue. The Asbury Park issue will be their third. Previous cities include [...]

A Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign to bring a full-service organic grocery store to Asbury Park’s Main Street has been successful. Cara Pescatore and Alex Mazzucca [above at the site], who own the From Seed to Sprout vegan cafe in Avon, set a fundraising goal of $25,000. That was reached by the Oct. 30 deadline and came in [...]

At 7:30 a.m. Friday, Asbury Park will see the doors of Dino’s on Main Marketplace open for the first time. The market will offer mostly Italian items like fresh homemade ravioli, mozzarella, gravies, brick oven pizzas and preserves—but shop owner Dino LaSasso [shown above] loves food so much, he doesn’t want to be limited to only [...]

From Oct 30 to Nov 12 the Asbury Park Police Department made the following arrests: OCT 30 • A 40-year-old female from Ocean Grove was arrested and charged with defiant trespassing. • A 23-year-old female from Ocean Grove was arrested and charged with possession of a syringe in the 200 block of First Avenue. • [...]

Members of the Asbury Park chapter of the Stop the Violence Action Committee paid their respects to parents who had lost children to violence in the city at a memorial banquet Saturday night. The committee announced an Asbury Park chapter during a rally held in September. Stop the Violence has chapters throughout the state, including Camden and [...]

Police have deemed an attempted child abduction reported Saturday to be unfounded. Due to subsequent interviews in coordination with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, the incident was proved to be “unfounded due to a miscommunication,” according to Captain Michael Schneider of the Allenhurst Police Department. The incident reportedly occurred at approximately 2:25 p.m. Saturday. A 10-year-old boy [...]

Community stakeholders met at St. Stephen AME Zion Church Saturday morning to discuss the issue of violence in the city at a “Summit to End the Violence.” The summit, organized by St. Stephen’s Pastor Derinzer Johnson and Retired Asbury Park Police Lt. George Corbin, brought law enforcement officials, politicians, business owners and other city stakeholders [...]