For years, amusements and Asbury Park were synonymous. The ferris wheel at Palace Amusements, the carousel at the Casino. Those types of cultural fixtures are no longer a permanent presence in the city. But a few times a year in the spring and summer, a traveling carnival makes its way into town. Ocean Grove resident […]

Waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners is set to demolish four buildings over the next one to three weeks. Two of the buildings are located in the same block as the area known as the stump yard on Cookman Avenue. Asbury Partners began to level the stump yard yesterday. The two buildings on Cookman are a former […]

The board of education [BOE] is finalizing plans for administrative offices to move from downtown Asbury Park to the Barack H. Obama building on Bangs Avenue [pictured above]. The district’s administrative staff has occupied a floor of The Press Building at 603 Mattison Ave. [right] for several years, paying $189,327 annually, or about $15,000 per […]

A new café is on its way to the west side — and it’s not just any eatery. Kula Café will function as a training ground for the city’s youth and a healthy eating hub in the Springwood Center [above]. The restaurant will train area young adults who want to work in the restaurant industry, […]

Asbury Park is set to receive a $50,000 grant for boardwalk reconstruction, according to a state Department of Transportation [NJDOT] press release. The grant is one of 25 bring administered by the NJDOT through the Local Aid Infrastructure Fund program, according to the release. Other municipalities are receiving grants to help with street repairs, drainage […]

Randy Thompson is one of five citizens whose names will appear on the general election ballot this November for a charter study commission. A charter study commission [CSC] would scrutinize the city’s current form of government and possibly recommend changes. The CSC is subject to two votes in the November general election. First, voters can […]

After receiving some complaints, the city is seeing to the eviction of three residents of the Delmonte boarding house at 302 First Ave. At the Aug. 1 council meeting, residents living near the Delmonte complained of some residents causing public disturbance in the nearby Library Square Park, including excessive noise and public nudity. City manager […]

The city’s public arts committee is back in action with a new meeting schedule after an unofficial one-year hiatus. The seven-member committee oversees the approval process for public art — mostly murals — in the city, ensuring that the city’s public arts ordinance is followed. “Asbury park is an art and cultural destination and you […]

Workers yesterday began chopping the tops off of the wood pilings in the Cookman Avenue lot known by locals as the stump yard. The property, which is owned by master redeveloper Asbury Partners, is a vacant lot full of wooden pilings whose tops are visible above the ground. Some of the stumps are adorned with […]

Installation of about 20 bike racks in the downtown area began today on Cookman Avenue. About 10 racks were installed today and the rest should be in place by the end of the week. Each rack installed today has a sign advising cyclists to wait until tomorrow, Sept. 12, to use them so the concrete […]