Nine individuals who have made important contributions to the city’s musical legacy will have their names added to plaques that will be placed on benches along the Asbury Park “Boardwalk of Fame,” according to a release from the Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce. They will join 21 previous honorees as the newest additions to the Asbury […]

Asbury Park resident Spence Cook will be seen on an upcoming wedding special filmed for The Learning Channel [TLC.] Cook [at right], who owns bloom boxx florist in Avon-by-the-Sea, provided flowers for a one-hour special, “Secret Wedding.” For the show, a bride-to-be thinks she is being filmed for her ability to put together a wedding […]

At 11 a.m. on Dec. 14, Mogo’s co-owners will open the doors of their new Cookman Avenue location and start serving Korean tacos for the first time over the winter months. Co-owners Sam Chung and Jay Devino [shown above, respectively] have operated their Korean taco pop-up stand on the boardwalk for the past few years. After […]

For at least the next 14 years, anyone who wants to construct a Christmas tree out of records the same way Glen Gray does and sell it for profit may face charges of patent infringement. Gray’s method of melting vinyl records into a flower pattern, threading LED Christmas lights through the center holes and fastening […]

A group of Asbury Park entrepreneurs have set their sights on a new horizon, this time along the Delaware River. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Smith, a partnership between Knockout design group and Watt Architects, are under contract to purchase ten buildings in Burlington City, an historic town situated about 20 miles north of Philadelphia ripe for […]

From Dec. 3 to 10 the Asbury Park police department made the following arrests: DEC 3 • A 22-year-old female from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in the 1100 block of Springwood Avenue. • A 22-year-old female from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in the 1100 block […]

A new, nearly 10,000 square foot building proposed for the corner of Main Street and Fourth Avenues received preliminary approvals from the city’s planning board Monday, and final approvals largely hinge on a parking waiver that will have to be decided by the Asbury Park City Council. The vote was 5-2. Planning Board members Mayor […]

A city man who suffered a nonfatal gunshot wound showed up at the Asbury Park Fire Department headquarters on Main Street Tuesday, according to a spokesman from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Around 1 a.m., a 20-year-old resident walked into the station, located on the northwest corner of Main Street and Asbury Avenue, and reported he […]

Property owners in Asbury Park who would like to contest the value of their recent home assessments can do so until Jan 15. This year, city residents experienced their first city-wide revaluation of properties in about a decade. All of the values of individual properties have changed because of the revaluation. In the past, revaluations […]

Organizers of the November “Summit to End Violence” in Asbury Park held their second meeting Saturday at St. Stephen AME Zion Church. The first Summit to End Violence brought law enforcement officials, politicians, business owners and other city stakeholders together in November to address the underlying causes of violence in Asbury Park: health, law enforcement, jobs, housing and […]