On Saturday, March 22, members of the Rebuild by Design team and Asbury Park community leaders will lead a participatory parade from the west side of the city to the east side, according to a news release from event organizers. During the “Rebuild One City” parade, new strategies to protect Asbury Park from future storms […]

A fire broke out on the 1000 block of Sewall Avenue in Asbury Park Wednesday evening. Asbury Park firefighters responded to the blaze shortly after 9:30 p.m. When they arrived on the scene, a vacant house on the block was heavily engulfed in flames, said Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy. Firefighters from Asbury Park, […]

A fire broke out in a storage shed at the site of the Kingsley Arms apartment complex Wednesday, according to an Asbury Park fire official. Firefighters responded to the two-alarm blaze shortly after 3 p.m., Asbury Park Fire Department spokesperson Garrett Giberson said. When they arrived on the scene they found heavy fire conditions coming from […]

In order to get a better picture of the city’s housing and crime issues, members of the Asbury Park Community Action Network [AP CAN] and city officials have agreed to go on a bus tour of the city streets together. The goal is to give network leaders and city officials a clearer picture of what […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, The recent closure of the Asbury Park  Boys & Girls Club pool is another slap in the face to residents of the West Side of the city and those who actually used the facility. In a recent Sun article about the closing, Executive Director Douglas Eagles stated, “Our current club […]

The Asbury Park Technical Review Committee [TRC] is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at 6 p.m. to discuss plans for a new development of town homes in the city. Asbury Partners, LLC, is the applicant. Waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial  — the majority owner of Asbury Partners — signed an agreement in November with national homebuilder K. […]

Two incidents of gunfire took place Tuesday, one in Asbury Park and one in Neptune Township, according to police. A residence in the 600 block of Pine Street in Asbury Park was struck once by gunfire, according to Charles Webster, a spokesman for the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Webster could not say what time the […]

Students at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Asbury Park got a demonstration from Monmouth County Sheriff’s Officer Kurt Kroeper and his narcotics detection dog Evan Tuesday. The demonstration educated students and faculty of the school on the tasks the K-9 team is responsible for. The students were split into two separate groups, an […]

Developers of a live action theater currently under renovation on Cookman Avenue have requested the city’s permission to add a marquee sign to the front facade [shown above]. Sackman Enterprises attorney Andrew Karas for Cookman Community Development Urban Renewal, LLC, owned by downtown developer Sackman Enterprises, made a presentation to the city’s planning board Monday evening […]

From March 5 to 10 the Asbury Park Police Department made the following arrests: MARCH 5 • A 29-year-old male from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with resisting arrest at the intersection of Comstock Street and Prospect Avenue. • A 32-year-old male from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with possession of controlled dangerous […]