An Asbury Park man was arrested Wednesday for shoplifting after a witness saw him place eyeglasses in a potato chip bag, according to a news release from Ocean Township police. Imhotep Muhammad, 50, was allegedly spotted by an employee of the Eye Diagnostic and Surgery Center placing several pairs of eyeglasses in the chip bag in an […]

The Monmouth County DWI Task force will conduct a checkpoint to detect drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs on Friday, August 1, according to Brielle Police Chief Michael W. Palmer. The checkpoint will run from 11 p.m. Friday through 3 a.m. Saturday on Route 35. Task force members and officers from the Ocean Township Police Department […]

Master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial is currently exploring options on how to preserve Asbury Lanes, a retro bowling alley built in 1961 that has been operating as a music venue for the past ten years. IStar has submitted plans to the city to develop a 110-room boutique hotel in the long-vacant Salvation Army building on […]

Manhattan-based design firm Stonehill & Taylor unveiled well-received plans for the restoration of the Salvation Army building to the city’s Technical Review Committee Tuesday. Master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial brought Stonehill & Taylor in to transform the long-vacant building into an 110-room boutique style hotel, located on the block bound by Kingsley, Fourth and Fifth […]

For the first Wednesday in nearly seven years, downtown Cookman Avenue mainstay Old Man Rafferty’s will not open for service. Restaurant owner Mark Jakuboski had a contract in place for owners of the Shore House Bar and Grill in Point Pleasant to purchase the Asbury Park location at the corner of Emory Street and Cookman Avenue in […]

City resident and West Side activist Daniel Harris III [at right] has made a decision not to run in the upcoming City Council election. Harris ran with the “A-Team” ticket in the May 2013 election and was expected to run with a similar ticket this November. All five council seats are up for grabs in […]

State Monitor Carole Morris has rejected the Asbury Park Board of Education’s majority decision to appoint Gregory Allen as the interim superintendent of schools. It is the second time Morris has rejected the board’s decision to appoint Allen. As the appointed state monitor for the district, Morris has the final call on all district staffing […]

City officials are in the midst of reviewing sections of agreements drawn up with waterfront redevelopers that outline developers’ responsibilities to hire local workers and purchase local building products. The agreements with master waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners [majority owned by iStar Financial] and boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette contain language that the developers make efforts to […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, How did we get here, Asbury Park, 2014? By here we mean a city that is thriving and bustling like a coastal town should, with people buying everything from ice cream cones to luxury condos. And by here we also mean a vocal, critical mass of people who actually care enough […]

Creative works by three Asbury Park artists will be shown alongside pieces from nine other artists in the upcoming boardwalk exhibit “Promised Land.” Promised Land is an exhibition of contemporary artworks by twelve emerging east coast-based visual artists that explores a broad range of current national issues as inspired by the past and present history […]