Asbury Park Dinner Table — an Asbury Park-based nonprofit founded last year in response to the devastation of COVID-19 on the City’s hospitality industry, as well as individuals and families struggling financially — has been awarded a grant of $108,000 through the Sustain & Serve grant program administered by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority […]

Master waterfront redeveloper iStar is donating approximately 6,000 square feet of land to Asbury Park for a public pocket park. Located at the intersection of Cookman Avenue and Heck Street, the new park will serve as a passive amenity for residents and visitors as they approach Asbury Park’s mile long oceanfront. The community park will include two […]

After listening to input from landlords and affordable housing advocates, the City Council is scheduled to introduce its own rent control ordinance at tonight’s council meeting.  “We’re doing this because this is a council policy in the end, and we decided let’s dig down and let’s get it done,” Councilwoman Eileen Chapman previously told the […]

To the Editor, Asbury Park Sun: [The following letter was sent to the Asbury Park Mayor and Council, Asbury Park Police Chief David Kelso and the Asbury Park Equity Committee.] The Bible states in Isaiah 1:17 that all people, clergy, congregants & society should “Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause […]

To the Editor, Asbury Park Sun: The Asbury Park Housing Coalition ( Coalition) has requested relief on behalf of residents whose rent they contend has reached levels where it  is displacing and causing these residents, a number of whom are long-time residents, to leave our community.   At a recent Asbury Park Council meeting many in the virtual audience argued, correctly I believe, that without relief […]