From July 29 to Aug. 5, the Asbury Park Police Department made the following arrests: JULY 29 • A 46-year-old female from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia in the 1000 block of Mattison Avenue. • A 50-year-old male from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in the 1500 […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the […]

Representatives from the New Jersey Department of Transportation [DOT] and NJ Transit officials met with city officials Friday to discuss a plan that would permanently close access between Main Street and Memorial Drive at the intersection of Summerfield Avenue. The closure dovetails with a county project that will reconfigure the traffic pattern of Memorial Drive […]

On Thursday, July 24 at 3:45 p.m., Asbury Park’s Cable Television Advisory Committee [APTV] broadcast to home television sets for the first time in the station’s history. The local station has been uploading recorded City Council meetings and other content to the internet since January of 2014, and now Asbury Park area residents can view the […]

An exterior wall that runs along the Ocean Avenue side of Asbury Park’s famed concert venue The Stone Pony has a new look. An 8-foot chain link fence has been replaced by an 11-foot masonry wall on the eastern perimeter. The white wall, which extends slightly down the southern side along the perimeter of the […]

An open house will be held at the historic Stephen Crane House in Asbury Park on Sunday, August 10, in an effort to raise public awareness and increase donations for a major fundraising campaign to purchase and restore the location, according to a news release from the Asbury Park Historical Society. The house, located at 508 […]

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 […]