Come Memorial Day weekend, Dino’s market on Main Street will offer outside table service to customers in an Italian Bistro setting. The city recently granted approval to co-owners Dino LaSasso and Steven Cancellieri [shown above, respectively] for an outside seating area along Main Street, LaSasso said. LaSasso and Cancellieri brought on Raymond Tutela, 51, former […]

Visitors to Asbury Park who don’t travel in by train will soon find it easier to navigate the city as the Chamber of Commerce adds additional way-finding signage in the downtown business district and along the waterfront. The chamber got the city’s OK to place the same map signage that give guidance to passengers who […]

Councilman John B. Moor and Councilwoman Amy Quinn have announced their intent to run for re-election to the Asbury Park City Council. They will seek to add candidates to form a slate, “Asbury Together,” as the election draws closer. In a prepared release, the incumbents cited urging from fellow citizens for them to continue their […]

Interfaith Neighbors, Inc. and New Jersey Natural Gas [NJNG] announced the completion of two new homes on the West Side of Asbury Park as part of their long-standing collaboration to provide affordable housing opportunities to deserving families and individuals in Monmouth County, according to a news release from NJNG. The two new energy-efficient homes are located on the first block […]

From May 7 to May 13 the Asbury Park Police Department made the following arrests: MAY 7 • A 24-year-old male from Neptune was arrested and charged with murder, criminal attempt and unlawful firearms possession in the 60 block of Taylor Avenue. • An 80-year-old male from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with promoting gambling in […]

Ownership of the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel will pay out $45,000 for allegedly hiking up rates for rooms by over 100 percent in the days after Hurricane Sandy, including an almost $6,000 payout to hotel customers, according to a news release from the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs. The hotel, located at 1401 Ocean Parkway, will pay […]

Downtown developer Sackman Enterprises has closed on the purchase of the historic Kinmouth building at a purchase price of $2.47 million, according to city records. Sackman will move forward with plans to rehabilitate the Savoy Theatre, a 100-year-old former Vaudeville venue that has been vacant for decades located inside the building, and add a residential component of […]

A countywide gun buyback program is scheduled to take place at locations in Asbury Park and Rumson Friday and Saturday, according to a news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Monmouth County residents can anonymously surrender weapons Friday May 16, and Saturday, May 17, at the Asbury Park Satellite Office of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s […]

Nineteen professional artists from The Fine Art Collective will converge at The Collective Art Tank in Asbury Park on Saturday, June 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the third-annual Day of Demos event, according to a company news release. The full-day art extravaganza, previously a sold-out success, will offer attendees complimentary art product demonstrations from […]

Police are investigating a Sunday night incident of shots fired in Asbury Park that may be connected with a man who later checked himself into a local hospital with a gunshot wound. A call of shots fired on the first block of DeWitt Avenue was received at approximately 9:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Charles Webster, […]