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 […]

An Asbury Park juvenile showed up to Asbury Park Middle School Friday with a stab wound he allegedly received the day before while out on a city street, police said. The victim, a 15-year-old male, told the school nurse on Friday that he had been stabbed with a kitchen knife once in the lower portion […]

A 29-year old city man allegedly stabbed another man outside of the Cascada Nighclub on Main Street early Monday morning, according to police. Manuel Tirado-Silva, Asbury Park, was allegedly involved in an altercation inside the club with a 29-year-old Hispanic male from Red Bank, said Asbury Park police Capt. Marshawn Love. Tirado-Silva was removed from […]

A new chapter was added to Asbury Park’s history books Sunday, March 9, as the Inaugural St. Patrick’s Day Parade made its way from Convention Hall through downtown Cookman Avenue. About 3000 people showed up to watch the parade, the majority of which were concentrated along downtown Cookman Avenue. “We really had no doubt in our […]

While city and county officials plan a meeting to discuss a possible joint initiative to preserve an open tract of land on the North Beach of Asbury Park, a new avenue of funding may become available which could allow the city to acquire the land itself. In the spring, $100 million in Green Acres grant funds […]

The chairman of the Asbury Park Democratic Organization, Guiseppe “Joe” Grillo, 37, has announced his candidacy for the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders. Freeholder Director Lillian G. Burry and Freeholder Deputy Director Gary J. Rich, Sr., are the Republican incumbents. The five-member Freeholder board runs the county government. Grillo will seek the county Democratic organization’s backing at […]