Organizers of Asbury Park’s downtown artisan market Asbury Fresh will host a winter “pop-up”market on Small Business Saturday. The market will run from 12-6 p.m. at 639 Cookman Ave., which once housed the Russo Music store and local record shop Holdfast. Live music and entertainment will take place throughout the day, according to a news release […]

Asbury Park has scored next-to-last among the eight cities surveyed in New Jersey that measures the LGBT “friendliness” of cities across the nation, according to a report released by the Human Rights Campaign [HRC]. Nearby Ocean Grove ranked second, along with New Brunswick. The HRC’s Municipal Equality Index scrutinizes the laws, policies, and services of […]

A Millburn-based clothing designer has plans to open a new location in Asbury Park. Nita Novy, owner of “Nita Ideas” has signed a lease with building owner Patrick Fasano to occupy the old “Bizzare Bazaar” space located at the corner of Cookman and Mattison avenues [shown above], she confirmed with the Sun. Novy would not comment […]

[Update: The time of the tree lighting and details of photo opportunities with Santa Claus have changed since this article was first published. This version reflects those changes.] Get ready to kick off the holiday season in Convention Hall on Saturday, Nov. 30. Boardwalk representatives have announced festivities for the annual tree lighting will begin at […]

Local restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach was one of four New Jersey women recognized Thursday for her career during the grand opening celebration of the Tommy Hilfiger store at Garden State Plaza in Paramus, according to a release from the Tommy Hilfiger Group. “The event recognized upstanding women in New Jersey from four totally different fields, and […]

Waterfront redeveloper iStar Residential has signed an agreement with K. Hovnanian Homes to build townhouses on the western edge of the Asbury Park waterfront redevelopment zone on Grand Avenue. The project will be located at the intersection of Grand and Monroe avenues, according to a news release issued by iStar this morning. K. Hovnanian Homes […]

A grandmother, mother and son who live in Asbury Park were charged with animal cruelty after a 7-month-old pit bull was dropped off at the Shrewsbury Animal Hospital Wednesday evening with signs of burns and other injuries, according to Victor “Buddy” Amato, chief of police for the Monmouth County SPCA. A family member took the dog, called […]

Owners of Taka Restaurant on Mattison Avenue have signed a 5-year lease on the old Synaxis space on Cookman Avenue and have tentative plans to move the restaurant into the new space next year, according to Taka co-owner William Kessler. In May, when Kessler and his business partners,  Taka Hirai and David Martocci, applied to transfer the […]

The city’s auditor has been contracted to conduct an audit of the Asbury Park Enterprise Zone Development Corporation, otherwise known as the UEZ. Members of the Asbury Park City Council voted to authorize David Kaplan’s firm DAK CPA to conduct an audit of the UEZ program from June 30, 2008 up to the present. Kaplan’s […]

Come the end of November, a number of the people and locations in and around Asbury Park will be featured in the newest Local Quarterly magazine [at right]. The contemporary magazine sends reporters out to gather stories from a different American city for every issue. The Asbury Park issue will be their third. Previous cities include […]