An Austrio-Hungarian themed beer garden is yet another step closer to being realized in Asbury Park. Attorney Andrew Karas, Paramus, guided several members of the team proposing the two-story beer garden at 527 Lake Ave. through descriptions of the look, lighting, landscaping, type of food to be served, music and overall atmosphere of the restaurant […]

Asbury Park resident Malik A. Briggs, 25, was arrested Friday and charged with shooting a 28-year-old Neptune man outside of 1514 Monroe Ave. in Neptune Township in September, according to a prepared release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office [MCPO]. Neptune Township Police received a call man on Sept. 2, reporting a man had been shot […]

A city man was who had a previous conviction preventing him from possessing any weapons was convicted Wednesday on possession charges, according to a prepared release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. After a two-week long trial, a Monmouth County jury found Radavine Allah, also known as Robert Brown, 35, of Monroe Avenue, guilty of […]

Gay marriage will now be legal for good in the state of New Jersey. Political news website politickernj.com reports the Governor Chris Christie’s administration has dropped its appeal of Judge Mary C. Jacobson’s September ruling, which granted same-sex partners the right to a civil marriage  in New Jersey beginning Monday. “In light of the N.J. […]

Among the first to do so in New Jersey, three same sex couples were married just after midnight Monday morning on the steps of the Paramount Theater on the Asbury Park boardwalk. The couples were Asbury Councilwoman Amy Quinn and Heather Jensen and Steven Brunner and Daniel Baum, as well as Aberdeen couple Karen Nicholson-McFadden […]

A Newark Superior Court Judge has waived the state’s 72-hour waiting period for an Asbury Park same-sex couple so they can be married on the boardwalk after midnight on Oct. 21, the official date a Mercer County Superior Court judge ruled same-sex couples in the state of New Jersey shall be permitted to enter in […]

Councilwoman Amy Quinn [above, at left] and spouse Heather Jensen [center] are set to be remarried one minute after midnight on the Asbury Park boardwalk Monday, according to a news release from New Jersey United for Marriage. Quinn and Jensen will be one of the first three same-sex couples to exchange vows in New Jersey. […]

Three Asbury Park same-sex couples had filed marriage license applications as of 10 a.m. Friday, and all of them will be married on Monday as the state Supreme Court has denied the governor’s request for a stay to a Mercer County Superior Court judge’s ruling. Asbury Park is one of few municipalities in the state to […]

Asbury Park Deputy City Clerk Kiki Tomek will begin to accept applications for marriage licenses from same-sex couples Friday, city officials confirmed. “The City of Asbury Park intends to follow the Order entered on September 27, 2013 by the Honorable Mary C. Jacobson, A.J.S.C., in the case known as “Garden State Equality, et als vs. Paula Dow, […]

Little Free Libraries have quickly become a worldwide trend, and one city resident is putting feelers out to see if the movement has traction in Asbury Park. The mission of the Little Free Library organization is to promote literacy and community building through the placement of small, birdhouse-like structures that contain books. Books in the collection can […]