The city is looking to hire a financial consultant to assist with the acquisition of a lot on the corner of Bangs Avenue and Bond Street, where a public parking garage would be constructed. The city has been in negotiations to purchase the lot since June. It’s currently owned by Magyar Bank because its former […]

Fifty-seven parking pay stations were damaged in Hurricane Sandy, city manager Terence Reidy said at the Dec. 5 council meeting. The stations, which motorists use to pay hourly for parking downtown and at the waterfront, are covered in part under the city’s broiler and machinery insurance, Reidy said. The 57 stations are also being included in […]

Restoration of the Savoy Theatre is one step closer to completion thanks to an ordinance passed by the city council on Nov. 19. The ordinance has two purposes — to increase the allowed height at the building’s site and to decrease the parking requirement for studio apartments. The Savoy is located inside the Kinmonth Building […]

When Asbury Park city manager announced several weeks ago that downtown parking would be free in three-hour increments until Jan. 1, many residents wondered how the new parking rules would be enforced. At last night’s council meeting, the governing body discussed enforcement and  voted to approve a resolution memorializing the temporary parking rules. City officials […]

All metered parking spots in town have been changed to free three-hour parking until January, city manager Terence Reidy said today. Metered spots line the beach front and the downtown area, and meters were first installed to provide a combination of revenue generation and parking management, Reidy said. The city is opting for three-hour parking […]

To help guide the city in handling parking, city manager Terence Reidy has developed a parking master plan. At the Sept. 19 city council meeting, Reidy and parking consultant Tom Calu unveiled the plan to the council and the public. “It’s time to take a look at our over-arching plan for parking in the city […]

Downtown Asbury developer Carter Sackman is hoping to further defer construction of a parking garage he and the city planned to build jointly. The city and the developer reached an agreement in 2007 to build the 404-spot garage, which would include more than 100 spots for use by Sackman’s residential tenants, as well as residential […]

Motorists in the city can now pay for parking through their cell phones for an additional 35 cents per transaction thanks to the city’s mobile payment program. Asbury Park is the first municipality to use mPay2Park, a year-old company based in Wallingford, Conn., said mPay2Park systems manager Lori Beaudet. After several months of beta testing […]

Listed on Wednesday’s closed session council meeting agenda was an item under land acquisition in connection with a parking deck. The deck in question would have been built on a piece of land located at the intersection of Bond Street and Bangs Avenue, according to city manager Terence Reidy [and shown in photo above]. Construction there […]

The city council may amend the parking ordinance to extend two-hour parking on Main Street. Two-hour parking rules are in effect from the Neptune border to Fifth Avenue. The city’s advisory parking committee is currently looking at extending the restrictions north of Fifth Avenue to Deal Lake Drive, effectively creating border-to-border two-hour parking. The purpose […]