Seven city council candidates have filed their nominating petitions by today’s 4 pm deadline, according to City Clerk Melody Hartsgrove.  Three council seats are up for grabs. Council elections in Asbury Park are non-partisan, with candidates running in one column without party affiliation. The council seats have four year terms. The election is Nov. 3. […]

A new 48 unit townhouse development in the waterfront redevelopment zone has been approved by the Planning Board. The project, to be built by master waterfront redeveloper iStar, is located on two acres at the western end of the triangular tract bounded by Cookman Avenue, Heck Street and Asbury Avenue. The Planning Board approved the […]

An Asbury Park police officer and a former city Special Law Enforcement Officer, Class 2 (SLEO-2) entered guilty pleas today admitting they vandalized vehicles belonging to a citizen who filed an internal affairs complaint against them, announced Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni. Asbury Park Police Officer Stephen Martinsen, 31, and former SLEO-2 Thomas Dowling, […]

Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni has announced the arrest of a suspect in connection with the shooting of a four year old girl in Asbury Park on Tuesday. Sciaire N. Jackson, 27, of Lakewood, has been arrested and charged with first degree Attempted Murder, second degree Aggravated Assault, second degree Possession of a Weapon For […]

Monmouth County law enforcement officials are asking for the public’s assistance to bring a shooter, responsible for causing serious injuries to a 4-year-old, to justice. The shooting took place in Asbury Park on August 18, 2020, announced Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni. At approximately 1:35 p.m. on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, a 4-year-old child […]

Long-time community activists Felicia Simmons and Kerry Margaret Butch have announced their candidacy for two of the three city council seats up for election in November. Simmons is also a former member of the Asbury Park Board of Education. The council seats are currently held by incumbents Amy Quinn, Eileen Chapman and Yvonne Clayton, who […]

Internationally acclaimed Chef David Burke brings his culinary mastery to Asbury Park with Asbury Kitchen by David Burke, a pop-up restaurant at the former site of Modine on Mattison Avenue. A mid-August opening is scheduled.  The restaurant will have outdoor dining seven nights a week for dinner from 4 – 10 p.m., also included will be a happy hour […]

Community activists in Asbury Park have embarked on a new project: Establishing volunteer Community Public Safety Units.  The goal is to “respond to nonviolent community problems/issues in the moment they occur and for us to come to de-escalate issues before they become bigger problems,” according to Derek Minno-Bloom, one of the organizers of the effort.  Those […]

Asbury Park Deputy Mayor Amy Quinn (above), Councilwoman Yvonne Clayton, and Councilwoman Eileen Chapman announced today that they will be seeking four-year terms on the Asbury Park City Council in this November’s election. All three were previously elected in 2016 and will be running again as the Asbury Together ticket.  In a news release, the […]

Look for an August opening at the Deal Lake Bar + Co where owners Phil Villapiano, Jr., Greg Bartz and Andrea Pappas are ready to host patrons at the scenic lakefront location overlooking Asbury Park and Loch Arbour.  As for the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, Villapiano says there’s a silver lining in that […]