The Allenhurst Police Department will be participating in an upcoming “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign. Through grant finds received by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Allenhurst police will put additional officers on the road between August 15 and September 1, according to a news release from police. The additional officers will conduct both roving patrols and […]

An exterior wall that runs along the Ocean Avenue side of Asbury Park’s famed concert venue The Stone Pony has a new look. An 8-foot chain link fence has been replaced by an 11-foot masonry wall on the eastern perimeter. The white wall, which extends slightly down the southern side along the perimeter of the […]

Neighborhoods across the country will celebrate the 31st annual National Night Out Against Crime Tuesday, Aug. 5. Since its inception in 1984 by the National Association of Town Watch – a non-profit organization that seeks to develop and promote crime prevention programs – the yearly event has become a time for members of the public […]

An open house will be held at the historic Stephen Crane House in Asbury Park on Sunday, August 10, in an effort to raise public awareness and increase donations for a major fundraising campaign to purchase and restore the location, according to a news release from the Asbury Park Historical Society. The house, located at 508 […]

Below is the Allenhurst police blotter from July 12 through 28. The information is published unedited from the Allenhurst Police Department: JULY 12 • After stopping a 38-year-old Long Branch woman for an equipment violation, she was arrested on an outstanding criminal warrant out of Long Branch. She was processed and turned over to the custody of the […]

An Asbury Park man was arrested Wednesday for shoplifting after a witness saw him place eyeglasses in a potato chip bag, according to a news release from Ocean Township police. Imhotep Muhammad, 50, was allegedly spotted by an employee of the Eye Diagnostic and Surgery Center placing several pairs of eyeglasses in the chip bag in an […]

The Monmouth County DWI Task force will conduct a checkpoint to detect drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs on Friday, August 1, according to Brielle Police Chief Michael W. Palmer. The checkpoint will run from 11 p.m. Friday through 3 a.m. Saturday on Route 35. Task force members and officers from the Ocean Township Police Department […]

Master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial is currently exploring options on how to preserve Asbury Lanes, a retro bowling alley built in 1961 that has been operating as a music venue for the past ten years. IStar has submitted plans to the city to develop a 110-room boutique hotel in the long-vacant Salvation Army building on […]

Manhattan-based design firm Stonehill & Taylor unveiled well-received plans for the restoration of the Salvation Army building to the city’s Technical Review Committee Tuesday. Master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial brought Stonehill & Taylor in to transform the long-vacant building into an 110-room boutique style hotel, located on the block bound by Kingsley, Fourth and Fifth […]

For the first Wednesday in nearly seven years, downtown Cookman Avenue mainstay Old Man Rafferty’s will not open for service. Restaurant owner Mark Jakuboski had a contract in place for owners of the Shore House Bar and Grill in Point Pleasant to purchase the Asbury Park location at the corner of Emory Street and Cookman Avenue in […]