Developers of a live action theater currently under renovation on Cookman Avenue have requested the city’s permission to add a marquee sign to the front facade [shown above]. Sackman Enterprises attorney Andrew Karas for Cookman Community Development Urban Renewal, LLC, owned by downtown developer Sackman Enterprises, made a presentation to the city’s planning board Monday evening […]

From March 5 to 10 the Asbury Park Police Department made the following arrests: MARCH 5 • A 29-year-old male from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with resisting arrest at the intersection of Comstock Street and Prospect Avenue. • A 32-year-old male from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with possession of controlled dangerous […]

An Asbury Park juvenile showed up to Asbury Park Middle School Friday with a stab wound he allegedly received the day before while out on a city street, police said. The victim, a 15-year-old male, told the school nurse on Friday that he had been stabbed with a kitchen knife once in the lower portion […]

On Wednesday, March 19, at 3 p.m. members of the Wesley Lake Commission will announce their plans for the lake’s upcoming restoration project at a special press conference. The announcement will take place on the Pilgrim Pathway Footbridge located on the lake, the most easterly bridge between Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, according to a […]

A 29-year old city man allegedly stabbed another man outside of the Cascada Nighclub on Main Street early Monday morning, according to police. Manuel Tirado-Silva, Asbury Park, was allegedly involved in an altercation inside the club with a 29-year-old Hispanic male from Red Bank, said Asbury Park police Capt. Marshawn Love. Tirado-Silva was removed from […]

A new chapter was added to Asbury Park’s history books Sunday, March 9, as the Inaugural St. Patrick’s Day Parade made its way from Convention Hall through downtown Cookman Avenue. About 3000 people showed up to watch the parade, the majority of which were concentrated along downtown Cookman Avenue. “We really had no doubt in our […]

While city and county officials plan a meeting to discuss a possible joint initiative to preserve an open tract of land on the North Beach of Asbury Park, a new avenue of funding may become available which could allow the city to acquire the land itself. In the spring, $100 million in Green Acres grant funds […]

The chairman of the Asbury Park Democratic Organization, Guiseppe “Joe” Grillo, 37, has announced his candidacy for the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders. Freeholder Director Lillian G. Burry and Freeholder Deputy Director Gary J. Rich, Sr., are the Republican incumbents. The five-member Freeholder board runs the county government. Grillo will seek the county Democratic organization’s backing at […]

[Editor’s note: This letter makes reference to a 2010 report from New Jersey State Comptroller A. Matthew Boxer titled, “A Programmatic Examination of Municipal Tax Abatements.” The full report can be found here. Cited in the letter is a quote from a press release issued by Boxer’s office at the time of the report. The full […]

A city tax abatement ordinance tabled for further review after members of the public voiced opposition to it was voted into law Wednesday. Members of the Asbury Park City Council again split their votes 3-2 on the measure. Mayor Myra Campbell and Council members John Loffredo and Susan Henderson voted yes. Council members Amy Quinn and […]