Master waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners has submitted design plans for town houses to be built by national homebuilder K. Hovnanian Homes in the waterfront redevelopment zone, adjacent to the downtown business district. IStar Financial — which is the majority owner of Asbury Partners — signed an agreement in November with Hovnanian to develop the project located […]

Now that Main Street restaurant Bistro Olé has closed, Johnny Mac’s House of Spirits owner John McGillion will use the area to increase the restaurant space of Mary Mac’s, one of the new businesses included in plans for a large-scale expansion of Johnny Mac’s. Initial renderings of the complex showed new bar and restaurant Mary Mac’s would […]

Prom season is on its way and Hotel Tides in Asbury Park is once again inviting people to don their best tuxedos and gowns to promote a worthy cause. The Pink Prom raises will raise funds for Project Real Empowerment on All Levels [R.E.A.L.], an LGBT youth center in Asbury Park where young adults can form […]

The first person to be federally prosecuted under a program for serious gun crime offenders is being made an example of through an advertising campaign paid for by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Two billboards, one in Asbury Park on Fourth Avenue between Memorial Drive and Main Street and one in Neptune on Rt. 35 South, […]

After a 15 year hiatus, the Boy Scouts of America have a presence again in Asbury Park. Mayor Myra Campbell and member of the city council formally welcomed the Boy Scouts of America back to the city by proclamation at the Feb. 5 meeting, recognizing the city’s Unit No. 241 as being a fully chartered […]

Life is all about making choices. That is the message members of the Monmouth County Sheriff’ Office Department of Correction Gang Intelligence Unit delivered to students at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Asbury Park Thursday during a presentation about the risks of joining a gang. The Gang Intelligence Unit deals with incarcerated gang […]

Two members of the Asbury Park City Council at a meeting held Wednesday talked about the recent sweep of arrests made in the city in connection with gun use, drug sales and violent crimes. “I’ve got to commend all of those involved,” said Mayor Myra Campbell, although she acknowledged she and other member of council […]

Three of Asbury Park’s native sons will share their recollections of city’s jazz scene from the 1940s to today in a panel discussion held at the old Oakhurst School in Ocean Township in March, according to a release from the Ocean Township Historical Museum. The event is the next in the Ocean Township Historical Museum’s […]

European-style bistro Dauphin Grille and connecting Berkeley Bar, located in Asbury Park’s Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, have closed. “We love the hotel and we love the space but it is not who we are from a business standpoint,” said restaurant owner Marilyn Schlossbach. Recent changes in the corporate management of the hotel provided Schlossbach and her business […]

Bistro Ole, one of the first restaurants to open in downtown Asbury at the start of the business district’s economic revitalization, closed its doors on February 14. “Bistro Ole would like to thank our devoted staff and our customers for ten and a half years of celebrations and memories,” said Bistro Ole partner Rico Rivera. […]