A $50,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Transportation [NJDOT] was used to fortify the boardwalk the week before the Bamboozle music festival in May, according to city manager Terence Reidy. The grant was one of 25 awarded to municipalities for infrastructure repairs and announced by NJDOT on Sept. 12. The city used the […]

A beachfront search for the lost New Era monument yielded no results this weekend, and the Asbury Park Historical Society [APHS] is looking at replicating the 19th-century artifact. Asbury Park’s founder, James A. Bradley, erected the monument to the New Era shipwreck in around 1893, APHS member Don Stine said. The year after its installation, […]

A 24-year-old man was fatally shot on Sewall Avenue today, Police Chief Mark Kinmon has confirmed. The shooting occurred in the 1000 block of Sewall Avenue during the mid-afternoon today. The area of Sewall Avenue between Comstock and Langford streets is currently closed off with police tape [pictured above]. The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the […]

Labor Day Weekend has come and gone but at the Asbury Park boardwalk, locals and visitors alike can have one last taste of summer at the Endless Summer Tiki Weekend. This is the second annual Tiki Weekend, according to Amanda DiRobella of boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette. The event began last year as a collaboration between […]

For years, amusements and Asbury Park were synonymous. The ferris wheel at Palace Amusements, the carousel at the Casino. Those types of cultural fixtures are no longer a permanent presence in the city. But a few times a year in the spring and summer, a traveling carnival makes its way into town. Ocean Grove resident […]

Waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners is set to demolish four buildings over the next one to three weeks. Two of the buildings are located in the same block as the area known as the stump yard on Cookman Avenue. Asbury Partners began to level the stump yard yesterday. The two buildings on Cookman are a former […]

The board of education [BOE] is finalizing plans for administrative offices to move from downtown Asbury Park to the Barack H. Obama building on Bangs Avenue [pictured above]. The district’s administrative staff has occupied a floor of The Press Building at 603 Mattison Ave. [right] for several years, paying $189,327 annually, or about $15,000 per […]

A new café is on its way to the west side — and it’s not just any eatery. Kula Café will function as a training ground for the city’s youth and a healthy eating hub in the Springwood Center [above]. The restaurant will train area young adults who want to work in the restaurant industry, […]

Asbury Park is set to receive a $50,000 grant for boardwalk reconstruction, according to a state Department of Transportation [NJDOT] press release. The grant is one of 25 bring administered by the NJDOT through the Local Aid Infrastructure Fund program, according to the release. Other municipalities are receiving grants to help with street repairs, drainage […]

Randy Thompson is one of five citizens whose names will appear on the general election ballot this November for a charter study commission. A charter study commission [CSC] would scrutinize the city’s current form of government and possibly recommend changes. The CSC is subject to two votes in the November general election. First, voters can […]