The Lights! Camera! Politics! Film Series kicks-off its third season 3 p.m. Saturday at the historic Stephen Crane House on Fourth Avenue in Asbury Park. This season’s theme is ‘Presidential Election Scandals,’ featuring three class movies with tales of political intrigue, deceit and cover-ups which attempt to influence the outcome of presidential elections, organizer Ed […]

The Asbury Park Historical Society will host a meet and greet with two notable historians behind the Hidden History of New Jersey Series. To be held 7 p.m. Sept. 1 at the Asbury Park Public Library, located at the corner of First and Grand avenues, the event will include a PowerPoint presentation by the two […]

A decade’s long quest to save their 1883 Victorian home on Seventh Avenue was realized Wednesday morning, when Richard and Johna Karpinski moved the three-story house across the street to Webb. “We’ve owned the house for 27 years,” Johna Karpinski said. “We bought it as an investment property with the idea that we would want […]

Last week’s call for residents to participate in the Springwood Avenue Park Naming was immediately met with suggestions made via social media that included everyone from Danny DeVito to Walter Read and Pastor Derinzer Johnson of St. Stephen AME Zion Church. “It’s a decision we didn’t want to make in a vacuum,” said City Council […]

The Asbury Park Historical Society invites the community to an open house reception at their new headquarters located in the Stephen Crane House on Fourth Avenue. The event, being held from 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 1, honors Crane’s birthday as well as the Society’s recent acquisition of the 137-year-old home, believed to be the […]

The former home of American author and journalist Stephen Crane is now the property of the Asbury Park Historical Society. “For the first time in the society’s 14-year history we now have our own home and a headquarters from which to operate,” Society President Don Stine said. The house was sold free-of-charge to the Historical […]

Between 1910 and 1970 — long before Asbury Park became known for rock music — the city’s African American community rocked the sounds of jazz, gospel, and rhythm and blues on Springwood Avenue. An upcoming gallery exhibit that highlights Asbury Park’s black music scene, from Count Basie to Billy Brown, is on its way to […]

The teenage home of famous American author Stephen Crane was officially placed on the New Jersey State Register of Historic Places Dec. 16. The house, located at 508 Fourth Ave. in the city, is slated to be purchased by the Asbury Park Historical Society in the near future and preserved as a museum dedicated to […]

Think you know the Asbury Park boardwalk?  Which one?  Asbury Park has had two Casinos, three Asbury Avenue pavilions, two Natatoriums, and innumerable amusement rides in the past 125 years — and that includes only the first two-block area. Join the Asbury Park Historical Society for “Greetings from Asbury Park(s): A 125-Year Stroll Down the Boardwalk” […]

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 […]