Plans to narrow Asbury Park’s Main Street from a four-lane to two-lane road will come back before the City Council Wednesday.  Known as a Road Diet, the traffic-calming measure is used reduce congestion and make roadways safer for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. In the case of the state-owned Main Street, plans were to reduce its […]

After two years of urging the state’s Department of Transportation [DOT] not to implement a Main Street slimming measure, city officials announced Monday night that the proposed road diet is off. The traffic-calming measure is said to reduce congestion and make roadways safer for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. In the case of the state-owned Main […]

A man who was shot once in the abdomen by police after he injured a police officer and tried to take another officer’s gun now faces an attempted murder charge. Oswaldo Torres Quiroz, 22, Iselin, has been charged with first degree attempted murder, second degree attempting to disarm a law enforcement officer, third degree resisting […]

An Asbury Park police officer shot a man after the man stabbed another officer in an altercation on the sidewalk in front of a building in the 600 block of Main Street Monday. Police responded to a report of a disorderly persons at 619 Main St. around 9:20 a.m. where they found 22-year-old Oswaldo Torres […]

Come springtime, Asbury Fresh organizers will open a year-round market in Asbury Park. The Asbury Fresh Public Market will be housed in a 4,000 square foot converted warehouse behind storefronts on Second Avenue off Main Street. Plans are to fill the space with about a dozen year-round food and craft vendors along with an event […]

The planning board was scheduled to hear an application for a large-scale expansion of Johnny Mac’s at its meeting last night and later vote on the matter, but it was tabled because officials said plans came in late to City Hall. John McGillion, the Main Street tavern’s owner, said he was unaware of a deadline […]

The city council may amend the parking ordinance to extend two-hour parking on Main Street. Two-hour parking rules are in effect from the Neptune border to Fifth Avenue. The city’s advisory parking committee is currently looking at extending the restrictions north of Fifth Avenue to Deal Lake Drive, effectively creating border-to-border two-hour parking. The purpose […]