Boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette is bringing skateboarding back to the waterfront with the  launch of Forth Union Skate and Culture Organization Sunday. Through a partnership with Red Bull, a wooden skate bowl will be housed temporarily inside the historic Carousel building. The 3 ½ foot mini bowl [previously housed at Mountain Creek resort in Vernon], […]

A benefit in support of the Asbury Park Skateboard Foundation [APSF] will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at Little Buddy Hideaway of Cookman Avenue. As progress moves forward with the local nonprofit’s goal to construct a permanent skateboarding park, its organizers’ missions of running youth clinics are being realized. A temporary home, complete with a […]

Danny Cavaliere III of Toms River held on as a group of Asbury Park Skateboarding Foundation [APSF] volunteers led him across Asbury Park Carousel building parking lot Sunday. At times his face showed trepidation but then there were the fleeing smiles as his confidence grew. Cavaliere [shown below] is a 2 ½ year old Toms […]

The Asbury Park Skateboarding Foundation, having obtained its 501 (c) (3) nonprofit status, can now apply for grants and donations to fund its proposed skateboarding park. But where the park will be located is not set in stone. Last week the Foundation’s organizers wrote an open letter to the community. The letter came after questions […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, If you read the headlines of last week’s triCityNews, you’d get a visual of some environmental folks on one side of a park and some angry skateboarders on the other, waiting for the referee’s whistle, before charging full steam at one another in some primitive “winner take all event”. That’s hardly […]

The Asbury Park Skateboard Foundation will hold its first stand-alone fundraising event Sunday at the Wonder Bar. Founded last spring, the nonprofit aims to secure land to construct a public skateboard park for all ages and skill levels. The initiative involves community engagement to create an innovative design that encourages a multi-purpose use, according to […]