With the holiday season just around the corner, this Sunday offers shoppers in Asbury Park the chance to beat the crowds and score unique gifts and artisan goods early on. More than 30 of the city’s downtown and oceanfront shops will bring their wares out onto the streets during the Asbury Park Citywide Sidewalk Sale, […]

Robert McKeon, the city’s director of property improvement and neighborhood preservation and assistant city prosecutor, has officially been handed the reins to address abandoned properties in the city. At the Sept. 17 council meeting, city council members unanimously voted to amend the city’s abandoned properties ordinance. The change passed the responsibility of addressing abandoned properties […]

From September 23 through 30, the Asbury Park police department made the following arrests: SEPT 23 • A 28-year-old male from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with defiant trespassing in the 600 block of Fifth Avenue. • A 28-year-old male from Neptune was arrested and charged with defiant trespassing in the 600 block of […]

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 […]

Waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial’s plans for 34-unit condominium development received the stamp of approval from the city’s Technical Review Committee [TRC] Thursday. The project, named “Monroe Condominiums” [shown below], is a three- and four-story complex slated for the eastern end of the block bound by Sewall, Monroe and Grand Avenues, and Heck Street, near the […]

A parked vehicle was struck by bullets in a confirmed shots fired incident in the city but no further injuries have been reported. Police received multiple calls alerting them to three shots fired at approximately 5:30 a.m. Saturday and located a vehicle that was struck with projectiles in the 500 block of Seventh Avenue, according […]

A Monmouth County grand jury returned a four-count indictment Wednesday charging a Red Bank teen with the armed robbery of an Asbury Park teen, according to court documents. Bairon Escobar, 18, faces charges of first degree armed robbery, third degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, fourth degree unlawful possession of a weapon, and fourth […]

Three local police departments will host collection sites for citizens to drop off unused, unwanted and expired prescription medication as part of the “National Take–Back Initiative” medicine disposal day. The National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about […]

Vegan restaurant Goldie’s will shut its doors after service on Sunday. The eatery is one of the four restaurants in Asbury Park owned and operated by Smith Group. The high-end restaurant with exposed kitchen opened the in the summer of 2013 as New Jersey’s first vegan restaurant with a liquor license, as previously reported in the […]