Continuing a practice that started last year during the pandemic, the city will open Cookman Avenue to pedestrian and bicycles to create a “Downtown Pedestrian Zone” on weekends, which includes the expansion of dining and retail onto the sidewalk and street. Starting this Friday, vehicular through traffic will be prohibited from Fridays until early Monday […]

The eastbound lane of Cookman Avenue between Main and Bond streets will be closed to traffic from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, according to an alert from the Asbury Park Police Department. According to officials, road construction work will also prohibit parking along the south side of the corridor. Access to Cookman Avenue outside […]

The City of Asbury Park has announced a planned Jersey Central Power & Light electric outage in the downtown Tuesday. “There will be a planned interruption of electric service in order to secure a switch that’s located in our manhole,” according to the statement. The work is being done to ‘help improve electric service reliability.’ The […]

Robert Legere Design Center and Robert Legere Home on Cookman Avenue are no longer in business. The sudden closing was announced with a notice on the doors of both locations stating “Robert Legere Companies is no longer in business and is permanently closed.” The businesses are owned by Steve Troy and Robert Legere (above). A […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, While walking on Cookman Ave. last Sunday, I noticed the abundance of restaurants, shops and cafes.  Lots of competition there, I hope they succeed. What I didn’t see was a store offering necessities like groceries.  As far as I know, the nearest full service store is on Memorial Parkway.  So if […]

While it takes vision, hard work and planning for a small business to thrive, the state’s Partnership for Action is helping owners get the support they need. Among them is Asbury Park’s own Parlor Gallery on Cookman Avenue. The woman-owned, artist directed-and-curated gallery, recently received a $20,000 working capital loan via the state’s bank — […]

The recent launch of new eateries and businesses in the city’s Central Business District redevelopment zone has launched parking complaints usually heard during the height of the summer season. In the past few months, Old Man Rafferty’s was transformed into Prohibition, Taka re-launched at its new Cookman Avenue location, Cross and Orange opened in the […]

The 4,000 square foot space that once housed Ivan & Andy’s Prime steakhouse is in the midst of a transformation. New owners, brothers Bob Fahey, 38, and Chris Fahey, 40, will open the doors on their newest venture, Cross & Orange, hopefully by mid December — but they aren’t rushing it, said Bob Fahey. “We want […]

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 […]

A new furniture and interior design store is about to join the ranks of new businesses along Asbury Park’s downtown Cookman Avenue. S.alt Design Co., is an interior design gallery whose style combines authentic, classic design principles and mixes them with a modern, industrial edge that is inspired by the simplicity of living at the […]