Five city women have come together to launch a women’s convention aimed at spotlighting issues that affect women across party lines. Entitled Asbury Park Women’s Convention: A Day of Politics and Comedy, the day long event will be held Feb 24 at The Asbury. “This is a pivotal time for women,” Councilwoman Yvonne Clayton said in […]

A group Hope Academy Charter School middle schoolers got a behind the scenes look at just how city governance works. Led by Councilwoman Yvonne Clayton and Deputy Mayor Amy Quinn, the tour is a part of a burgeoning program aimed at garnering an early interest in neighborhood involvement by educating students on the role local […]

A National Survey by the Human Rights Campaign shows the Asbury Park has made strides in a scorecard that measures LGBTQ inclusivity in city laws and policies, municipal officials announced Friday. “The LGBTQ community has been a long-standing part of Asbury Park’s history, and an instrumental part of the City’s current period of revitalization and […]

Short Term Rental regulations will be introduced during the Asbury Park City Council Regular Session on Wednesday. Defined as rentals that are 30 days or less and those that do not exceed 180 days in a calendar year, short term rentals applies to stays outside of the already regulated bed and breakfast, rooming or boarding […]

A team of Northwest Indiana business and community leaders will be heading to town next month to see first hand what Asbury Park has to offer. Organized by Leah Konrady of One Region and Vanessa Ide of the Vanide Group, the 20 to 25 group will be on a fact finding mission to help develop […]

Canadian travel channel Evasion sent its Go To The Beach crew to town this week. Their assignment was to spotlight the city as a summer road trip destination.  “As any Quebec resident will tell you, no summer is complete without a road-trip down the coast of the Eastern United States,” officials said in a written statement. “Nothing […]

Hundreds of postcards, some with personal messages, were posted at noon Saturday on the doors leading into iStar’s local office on Ocean Avenue. The message – Save Asbury Park’s north end beach from development. iStar, as the city’s waterfront redeveloper, owns the development rights for much of the waterfront redevelopment area and has proposed constructing […]

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 […]

Madison Marquette and the City of Asbury Park announced in a 4 p.m. news release that they have launched a free public Wi-Fi network accessible to all along its beaches and boardwalk. Testing for the new network began in October 2016, according to the written statement. “Our new wireless network brings much-desired connectivity to residents and […]

The New Jersey Department of Transportation [NJDOT] has awarded Asbury Park a Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning Assistance grant that will pave the way for safer streets for all who use the city’s roadways. The state grant program offers municipalities technical assistance and lends recommendations to improve bicycle and pedestrian safety and access within a study area. […]