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, Regarding your recent articles about the parking challenges in the city, a small group of concerned citizens has been working behind the scene for the past year — on their own time — to plan for the management of parking growth in all three main sections of Asbury Park. Monthly meetings […]

Another six condominium units are currently under construction in downtown Asbury Park. Local Asbury Park developers Patrick Fasano and Patrick Schiavino closed purchase on the building located at 700 Mattison Avenue, at the corner of Mattison and Bangs avenues, and renovations are underway on six one- and two-bedroom units, he said. “The Mattison,” a four-story building […]

Downtown Asbury Park’s newest bar and restaurant, Prohibition, is open for business. The restaurant is a modern take on the prohibition-era speakeasy. It offers prohibition-era cocktails and an American food menu in an elegant but casual atmosphere, according to co-owner Frank Gullace. “We want to make it as nice as possible, but for people to […]

Toast owner Amy Russo will open another of her breakfast and lunch restaurants in Red Bank in the current location of the Broadway Diner [right] on Monmouth Street. The Asbury Park restauranteur [shown above in Toast Asbury] said she expects ownership to formally transfer by the end of the month. The Red Bank restaurant will […]

An empty Lake Avenue parcel in the downtown business district is slated for a six-unit condominium development under an application filed with the Planning Board. The site, which already has a curb cut, is believed to have been vacant since the 1960s, according to project developer Trip Brooks. The Planning Board is scheduled to hear […]

At 11 a.m. on Dec. 14, Mogo’s co-owners will open the doors of their new Cookman Avenue location and start serving Korean tacos for the first time over the winter months. Co-owners Sam Chung and Jay Devino [shown above, respectively] have operated their Korean taco pop-up stand on the boardwalk for the past few years. After […]

It’s official. The New Jersey Zombie Walk is back atop the Guinness World Records list for the “largest gathering of zombies.” A record 9,592 zombies invaded the Asbury Park beach Saturday, reclaiming their title from the 8,027 zombies that set the record last year at Minnesota’s Zombie Pub Crawl. The records management team for Guinness […]

Downtown Asbury Park restaurant Munch closed Friday after seven years at 632 Cookman Ave., and the owners of Mogo, the Korean taco stand on the boardwalk, have plans to take over the space. Kendan “Ken” Lee has plans to sell the lease and all of the equipment in Munch to Mogo co-owners Jay Devino and […]

Today is the last chance to “Vibe in the Streets” this summer, as Asbury Park’s Thursday street party series comes to a close. Vibe in the Streets is organized by APVibe, a marketing campaign to promote downtown Asbury Park as a dining and cultural destination. For the Vibe events, vehicular traffic on Cookman Avenue, from […]