Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, Asbury Park’s waterfront developer iStar Financial, Inc. will present its plans for a membership-based beach and pool club 6 pm May 29. The beach club is being marketed as an amenity to the recently developed high-rise luxury condo and hotel, The Asbury Ocean Club. Hundreds of concerned residents, environmental advocates […]

Madison Marquette’s Fourth Avenue Pavillion renovation will proceed with a few changes should the City Council, serving as the redevelopment authority, and the Planning Board grant approval. Initially approved in October 2017, the boardwalk redeveloper came back with plan changes in December that included a roof deck reduction, an ADA ramp relocation and allowing 10 […]

The Asbury Park City Council will meet Wednesday in Council Chambers, located at 1 Municipal Plaza. The closed executive session begins at 4 p.m. and is followed consecutively by the 6 p.m. public workshop and 7 p.m. regular meeting. Items on the agenda include: • Executive session discussions pertaining to City Manager’s performance review, contract […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in Council Chambers at City Hall, located at 1 Municipal Plaza. There will be a 5 p.m. closed executive session. The public meetings begin at 6 p.m. with a  workshop session and is followed by the 7 p.m. Regular City Council Meeting. Public participation takes […]

Two local activists, who have been behind the over 10 year fight to preserve the north end beach plot of land unofficially known as Bradley Cove, have sent a letter directly to iStar Financial CEO Jay Sugarman. In the April 13 letter, former Councilman Joe Woerner and his Oceanfront Preservation Coalition co chair Joyce Grant […]

Changes to waterfront redeveloper iStar’s renovation of the 1960’s era Asbury Lanes will come back before the Planning Board 7 p.m. Tuesday in Council Chambers, located at 1 Municipal Plaza. The popular venue closed a year ago for a redesign that included a new roof and interior walls, an update of the kitchen and its […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by the regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the agenda include: • Executive session discussions re […]

A decade’s long quest to save their 1883 Victorian home on Seventh Avenue was realized Wednesday morning, when Richard and Johna Karpinski moved the three-story house across the street to Webb. “We’ve owned the house for 27 years,” Johna Karpinski said. “We bought it as an investment property with the idea that we would want […]

Movement to preserve the tract of land dubbed Bradley Cove along Asbury Park’s north beach continues Wednesday. Members of the public will have the opportunity ask questions and make comments on a Monmouth County Green Acres grant application during the 7 p.m. City Council meeting. Green Acres funding is used to protect environmentally sensitive open […]

Ocean Avenue between Third and Fourth avenues will be closed until the Sunday high winds subside, OEM Coordinator Garrett Giberson Jr. The closure is a precautionary measure follwing the morning scaffolding collapse at iStar’s 1101 Ocean Avenue site, Giberson said. When developed, the 1101 Ocean Avenue high rise designed by famed architect Gary Hanel will […]