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 […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, On Saturday June 24th we will meet at 11:00 am in front of Asbury Tower to rally and march to iStar’s Asbury Park office to deliver the same message we delivered to the past City Council, the County Freeholders, and the State DEP: Asbury Park’s north end beach must be preserved. […]

To the Editor, Asbury Park Sun, The only deterrent to creating a much desired oceanfront public community park at the North End beach in Asbury Park is iStar Financial/Residential. iStar has the development rights to build townhouses on the Ocean Avenue public right-a-way in front of Asbury Tower to the Loch Arbor border. This development […]

Oceanfront Preservation Coalition, activists working to save a parcel of waterfront land in the north beach area from development are organizing a rally. “The City of Asbury Park wants to negotiate a deal to save its north end beach from development and create an oceanfront park,” the written announcement for the June 24 event said. […]

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 […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, The A-Team is Back. The A-Team is back – they just changed their name to “Citizens for Asbury Park.” It’s the same A-Team that falsified a Cory Booker endorsement and plastered it all over town, even after Senator Booker publicly denied it.  The same A-Team that ran a messenger ballot scheme […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, If the Asbury Park community sat down to create elected officials who best represent our diverse and progressive interests, I think we would want what the Asbury Together team of Amy Quinn, Yvonne Clayton, and Eileen Chapman represents. We want a diverse team that can relate to us all; black, white, gay, […]

Four applicants have put in their bids for the Asbury Park City Council seat left vacant when Councilman Joe Woerner stepped down last month. In alphabetical order they are Democratic Chair Giuseppe Grillo, community leader Daniel Harris, former Board of Education member Corey Lowell, and restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach. Woerner, a 10 year city resident, stepped […]

Parking guidelines were finalized during the first Asbury Park City Council Regular Meeting Wednesday. The adoption came with three minor revision that were based on public comments and inquiries. Municipal attorney Frederick Raffetto said four revisions were deemed necessary following Monday night’s workshop, three of which were included in the Wednesday night adoption. The fourth, […]

The Asbury Park City Council will vote to introduce an ordinance Wednesday during its 7 p.m Regular session meeting that manages its parking throughout the Central Business District Area of Cookman, Bangs, Lake, and Mattison Avenues and in the waterfront area. The changes include shifting metered parking costs from a flat hourly rate to one […]