Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, An underlying social condition in Asbury Park is being exacerbated by a membership-based pool club on the land east of Ocean Avenue between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Waterfront redevelopers iStar and Madison Marquette gained approval for the pool club through an outdated 2002 Waterfront Redevelopment Agreement and a 2004 dated […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, Thank you to all who contributed to the Mayor’s Rodeo for Recreation. A special thank you to the committee consisting of Leesha Floyd, Cassandra Dickerson, Caroline O’Toole,Tara Werner, Cindy Dye, Barbara VanWagner, Tamica Smith Genise Hughes and Kevin Keddy; some who worked for six months to make this  happen. Congratulations to […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, I, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and citizen of Asbury Park, NJ, am writing to strongly oppose the 2019-2024 plan for new oil and gas drilling off the U.S. coast including New Jersey coastline. I am a witness to the many beach closures due to pollution of our oceans and waterways, to […]

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 […]

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, Ancient laws from the time of the Roman Empire held that the seas, the shores of the seas, the air and running water was common to everyone. This law became the internationally accepted Public Trust Doctrine. It is a law that requires all governments to hold in trust all public lands with universal public […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, When Asbury Park’s last open space natural resource north beach area, Bradley Cove, is viewed solely as a source of profit and gain, there are serious consequences to our earth and peoples. This vision engenders immense economic inequality, injustices and can provoke acts of violence against the majority of humanity and our natural […]

Improvements are expected to be complete this week to the Eighth Avenue dog beach also known as a popular fishing and surfing area. The changes came after close to 100 petitioners asked the City Council to clean up the north beach area where dogs are allowed free reign from 6 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. during […]