Starting in February, you’ll be using your license plate to pay for parking in Asbury Park instead of entering a space number — a system called “pay-by-plate.” If you pay for parking at a pay station, you’ll be inputting your license plate number. You can also save your license plate information in the city’s mobile […]

Paid parking will resume in the waterfront area and the downtown business district on April 1. “I ask everyone to prepare themselves for that,” said Mayor Ed Johnson at the council’s workshop session last night. “It’s well past time.” Paid parking had been suspended while parking pay stations were replaced after sustaining damage due to […]

Free three-hour parking is in effect until further notice, although officials say metered parking should be back in effect by the end of the month. In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy damaged 57 of the city’s 100 parking pay stations. The city ordered 57 newer models at $789,008 to replace the broken machines. The pay stations […]

The council at its Feb. 6 meeting approved an award for a contract for new parking pay stations, putting the city on track to receive new stations by Feb. 20 and reinstate metered parking by March 1. Free three-hour parking has been in effect downtown and at the waterfront since Hurricane Sandy damaged 57 of […]

Asbury Park’s city council is scheduled to meet in council chambers tonight, with a closed executive session starting at 5 p.m.; a workshop session at 6 p.m.; and a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Items on the agenda include: • A report on crime from Police Chief Mark Kinmon during the 6 p.m. workshop session. […]

Because of damage from Hurricane Sandy, free three-hour parking in metered areas of the city has been extended until ruined pay stations can be replaced. “We need to extend it,” city manager Terence Reidy said at the Dec. 19 council meeting. Free parking usually begins around Thanksgiving and extends until the beginning of January. This […]