A group of Asbury Park business owners have come together to lead a campaign to support 2017 hurricane victims. Led by Marilyn Schlossbach Food For Thought By The Sea nonprofit, the team is calling on those in the business community to lend a hand during the Nov 10 to 12 fundraising drive. The team includes […]

Watermark on the Asbury Park boardwalk will be hosting a voter registration drive from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, owner Russell Lewis has announced. “If you have not yet registered to vote, or have moved in past 30 days and have not yet registered to vote at your new address, this is your chance before […]

Watermark owner Russell Lewis has launched a campaign that builds on a trend that has already taken hold across the nation. The popular farm to table movement embraced by many homes and restaurants is coming to Lewis’ oceanfront venue known for its premium cocktails and tapas offerings. On Thursday night, Lewis unveiled his farm to bar […]

Watermark, an upscale bar and lounge on the Asbury Park boardwalk, has donated a total of $21,500 to support a full music program at the city’s Hope Academy Charter School. At a benefit held Tuesday, Watermark owner Russell Lewis presented Asbury Park’s Musical Heritage Society with a check for $20,000 and, by the end of […]

Members of the Asbury Park City Council are expected to address the issue of holiday parking rates at their next meeting on Nov. 26. Options are free parking, or free parking for three hours, in the downtown and waterfront. Reduced rates are also an option. One council member says that visitors will be given some […]

A Thursday benefit for New Jersey-based civil rights organization Garden State Equality turned into more of a celebration of the state’s recent ruling to allow same-sex marriages. The event, a reception held at Watermark followed by a film screening of the documentary film “Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement,” at Porta, brought about 150 members of the […]

Picking up where they left off before Hurricane Sandy, Tim McLoone and his band “The Shirleys” reopened McLoone’s Supper Club Saturday night with the last two songs they played before the October 29 storm shut down the Asbury Park boardwalk. “So where were we?” joked McLoone [at top] as he sat down at the piano […]

McLoone’s Asbury Grille will be the first business to reopen on the boardwalk after Hurricane Sandy when its doors open at 4 p.m. for dinner on Thursday, according to Tim McMahon, vice president for operations at McLoone Enterprises. The restaurant will resume normal operations on Friday. It will then be open for lunch and dinner […]

In a key step toward reopening businesses on the boardwalk, electric power was restored to three oceanfront pavilions on Monday. For the first time since Hurricane Sandy, the lights were on at McLoone’s Asbury Grille in the Fifth Avenue pavilion as shown at top last night. Also turned on were the Ocean Ave. streetlights from […]