[AsburyPark] Another Twist on Development
NY Times Article - excerpts: ...in the nine years since construction began that the schools are overflowing, property taxes are skyrocketing and the main streets are clogged. ...lent their construction manager to Asbury Park for a $150,000 fee. Last month, they sued the state Department of Education for money they claim was unfairly cut off The lost state aid might have become an afterthought if the township had been able to collect anticipated taxes from commercial property next to Town Center. Without the expected commercial taxes, residential property taxes in Washington Township rose 84 percent between 1998 and 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/nyregion/09smart.html? _r=1pagewanted=all or http://tinyurl.com/36ht3q Werner Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Drug Testing in Schools
good suggestions with some should already be in place.uniforms have always been controversial point with parents paying..If Jersey City can do it so can AP 2fine4u [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, wait_foru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what suggestion might one have as an alternative to what is going on? Install Metal detectors at ALL entrances. Every student, every teacher and any personnel, should be wearing photo ID, with the name of the school, attending and hours of entrance and dismissal, posted. Any student or adult, with ANY weapons will be suspended, pending expulsion. Uniforms, should be worn and females should dress appropriately; white school blouse and dark slacks in winter, skirts in Spring and Fall. Each student and teacher, should have a school handbook, so there would be no mistake about what is required. The schools should have 2 uniformed police in the Middle and high schools. The elementary school should have security guards. One at the front entrance and 1 at the rear entrance. Unless a child is ill in school, parents must make an appointment, to see personnel. There should be regular assembly times for the principal and staff to address the students and fliers should be posted for upcoming events, if not published in the school newspaper or website. These are all I can think of, for now, but if any infractions or weapons are found, these kids should be sent to a youth detention facility and their parents notified, to pick them up and be seen as to how the school will mete out punishment. Compared to what these few safety precautions cost, the kids, would be better served, if they felt safe in the school or on the grounds. - 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with theYahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. - Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail QA for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users.
[AsburyPark] lake ave
lake ave should be closed and parking recreated. You have the whole lake front completely wasted. The only one who realized this was moonstruck. Alo, the original plans for Wesley Grave capitalized on the waterfront. Dumb and doomed from day one. Drove by the Wesley the other day. Only a small number of units sheetrocked. NOtice the hurry sign on the empty pile driven lot? I think that lot could become the world's largest arcade game stands: 1) knock the bottle off the piling 2) beanbag toss 3) whack a piling 4) hop-a-piling How about securing the MK or the the old phoneix go-go block? Its about violation time, no? Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: FCC Response to Pallone re. Asbury Radio
Can you post that website? I'd like to take a look-see, but forgot, how I got there! Silly me! Thanks for the letter! --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, radio881gal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file is posted now. Thanks, Werner. Let me know if anyone needs the link to the FCC's Enforcement Bureau pages, where they post the Notices of Apparent Violation. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Drug Testing in Schools
I don't know if it's me, or what, but I have a totally different point of reference about school, what it is, or what it should be! I feel that I'm out of touch and don't know, or realize, what's really happening today. I guess I sound old-fashioned, because I still think people are entitled to privacy, but since there's so much violence in schools now, privacy rights, seem to go out the window, huh? Privacy is one thing, overly intrusive suggestions, are another! These so-called kids, come to school, with too much baggage! Many, not all, are unfortunately in single parent situations, where even if the Mom or Dad, is a professional, they can find their child, pressured to be like the rest; ARMED! Columbine, proved that, the shooting in a small Amish community, proved that and here in tiny AP, we are saddled with problems, we never dreamed of! You can't assume, that a district that is majority Black, would be troublesome. I say that, because before 1960, every school in Louisiana, was segregated, public or private! We didn't have ADD, or what we called retarded kids, streamlined into our schools, it was Black or White and nothing in-between. You had your brainy A-B, students in one group, then you had what was slow learners, right? Children, being what they were, little bullies, or holier than thou, types, called these kids, DUMB! We didn't have disadvantaged; we had poor kids and the snots, with their noses, in the air! Drug testing? Test the adults, first! They're the ones, who we trust our kids to! I knew some teachers, who definitely needed psychiatric treatment! Don't laugh, you had some too! You remember the eccentric, ones? The ones, who smelled? The alcoholic, ones? Um-Hmmm! Don't forget the ones whose shoes, were run-over! I remember pretty teachers, that the boys, would drool over, the really hip and cool ones and the ones, who knew less, than you! Don't forget those child-abusing Nuns! When I read about sex-abusing priests, I cringe, because I know of no such people, in my Parish. In that regard, we were fortunate. So I have to apologize, for not being too on the ball, about conditions in the schools, nowadays, except I still believe children, are people and as such get enough grief, without well meaning adults, who want to trample, on what few rights, they have. Just me, nothing personal. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, wait_foru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good suggestions with some should already be in place.uniforms have always been controversial point with parents paying..If Jersey City can do it so can AP 2fine4u [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, wait_foru wait_foru@ wrote: So what suggestion might one have as an alternative to what is going on? Install Metal detectors at ALL entrances. Every student, every teacher and any personnel, should be wearing photo ID, with the name of the school, attending and hours of entrance and dismissal, posted. Any student or adult, with ANY weapons will be suspended, pending expulsion. Uniforms, should be worn and females should dress appropriately; white school blouse and dark slacks in winter, skirts in Spring and Fall. Each student and teacher, should have a school handbook, so there would be no mistake about what is required. The schools should have 2 uniformed police in the Middle and high schools. The elementary school should have security guards. One at the front entrance and 1 at the rear entrance. Unless a child is ill in school, parents must make an appointment, to see personnel. There should be regular assembly times for the principal and staff to address the students and fliers should be posted for upcoming events, if not published in the school newspaper or website. These are all I can think of, for now, but if any infractions or weapons are found, these kids should be sent to a youth detention facility and their parents notified, to pick them up and be seen as to how the school will mete out punishment. Compared to what these few safety precautions cost, the kids, would be better served, if they felt safe in the school or on the grounds. - 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with theYahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. - Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail QA for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Wesley grove
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[AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, oakdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone catch the new 4th ave pav? The wallpaper is up. = = Just came from there. A few thoughts come to mind. - Tacky - Gaudy - Silly - Waste of effort That is one of the few pavilions that is structurally sound. If it's in good enough condition to rehab for their sales/model office then it certainly could have been rehabed for actual retail/beachfront business uses. Werner Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Special Meeting on Overlook Park
From the Asbury Park City's website PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 9th day of May, 2007 at 6:00 P.M. a Public Hearing will be held in City Council Chambers, located in City Hall, One Municipal Plaza, Asbury Park, New Jersey regarding the City of Asbury Parks application to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Green Acres Program for a corrective amendment to the Asbury Park Recreation and Open Space Inventory. The amendment will remove a 25' by 100' portion of Block 117 Lot 1, commonly known as 500 Cookman Avenue or Overlook Park. The portion which is the subject of the application is located on the southwest corner of the property and lies beyond the sidewalk west of Overlook Park and bordering on a vacant lot currently used for parking on the east side of Moonstruck Restaurant. All information submitted to the Green Acres Program related to this application is available for public inspection in the City Clerks office located in City Hall during regular business hours: 9:00 5:00 and the Asbury Park Public Library, located at 500 First Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey. A copy is also available on the City of Asbury Parks website at www.cityofasburypark.com. We are inviting public participation in the Public Hearing and/or through the submission of written comments during a Public Comment Period, which will begin on April 5, 2007 and close on May 23, 2007. Any written comments during the Public Comment Period shall be submitted to: Tony Nuccio, Director Social Services and Community Relations City of Asbury Park One Municipal Plaza Asbury Park, New Jersey 07112 With copies to: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Green Acres Program Bureau of Legal Services and Stewardship P.O. Box 412 Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0412 Michael W. Brim 321 Sunset Ave. 5F Asbury Park NJ 07712 Cell: 732-996-8160 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, oakdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone catch the new 4th ave pav? The wallpaper is up. == Another issue: Will these improvements now trigger a re-valuation for tax purposes as has happened to many homeowners recently? Also does this now trigger the clock of rehabing all the subsequesnt pavilions as per the contract? Werner Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Special Meeting on Overlook Park
Thats funny/sad, they cant even get the name of the Park correct. Its Kennedy Park! Was dedicated in the 60s to JFK. The building next to it was called the Park Overlook. Werner Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] AP|Action Announces Endorsements for School Board
Asbury Park Action Campaign Endorses Castro, D'Alessandro, Lesinski and Pivinski for Board of Education AP|Action continues to be pleased by the desire of many Asbury Park residents who offer themselves for public service. The Board of Trustees thanks everyone who participated in our endorsement selection process and we offer our sincere gratitude to all of the candidates for their willingness to give their time in furthering our shared mission of creating a brighter future for Asbury Park. Most importantly, we strongly encourage every resident in Asbury Park to vote, as it is our belief that providing a strong education for our children is vital, and clearly, our future depends on it. Accordingly, we hope that every registered voter participates in this election by exercising his or her right to vote. AP|Action's Endorsement In endorsing a candidate, AP|Action attempts to make the best determination of the people seeking office in order to decide who is the most qualified. Equally important in our decision is the candidate's alignment with our core principles - embracing diversity, redeveloping Asbury Park successfully, improving the quality of life and governing openly and responsively. In the 2007 School Board election, it is our belief that Marie Castro, Frank D'Alessandro, Barbara Lesinski and Tom Pivinski represent the best choice for Asbury Park on April 17th. We strongly encourage all Asbury Park residents to vote for these candidates. One Year Term Frank D'Alessandro, a retired educator, has served on the Board of Education for the past three years with integrity and distinction. We are pleased Frank has decided to run for one additional year as his dedication and hard work would surely be missed. His knowledge of the workings of the district coupled with his willingness to roll up his sleeves and get the job done has proven to be the kind of leadership Asbury Park needs. Three Year Term Marie Castro is a semi-retired educator who we believe will bring a fresh perspective to the Asbury Park school system and the challenges it currently faces. Marie was recently appointed to the Board to fill a vacant seat and she noted a strong desire to work with all of the Board Members to solve problems and to develop sound policies in order to improve the education our children receive. Barbara Lesinski has dedicated herself to community service in Asbury Park for over a decade. A twelve-year veteran of the Asbury Park Police department, Barbara has also served as the Chairperson of the Asbury Park Housing Authority. We were impressed with her ideas with regards to making our schools safer and her enthusiasm for community service. Tom Pivinski, a former teacher and Asbury Park business owner, also serves as the Chairperson of the Asbury Park Environment and Shade Tree Commission. He is a well-rounded, level-headed, intelligent man with a diversity of experience and dedicates himself to any task he undertakes. It is without doubt that we endorse Tom as we fully believe he will work tirelessly to create a brighter future for the children of Asbury Park. Two Year Term AP|Action decided an endorsement is unnecessary since this is an uncontested race. AP|Action's Process In an effort to represent all of the residents of Asbury Park, the Asbury Park Action Campaign previously solicited the community to provide input on questions they would like to have answered from candidates for the BOE. The most popular questions were provided to all of the candidates and their written responses are factored into our decisions. Additionally, we provide all responses to the community and they will be distributed within a few days. While it is our hope that everyone will agree with our endorsement selections, we believe that helping to educate the public regarding a candidate's views is most important. Accordingly, we encourage everyone to use the candidate's answers as a reference for making their own determination regarding who they believe is best suited to serve Asbury Park. Primarily, we encourage everyone to get out and vote on April 17th! Additionally, every candidate was given an invitation to meet with AP|Action's Board of Trustees for an informal private interview. All accepted our invitation and we were very pleased with all of the candidates who were able to meet with us. The Board of Trustees then met to review the candidate's answers to the public questions and notes taken during the private interviews in order to decide who best aligns with our core principles and who is best qualified. Based on that meeting, the Board reached a consensus on endorsement selections. This notice is the formal announcement of the Asbury Park Action Campaign's endorsements in the 2007 Board of Education election. Now, our volunteers and sponsors will support the endorsed candidates via advertising including lawn signs, direct mail and newspapers. Additionally, we will continue to conduct voter
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
No matter how it looks, it will probably help Metro homes sell faster. It's a good location for an office, right behind the project. People going to the office can first hand see their future residence being built behind them. Thats a neat aspect. The support part is bad though, i didnt expect it to be quite like that either. I thought it would be painted on too, didn't know it was on tarps. It's interesting though. - Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut.
[AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No matter how it looks, it will probably help Metro homes sell faster. === The building is not even built yet ! Nice of you to want Metro sell faster. But - The purpose of redevelopment is to HELP THE CITY. Wouldn't rehabing the pavilion into a business filled fully assesed and taxed comercial building HELP THE CITY more ?? We are going to choke on taxes due to lack of ratables. Werner Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
The building is not even built yet ! Nice of you to want Metro sell faster. But - The purpose of redevelopment is to HELP THE CITY. Wouldn't rehabing the pavilion into a business filled fully assesed and taxed comercial building HELP THE CITY more ?? We are going to choke on taxes due to lack of ratables. yes, what you say makes more sence. i was just commenting on the location of the office is a good plaec for selling the project. the faster the building is sold, and done, the better it is for the city too? Of course the building isn't built yet! Alot of times mass retail projects or residential projects have offices before ground is broken. It's a good marketing tool. When people who don't know everything ride down Ocean ave, what's better for them to see? A big whole in the ground (c-8) or the future? It's good marketing. The project Dimond head on Ocean Blvd. in Long branch had offices set up before their building too (now under construction). - The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing.
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
Metro selling the units will help the city. The more contracts, the faster the building goes up c/o's issued (more ratables) and taxes collected. That building was WASTE for all this time. At least now it will dirve people to the boradwalk. Think about it, Metro is advertising, people will come to the sales office and then maybe walk around the borads. - Original Message From: wernerapnj [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 9, 2007 12:25:11 PM Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, charlie oceanchuck@ ... wrote: No matter how it looks, it will probably help Metro homes sell faster. = = = = = = = The building is not even built yet ! Nice of you to want Metro sell faster. But - The purpose of redevelopment is to HELP THE CITY. Wouldn't rehabing the pavilion into a business filled fully assesed and taxed comercial building HELP THE CITY more ?? We are going to choke on taxes due to lack of ratables. Werner The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
thue pavilion would be best used in a different way, of course. But, also consider the Asbury Partners offices are there too (their not going anywhere). The whole building might as well be offices, keep it all together. Image if they chose to use a portion of a different pavillion! Then we'd have two pavillions tied up! Also, what you said before, about having the clock start on reconstruction of the pavillions. I agree, not sure if you did, but i suspect thats the angle you were going for. If the Metro homes offices space, along side with asbury partners officves do not classify as rehabed, then i dont know what is. I say start the clock. Werner, do you have any inside info on the Fact that MM wants Lake ave. reopened? What are the chances of that acutally happening? Forgot who posted it, but they didnt come back at me with a reason behind what they said. It seemed like they had inside info fo sorts, not sure if that's posisable though charlie - Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games.
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
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[AsburyPark] Asbury Park: A West Side Story - Meet the Author
Asbury Park: West Side Story Meet author Madonna Carter Jackson Saturday, April 141 PM - 3 PM Barnes and Noble 310 Route 36, West Long Branch, NJ 732-542-8868 Amazon excerpt: _Amazon.com: Asbury Park: A West Side Story - A Pictorial Journey Through the Eyes of Joseph A. Carter, Sr: Books: Madonna, Ca._ (http://www.amazon.com/Asbury-Park-Pictorial-Journey-Through/dp/159800963X) Negatives Expose Positive Images A photographer's daughter preserved her father's archive of hundreds of black and white negatives. The Images are of a media neglected population of people living in Asbury Park, New Jersey's West Side. She shares her memories about the people and places captured in the photographs that were taken almost seventy years ago. The Author/Photographer Madonna Carter Jackson has selected over 200 photographs that document the varied influences, innumerous contributions of social, civic, and community pride. You will see an amazing visual display of pictures from the 1940's through 1980, some of streets and avenues that no longer exist in the one square mile town on the Jersey coast. Readers of all ages will enjoy and relate to the reminiscing and will without a doubt, have memories of their own sparked by the display of nostalgia regardless of where they live. African American's sought to find a better life during this period, and you will be able to see life being lived lovely through this pictorial journey as seen through the camera lens of Joseph A. Carter, Sr. (1917-1980) ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
Metro selling the units will help the city. The more contracts, the faster the building goes up c/o's issued (more ratables) and taxes collected. That building was WASTE for all this time. At least now it will dirve people to the boradwalk. Think about it, Metro is advertising, people will come to the sales office and then maybe walk around the borads. Very true, or somewhat at least. I suspect anyone going to the officve may take a walk around the boardwalk. Sure, theres nothing on the boardwalk (haha), but the idea that the people who are wanting in on the project want to walk the asbury boardwalk. It is a good sign! Their not just people who want a townhouse, or even if they are, at least we know they like the idea of the Asbury boardwalk. Curious to see what's going on. Do you think the people who bought those hi end units on Ovean ave. in Belmar acutally stepped foot onto the boardwalk? The office is no where near the project. Also, having the Metro Homes office on the boardwalk is a way to sell the Boardwalk. It's connects the two together. But, its agreeded that the pavillion would be better used for a Real reason. But, do you really think anything would have been done with that half of the Asbury Partners pavillion anyway? highly doubted. It's being put to a functional use, compared to nothing at all. - Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food Drink QA.
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
But, its agreeded that the pavillion would be better used for a Real reason. But, do you really think anything would have been done with that half of the Asbury Partners pavillion anyway? highly doubted. It's being put to a functional use, compared to nothing at all. Are you kidding? That pavillion seemed to be in fine shape -- certainly good enough that Asbury Partners chose to put their offices there several years ago. Meanwhile we have retail stores in pavillions with leaky roofs and bad plumbing. That pavillion could definitely have been used for other purposes. One of my biggest problems with Asbury Partners was them having their office space there. If you're in control of a billion dollar rennovation you could spend a hundred dollars on a nice sign for your business. Instead, they had a handwritten sign that looked straight out of the little rascals. That pavillion would have had plenty of chances for use. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Werner, do you have any inside info on the Fact that MM wants Lake ave. reopened? What are the chances of that acutally happening? Forgot who posted it, but they didnt come back at me with a reason behind what they said. It seemed like they had inside info fo sorts, not sure if that's posisable though charlie It was me and yes I have info. It is not only possible, but it was a big mistake to be closed in the first place. MM wants it and will/has already asked the city about it. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gary Wien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my biggest problems with Asbury Partners was them having their office space there. If you're in control of a billion dollar rennovation you could spend a hundred dollars on a nice sign for your business. Instead, they had a handwritten sign that looked straight out of the little rascals. Probably the same sign maker Larry used for his dad's place, Art's Ices. No menu - just a hand written sign. Partners' motto - Minimum In/Maximum Out. While Metro's use of the 4th Ave pavillion will no doubt draw some people to the boards, a restored building with a viable boardwalk use would draw more. Again, MM is trying to hit the ground running for this season and show some activity. They only get this season as a grace period in my book. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
Are you kidding? That pavillion seemed to be in fine shape -- certainly good enough that Asbury Partners chose to put their offices there several years ago. Meanwhile we have retail stores in pavillions with leaky roofs and bad plumbing. That pavillion could definitely have been used for other purposes. Asbury Partners only chose that pavillion as their offices because that was the past location of Ocean Mile. It was already set up. They did a few cosmetic changed and moved right in. There are still Ocean mile items from the past in there. The other pavillions are in bad shape, yes. The offfice pavillion is probably the best out of all of them. Although i suspect the pavillion behind the Berkely is i good shape too. Pretty sure its been sealed since the late 80's. - The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing.
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
Are you kidding? That pavillion seemed to be in fine shape -- certainly good enough that Asbury Partners chose to put their offices there several years ago. Meanwhile we have retail stores in pavillions with leaky roofs and bad plumbing. That pavillion could definitely have been used for other purposes. Asbury Partners only chose that pavillion as their offices because that was the past location of Ocean Mile. It was already set up. They did a few cosmetic changed and moved right in. There are still Ocean mile items from the past in there. The other pavillions are in bad shape, yes. The offfice pavillion is probably the best out of all of them. Although i suspect the pavillion behind the Berkely is i good shape too. Pretty sure its been sealed since the late 80's. - Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
It was me and yes I have info. It is not only possible, but it was a big mistake to be closed in the first place. MM wants it and will/has already asked the city about it. Oh all right, there you are. That's good to hear then. Hope it happens. - 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with theYahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut.
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
On Apr 9, 2007, at 2:11 PM, charlie wrote: Asbury Partners only chose that pavillion as their offices because that was the past location of Ocean Mile. Yeah, that was a good omen, wasn't it? It was already set up. They did a few cosmetic changed and moved right in. There are still Ocean mile items from the past in there. The other pavillions are in bad shape, yes. The offfice pavillion is probably the best out of all of them. Then why don't you think it would have been put to use had they not taken it? Isn't it easier to move people into a pavillion in good shape over ones in poor shape? Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Atlantic Yards Hit with Seventh Lawsuit by Sarah Ryley ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ), published online 04-09-2007 Opponents Ask Court To Make Project Start Review, Approval Process Over By Sarah Ryley Brooklyn Daily Eagle FORT GREENE — Opponents of the Atlantic Yards arena and high-rise development filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking an annulment of the project’s approval based on deficiencies in its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), bringing the tally of project-related lawsuits to seven. The plaintiffs, which include 26 community groups ranging from neighborhood block associations to the Sierra Club, will be asking state Supreme Court Justice Joan Madden (Manhattan) to stop demolition and construction until the case is resolved. If they win, the project would have to start the entire review and approval process over again, which could take years. Project developer Forest City Ratner Companies, the ESDC, the Public Authorities Control Board and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are all named as defendants. “The suit filed today by project opponents should come as no surprise to anyone, as the opponents have claimed publicly that their strategy is to sue early and often,” said FCRC Executive Vice President Bruce Bender. “[Yesterday]’s action is simply the latest in a long line of attempts to derail Atlantic Yards and the over 2,500 units of affordable housing, thousands of jobs for the community, job training programs, a new precedent for minority and women workers and contractors, and a new exciting home for the Nets [basketball team],” said Bender. “We believe that the opponents’ claims are without merit and we will prevail in court.” Daniel Goldstein, a plaintiff in one of two lawsuits challenging the project’ s use of eminent domain, said preparations “to challenge what we knew would be a flawed FEIS” have been three years in the making, “because we knew it would be predetermined who the developer of the project would be.” Goldstein is also the spokesman for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB), the group leading opposition to the project that is named in this lawsuit and two others. Central to arguments against the project is the fact that no other developers were seriously considered for redevelopment of the Vanderbilt Yards, situated at the intersection of Atlantic and Fourth avenues, and essential to the 22-acre project. “For nearly four years, we participated in an exhaustive public review process, involving hundreds of meetings with local leaders and officials, including numerous public hearings, as well as countless meetings with community representatives,” said Bender. “We have also complied with rigorous state and city requirements, resulting in what we believe is a better project.” Does an Arena Serve A ‘Civic Purpose’? The lawsuit also seeks a declaration that a privately-leased and operated sports arena does not meet the definition of a “civic project” under the Urban Development Corporation Act, which was established in the 1960s to fast-track urban renewal. The act gives the ESDC the power to issue bonds and grant tax abatements, condemn land and seize property through eminent domain, and to overrule local zoning laws without acquiring legislative approval for urban renewal-related projects. The ESDC has often used its authority to spur private development. The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and the redevelopment of Times Square, which both used eminent domain, and the World Trade Center Memorial Fund are a few examples. Opponents of the project said the Barclays Center — named after Barclays Bank purchased the naming rights for the Nets arena and immediately surrounding high-rises — is not a civic project because community groups would only have use of the arena for 10 events a year, at a prohibitively high price. Community groups would be charged $100,000 to hold events like high school graduations at the Barclays Center, according to a state-mandated financial analysis of the project. Other nights would be used for Nets basketball games and concerts. The lawsuit contends that “the home of a professional sports team and commercial venue [is] by no stretch of the imagination a ‘facility for educational, cultural, recreational, community, municipal, public service or other municipal purposes.’” Supporters of the project have argued that the affordable housing and jobs it provides would also serve a civic purpose. “Another delay in the Atlantic Yards project means delaying economic opportunity for many in the Brooklyn community,” said Delia Hunley-Adossa, chair of the committee overseeing the project’s Community Benefits Agreement. “Those opposing the project can afford delays, but what of the over 2,000 who are clamoring for jobs, the hundreds of minority and women-owned contractors
[AsburyPark] Re: Drug Testing in Schools
Not trying to be funny, but bring back the whack! These kids need guidance, that they don't get, or the parents are too afraid to punish, them. On the other hand, you have the torturers, like those foster parents, who starved those 3 kids! Kids today, will tell you, they will call DYFS, which I needed someone, to tell me what Difus, is! I kid you not! I didn't know what WELFARE, was, because when I was a kid, it was called RELIEF! When my Dad spoke about someone, who was on relief, I thought they had passed GAS! Okay, okay! I am just in the dark, still naive, no, stupid! --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, oakdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, 2fine4u sharon_b283@ wrote: I don't know if it's me, or what, but I have a totally different I was talking to some guy the other day who said his teacher took care of the problem kid himself. He had a big old college ring on, would turn it around, and whack the kid in the side of the head. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Asbury Boy,16, charged with stealing car
Wow, they start young in our town... Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 04/9/07 EATONTOWN Police said they took a 16-year-old Asbury Park boy into custody after they saw him unlock a stolen vehicle with a key and get inside. The owner of the 2004 Toyota reported the vehicle stolen to Asbury Park police on Friday. Eatontown Police Sgt. Mike Panchak located the Toyota on the same day, by tracking a Lojack vehicle recovery signal, according to Detective Sgt. Thomas Clayton. The officer found the vehicle parked in the Monmouth Mall lot, so Detective Edward Nelson set up surveillance, and he spotted the boy get into the car around 9:10 p.m., police said. The boy was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle. He was released to his parents. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [AsburyPark] Another Twist on Development
Werner, Any idea what that $150,000 fee we paid was for? Original Message Subj: [AsburyPark] Another Twist on Development Date: 4/9/2007 7:31:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com) Sent on: NY Times Article - excerpts: ...in the nine years since construction began that the schools are overflowing, property taxes are skyrocketing and the main streets are clogged. ...lent their construction manager to Asbury Park for a $150,000 fee. Last month, they sued the state Department of Education for money they claim was unfairly cut off The lost state aid might have become an afterthought if the township had been able to collect anticipated taxes from commercial property next to Town Center. Without the expected commercial taxes, residential property taxes in Washington Township rose 84 percent between 1998 and 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/nyregion/09smart.html? _r=1pagewanted=all or http://tinyurl.com/36ht3q Werner Yahoo! Groups Links ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 4th ave pav
Then why don't you think it would have been put to use had they not taken it? Isn't it easier to move people into a pavillion in good shape over ones in poor shape? i was stating facts and posting statements. i didn't post my oppion. but, i feel it would have most likley been left empty. how come it was never occupied in previous years? for some reason they chose pavillions in horriable shape. i dont know. - Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business.
[AsburyPark] sidewalk ramps on ocean ave.
It's funny how time works sometimes. I took some pictures of a few of the sidewalks ramps on Sunday. You know, the ramps that go from Ocean ave. up onto the sidewalks. I took them with reason to post them on here, but i never saved them onto my computer becasue i decided to wait a few more weeks. Anyway, to the point. ha ha. There are (were!) two ramps between 1st and 2nd that looked different then all the others. Couldn't figure out why. At first i thoguth they were speacial ramps for the disabled spots, but that didnt play out. These two ramps had the verticle blocks cutting in from the road out to the ocean. It's hard to discribe here. should have saved the pictures. Today i see these ramps are tore up, and a few more spots were cut out of the curb. I wonder if someone go in trouble for not having enough ramps? or is this the voice of MM somehow? Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Drug Testing in Schools
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, 2fine4u [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not trying to be funny, but bring back the whack! These kids need guidance, that they don't get, or the parents are too afraid to punish, them. On the other hand, you have the torturers, like those foster parents, who starved those 3 kids! Kids today, will tell you, they will call DYFS, which I needed someone, to tell me what Difus, is! I kid you not! I didn't know what WELFARE, was, because when I was a kid, it was called RELIEF! When my Dad spoke about someone, who was on relief, I thought they had passed GAS! Okay, okay! I am just in the dark, still naive, no, stupid! --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, oakdorf oakdorf@ wrote: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, 2fine4u sharon_b283@ wrote: I don't know if it's me, or what, but I have a totally different I was talking to some guy the other day who said his teacher took care of the problem kid himself. He had a big old college ring on, would turn it around, and whack the kid in the side of the head. _ Sharon, You are right.Spending Easter at my Mothers out in Jackson for several days brought back memories.I would never talk to my parents when I was growing like some kids do today.My neighbors could whack me for being bad.Then I would get whack when I got home.God Bless You Sharon you are a person Asbury Park is lucky to have.You should run for Council. Jim Grabe Just Another Veteran from Asbury Park. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Becket Fund Press Release on Lighthouse Mission V Long Branch
Lighthouse Mission Fights for Survival Mar 29, 2007 March 27, Philadelphia, PA – Today the Third Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the case of Lighthouse Institute for Evangelism v. City of Long Branch. Since 1994, Lighthouse has been seeking permission from zoning officials to provide social services and conduct worship services from their location at 162 Broadway. However, the City’s plans to redevelop this previously rundown section of the Jersey Shore City have so far excluded the Lighthouse Mission. “If the City were serious about cleaning up the area, they’d be more accommodating to religious groups like Lighthouse that provide valuable services to those in need,” said Anthony Picarello, Vice President and General Counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a public interest law firm that argued on behalf of lighthouse before the Third Circuit. “Instead, they’ve allowed theaters and bars galore while excluding Lighthouse, which would provide real benefits to the entire community.” The Third Circuit panel will rule on the Church’s claims that the city’s zoning ordinances, new and old, violate the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment as well as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). “RLUIPA says you must treat churches at least as well as secular assemblies, and that includes theaters and bars,” explained Picarello. “If the government is going to let people come together for drinks, they can’t distinguish between beer and communion wine.” Relevant Cases * _Lighthouse Institute for Evangelism v. City of Long Branch_ (http://www.becketfund.org/index.php/case/61.html) NEWS AND INFORMATION WITH A UNIQUE TWIST The Brown Report on the Electric News weeknights a 7 est._www.electricnews.com_ (http://www.electricnews.com/) ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
[AsburyPark] 4th ave pav
Here's an idea for it and should of been in the agreement. How about restoring it as a bathhouse - you know, one the public could use to shower and sh_t? The basement was used for lifeguard room, the upper floor for the bathhouse as was the basement. It had a tunnel that led out to the beach. What a concept,no? There's a building that has been misued for 35 years. Let's see if metro has better luck marketing their building. At least from the look of the design, it has a better chance. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Becket Fund Press Release on Lighthouse Mission V Long Branch
...If the government is going to let people come together for drinks, they can't distinguish between beer and communion wine amazing. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Keady in NYTimes
Hey did anybody else find this story featuring Jim Keady in the NYTimes on Saturday? The reporter is a longtime NYT staff guy, too. You can say what you want about Jim, but he sure is earnest! This also might help some people understand what Educating for Justice - Keady's company - actually does. This stuff that came up at that council meeting about Jim's business benefitting by his helping homeless people find a place to stay is really misguided. Maureen Well-Meaning but Misguided Stock Screens By JOE NOCERA In a small, packed meeting room at the Manhattan headquarters of TIAA- CREF, an earnest man named James W. Keady rose to make a speech. TIAA- CREF, as you probably know, is a huge financial services firm, with more than $400 billion in assets. Mr. Keady, 35, a former college soccer player with a master's degree in theology, is the founder of a group called Educating for Justice, which consists, essentially, of himself and his wife. It has a budget of $80,000. TIAA-CREF's primary mission is to manage the retirement accounts for over three million academics, researchers, hospital workers and other members of the nonprofit universe. (The initials stand for Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund.) Educating for Justice's mission is narrower: Mr. Keady wants to bring the giant Nike Corporation to its knees. Or at least to force Nike to drastically improve the pay and working conditions of the thousands of people in developing countries who work in the factories that produce its footwear. In 1997, Mr. Keady was forced off the St. John's University soccer coaching staff because he objected so strenuously to a multimillion-dollar deal the school was negotiating with Nike. He has made Nike his life's work ever since, even living in Indonesia for a while to better understand the working conditions of the factory employees. Nike executives feel certain that the wages earned by people producing Nike products are sufficient for meeting an individual's basic needs in the local towns where goods are produced, he said Tuesday at the TIAA-CREF mutual funds shareholder meeting, his eyes ablaze with passion. Unfortunately, based on Educating for Justice's ongoing research of the same, we are not as convinced. Like many activists, Mr. Keady was making his complaint to TIAA-CREF largely because of the firm's reputation for a kind of genteel activism. It also supports what's called socially responsible investing: that is, investing in companies that have strong records in areas like the environment and human rights, and avoiding companies with poor records. In 1990, in response to complaints by some of its academic clients who wanted to avoid investing in mutual funds that held oil, tobacco, military and other bad stocks, TIAA- CREF began offering its first socially screened investment product. It currently has two; one of them, the CREF Social Choice Account, is the largest socially responsible investing vehicle in the country, with $9 billion in assets. And it clearly plans to do more. A few weeks ago, TIAA-CREF came out with an updated policy statement on corporate governance that stressed its desire to engage with companies on governance, environmental, social and performance issues. One of its executives, John Wilcox, does nothing but manage the firm's work in this area. Indeed, after the meeting, Mr. Wilcox approached Mr. Keady, and they huddled for about 10 minutes. Mr. Wilcox listened respectfully, and offered to meet with Mr. Keady for a longer discussion. But then I spoke to Mr. Wilcox, and discovered something that surprised me. Nike, which had been kicked out of TIAA-CREF's socially responsible funds back when it was first engulfed in controversy over the treatment of workers in overseas factories, was reinstated in the summer of 2005. Which means that TIAA-CREF had come to the view that Nike had earned the right to rejoin the ranks of socially responsible companies. But what, exactly, was that judgment based on? I should concede right here that I've always harbored some suspicion about socially responsible investing. The longstanding complaint from skeptics is that it forces investors to accept lower returns because lots of rising stocks are excluded for dubious social good. But performance isn't really the problem. A number of socially screened mutual funds have done just fine, and the benchmark Domini 400 index, which is made up entirely of companies viewed as socially responsible, has actually outperformed the Standard Poor's 500- stock index over the course of its 16-year existence. Besides, most mainstream mutual fund managers don't consistently beat the market, so why should socially responsible fund managers be held to a higher standard? No, my problem is that socially responsible investing oversimplifies the world, and in so doing distorts reality. It allows investors to
[AsburyPark] Re: Podcast
Thanks, JJ and Sharon - I'm afraid podcasts are still limited to a finite group of people. And the phone in's are what the show was all about - that and having guests on; and I'm not sure how the multiple guests would work in a podcast format. I'd like to have a cable type show with guests, something that would be timely. Channel 77 is good for scheduled programs, but not breaking news. Can you imagine having to change the tape everytime the situation changes in Asbury? And that would be my obligation, right up until airing time - possibly 6 weeks after the actual taping. Anybody know anybody with pull? That's where my followers could really help out, even telling a station that they need the show. It seems a shame, there's so much information that needs to get discussed. Yet we have air time going to somebody like Imus - or the 101.5 guys today at 6. The guy describing how his wife cleans up after sex while he watches sports. Ewoo!! Thanks again, guys! Maureen --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, jerseyjohn99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maureen, Ever thought of podcasting? You basically have all the infrastructure in place, its simply a matter of submitting your streams to iTunes or podcastalley. http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html The good part is you're not subject to the FCC. Also, you can edit your show, aren't bound to set timelines, and can do it during a more convenient time. The bad part is you can't really take call-ins unless they're prearranged. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Restore881FM restore881FM@ wrote: Whatever happened to Asbury Radio? Well I thought you'd never ask, Allen. The weekly show was like doing a feature article a week and so took considerable time from my revenue producing work. For most of the past 6.5 years my freelance work suffered and so did my bank account. Just prior to the first FCC visit to WYGG, I took an office job. My boss allows me to work four weekdays and Saturday, affording me one weekday to do my freelancing. It's working out quite well. The same cannot be said for the show, which hasn't aired since Nov. 16th. This letter, below, that I sent to Sen. Menendez on March 20th, will explain the current status. I recently got a response from Cong. Frank Pallone to a similar fax I sent him, on Feb. 12th. He said his office had asked the FCC's enforcement bureau to look into it. If I don't hear anything by April 8th, I should give him another call. This isn't satisfactory since the station's temporary permit expires April 7th. Pallone had no response to that information. I know you've been critical of my show in the past, Allen, but I would hope that you and other critics could still appreciate the importance of this threat to free speech - and no, I still don't know who is behind this. March 20, 2007 Re. FCC Intervention in WYGG 88.1FM Dear Senator Menendez: I have had a radio show, Asbury Radio (previously Restore by the Shore and Restore Radio), on WYGG 88.1 FM, which would've been on the air 7 years this June. The station is a low-band, minority owned arrangement that broadcasts largely in Haitian Creole. (Abner Luima bought and held the license until recently.) In mid-November Steven Desena, a field engineer with the FCC based on Varick St., in NY, claimed to be driving by our studios at 601 Bangs Ave., in Asbury Park. Mr. Desena gained entrance to the building and examined the antenna without WYGG present. DeSena phoned the station manager, Jean Guy Henry, and pretended to be a cable installer who needed the transmitter turned down to work on the roof. He then summoned Henry to the roof and brow beat Henry to try to get him to turn off the transmitter. Eventually, according to Henry, Desena turned off the transmission himself, which Iâm told is a violation of FCC rules. The station remained off the air from just before Thanksgiving until February of 2007. Desena told Henry heâd have to move the station, which he did during January. The station was relocated to a house owned by and adjacent to the French Haitian church at 414 Asbury Ave. The FCC granted a temporary permit to allow the station back up on the air, but that permission expires in early April. The management gradually reintroduced programming to the station, with the exception of my show. Henry told me in March that heâs afraid that my show is the real target of the FCCâs attentions. (Desena visited again at the new location on Jan. 28th.) This makes three or four visits to a 100- watt station in roughly two months. Despite this, there is no record on the FCC's web pages for listing Notices of Apparent Violation. On a recent visit, Desena reportedly asked specifically about my talk show and, granted this is second hand, told Henry that it may be the publicâs right to talk
[AsburyPark] Re:what ever happened to - The Conspiracy To End Piracy
Thanks, Kevin and Dan - When you look at what's out there, there just isn't local talk, where anyone can call in and start a thread going. Granted, we had our guests and topics lined up each week, er, most weeks anyway. But we tried to keep it some portion each week open. The only format that I can think of even close is Jim Gearhardt. But he keeps it extremely narrow. Asbury's always been about punishing people who speak out. I remember when Barbara Lesinski tried to tell me about the recriminations that would fly. I thought she was exaggerating. Huh! Steve Adubato has a callin show on cable. It's usually politicians and reporters. But why couldn't Asbury Radio be done that way? Man, I'm babbling away here. Better get some shut eye. Thanks for listening... Maureen --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, dfsavgny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Brown jerseykev@ wrote: Maureen, the most important element of your production was the freedom that you allowed for people to speak their minds and profer their opinions. Additionally you providing opposition a voice - balanced with those they were in opposition to. Those in power, who have things they wish to keep secret or too complicated to understand, fear such forums. You should consider going live once a week online! I truly miss Maureen's show. Independent radio, and especially independet local talk radio, is an important local asset that is quickly dissappearing. Can't wait until you are back on the air waves. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [AsburyPark] 4th ave pav
The basement was used for lifeguard room, the upper floor for the bathhouse as was the basement. It had a tunnel that led out to the beach. Are you talking about the asbury partners building? Didn't know that was it's orignal use all those years ago are we talking about the same building? I know it was the candy store in the late 70's to --?-- on the southern end. Weren't the bathrooms located where the present one is now? Behind the empress and berkely? - No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started.
