[AsburyPark] The old Casino in Grand Theft Auto IV
My kid scored some points with me last night. Dad, come here - I forgot to tell you, they have that old building in Asbury, the casino in the game. Wait I'll show you. So he kills a couple more people, gets a cheat, steals a helicopter and takes me over and lands at the casino - the old one in AP - boarded up etc. A amazing graphics (inside as well). He's supposed to make a video of it for me - unless someone already did. The game itself is based on Liberty City/NYC the casino is set either in staten island or coney. I ahve to sit with him and have do another fly over...sick, right? Yea, someone gave it the name westdyke. From Wikipeida on the setting for this version: The Sprunk brewery is located here and the city is filled with strip-malls and condominiums. The state is infamous for its prison, Alderney State Correctional Facility located to the east of the Acter Industrial Park and an abandoned casino to the north (an exact copy of an abandoned casino in Asbury Park) in Westdyke. 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] Weekend Photos
Hi all, For those of you who didn't get around AP this weekend, I have posted a few (too cold to take a LOT) pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dapaw http://www.flickr.com/photos/dapaw Glenn [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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: Weekend Photos
Thanks again for your illustrative photography Glenn. Your comment regarding the carousel horses is spot on. Talk about salt on an open wound. Those lights on the heating plant remind me of the ones on the Yankee Clipper, the late, lamented seafood house next to the lighthouse in Sea Girt. They used similar lamps to illuminate the beach at night, which let anyone lucky enough to get window seats in the dining room watch the waves coming in while they dined. Curious as to what purpose the ones on the plant serve though. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, dapawprint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, For those of you who didn't get around AP this weekend, I have posted a few (too cold to take a LOT) pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dapaw http://www.flickr.com/photos/dapaw Glenn [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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] Power outage.....
Werner got his wish ): Driving back through ap,, maybe the FD should go after the Berkley for what appears to not have any emergency lighting. CH looked pretty dark as well - at least from outside. And for those of you that don't recall - it wasn't that long ago that driving down Cookman and Ocean Ave ALWAYS looked that dark. North Beach was lit up. BUT the best place I discovered to meet - WEGMANs. Fully lit parking lot and store was in full ops. Somehow, they get it while the rest of the world went dark. 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] Star Ledger: Asbury Park revival project still far from finished
Asbury Park revival project still far from finished by MaryAnn Spoto/The Star-Ledger Tuesday December 09, 2008, 6:28 PM http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/asbury_park_revival_project_s t.html A year ago, construction ground to a halt on luxury oceanfront condominiums in Asbury Park that had promised to usher in a revival of a city devastated by race riots, political corruption and economic woes. A harbinger of the national real estate disaster that was to come, the Esperanza should have been near completion today, but instead the same three stories stand bleakly against the backdrop of a beachfront awaiting tourists. The poured-concrete foundation hasn't changed since Hoboken-based Metro Homes gave the stop-work order a year ago Sunday, but the company's president insists he is pressing on with plans for a scaled- down version of the high rise. He said work could resume by next summer. Our project is far from dead, said Metro Homes president Dean Geibel. We're basically creating a whole new building. Held hostage for two decades by ups and downs of the housing market, the city is trying to buck current economic trends and continues to rebuild around the building that takes its name from the Spanish word for hope. Surprisingly enough, we're still bringing business into Asbury Park, said Tom Gilmour, director of commerce for the city. A lot of people who wanted to come here got turned off by the high prices and are back. Gilmour said Asbury Park has had 17 new storefronts, including seven new restaurants, open on the boardwalk since May. Another seven businesses opened downtown during that same time. A year ago, retail space in the city's downtown was slightly less than half full. Now it's about 60 percent occupied, he estimated. Last year, the boardwalk had a nearly 70 percent vacancy rate. Now it's maxed out, Gilmour said. Sales of condominiums at two new complexes bookending the oceanfront redevelopment zone had stalled after the real estate bubble drove prices skyward. Interest in those developments, Wesley Grove and North Beach, has resumed now that prices have dipped, Gilmour said. Reacting to the slowdown in the real estate market, City Manager Terence Reidy said, many developers have proposed converting space once designated residential into office. Others are considering creating interim parking lots until the market rebounds, he said. The good thing is no one's come to me and said, 'I'm pulling out,' Reidy said. That includes Metro Homes. Only three of the 16 stories had been built before the developer suspended work on the $100 million project. The city last year threatened to go to court to compel the developer to keep working but has since softened its stance. Talks with Madison Marquette, the developer of the boardwalk and the new owner of the Wesley Grove condos, about entering a joint venture to resurrect the Esperanza proved fruitless, Geibel said. With a new partner -- who Geibel declined to name -- Metro Homes is redesigning the project to shave expenses. Instead of having two towers separated by an outdoor pool, the building will have one L- shaped tower wrapped partially around the outdoor pool to the north and west. It will get a new name -- something that suggests the ocean, Geibel said. The new design will mean many of the 224 units have an oceanfront view, he said. But some of the amenities, such as an upscale restaurant, will be left on the drawing room floor, he said. Metro Homes had contracts for 70 of the units, which sold for between $400,000 and $2.3 million, before construction stopped. Geibel said all the deposits have been returned but some original buyers, including singer John Oates, are interested in buying into the new building. John Lidestri, an importer from Ringwood, used his returned deposit to help buy a restored seven-bedroom historic home within walking distance from the beach in Asbury Park. In retrospect, this was a better deal, because he got a bigger place for the nearly $1 million he was prepared to pay for the condo. And his taxes will be cheaper, said the 39-year-old father of two. Obviously it would be great for the community to see it come to fruition, he said. It would definitely enhance the image of the waterfront rather than to have a stalled construction site there. 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] The Lights are back on!
From 6:15 PM until 9:45, AP and surrounding neighborhoods were without power. Thanks for calling Glenn! I had my shortwave radio tuned to New Jersey 101.5, keeping up with the reports, the whirl of helicopters flying overhead, squad cars screaming up and down the street, scaring the BeJesus out of everyone, etc. Anyway, it appears we're out of danger! Reports of a transformer blowing up in Neptune, is what did 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: The Lights are back on!
I am never there when it is exciting... or am I? Jack had a Black Out Party! Well, I am taking creative liberties there. Glenn --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, sharon_b283 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From 6:15 PM until 9:45, AP and surrounding neighborhoods were without power. Thanks for calling Glenn! I had my shortwave radio tuned to New Jersey 101.5, keeping up with the reports, the whirl of helicopters flying overhead, squad cars screaming up and down the street, scaring the BeJesus out of everyone, etc. Anyway, it appears we're out of danger! Reports of a transformer blowing up in Neptune, is what did 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/
