[AsburyPark] What 's the status of....

2008-12-13 Thread New Beetoap


...the building just south of the bandstand building?

I looked at the webcam picture and it seems that the Esperanza sign is 
gone but the building is just whitewashed. Is anything in there yet?

I agree with some previous comments that its a waste of space and 
pretty silly to not renovate that building.

Are the developer offices and cat hotel still in there? Doesn't seem 
that there's much effort to get things done. Are they stopping because 
of litigation that was reported with the city?





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[AsburyPark] Re: The Lights are back on!

2008-12-13 Thread New Beetoap
I was really surprised to hear the power went out. I was glued to the 
radio and tv all night. No effect up here, although I was almost hoping 
so I could see what a real night sky looks like. I've been to the 
observaory off of 287 and its pretty cool.

BTW - there are light pollution rules in some towns in the area. Makes 
them much nicer.hint hint

The webcam of AP shown some really 'hot' lights shining out and up.


--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, sharon_b283 sharon_b...@... 
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.






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[AsburyPark] Re: Why is it we miss a simple attraction to AP???

2008-12-13 Thread New Beetoap
Good that someone actually goes to those meetings to report back. 
Thats where all the 'funny business' happens in most towns.

--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, wernerapnj wernera...@... 
wrote:

 --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, New Beetoap newbeetoap@ 
wrote:
 ... 
  From what Ive read that seems to have been the intent but AP got 
  screwed in that deal.
  
  --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, charlie oceanchuck@ wrote:
 ...
    I'm not up to date on how things were left with the 
  bandshell.  I'm still thinking work was promissed on the lower 
half, 
  and the upper half was set for a later date?
   
 ==
 
 As I recall from attending the Planning Board Hearing, The only 
approval for permanent 
 renovations was granted for the !st Ave Pavilion.
 
 The work on the 3rd and 5th Ave Pavilions was approved as Temporary 
pending the 
 submission of Permanant plans.
 
 Temporary was discussed as 5 years I believe. The work completed 
certainly does not 
 appear 'temporary' and it may be a loophole being used to avoid 
paying Property Taxes.
 
 Werner






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[AsburyPark] Re: Star Ledger: Asbury Park revival project still far from finished

2008-12-13 Thread New Beetoap
So its not just me that notices things are amiss... Like I said 
before... doing some reasearch in various media sources gives a 
different picture from the all is well view of some AP locals.

I'm surprised that the talk about the money/deficit/budget went 
nowhere. Well not really... guess everyone is too busy 'having fun' 
to worry about a bankrupt AP

(Yes that was a 'dig' - folks down there better wake up)

--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Jennifer jennifern...@... 
wrote:

 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.





[AsburyPark] Re: Don't Mess With Surfing Sophie (fixed link)

2008-12-13 Thread Jennifer
I think that NJ is the only state that has beach badges.  At least, 
I've never encountered badges anywhere else.  The law in NJ says, all 
tidal lands and water from the high water mark seaward is public. Access
may occasionally be restricted based on private ownership, shore 
armoring (bulkheads, groins, seawalls) and public safety issues.

http://tinyurl.com/66l6y7
That is a link to the public access study I found and quoted above.  

www.crabnj.com
There's an advocacy group called Citizens Right to Access Beaches 
(CRAB) that was founded when Point Beach's only municipally owned 
public access beach was developed into a supposedly upscale private 
community.  I say supposedly because it is so damn ugly.  Anyway, the 
upscale community claimed sole access to the beach and didn't want the 
great unwashed coming through to use their beach.  CRAB doesn't seem 
to want free beaches.  They don't want to lose the ability to get to 
the beach at all.  FYI - There's also history here.  Until about 25 
years ago, the Ocean county shore towns of Bay Head and Mantoloking did 
not allow non-residents on their beach.  I grew up within walking 
distance of the Bay Head beach, but I lived in Point Boro.  We weren't 
allowed on their beach during guarded hours.   A NJ supreme court 
decision changed that (Matthews v. Bay Head Improvement Association).  
Anyone can buy a badge in beautiful Bay Head now.  It's a bitch to park 
and you can't get a soda or use a bathroom, but you can go.  Maybe you 
can make friends with someone who owns a house and they'll let you use 
their bathroom.  

So I looked up Matthews v. Bay Head Improvement Association and here is 
the decision.  Apparently Sophie can sit on the dry sand.

In New Jersey the courts have recognized the public trust doctrine to 
give all residents access to the state's public trust land. Recently, 
the courts expanded the public's right to include use of the dry-sand 
beach (Matthew v. Bay Head Improvement Association, 471 A. 2d 355 
(1984)). 

In that case, town residents sued the beach association and beachfront 
property owners asserting that defendants denied public its right of 
access to public trust lands on the beaches in the municipality and its 
right to use private property fronting on the ocean incidental to 
public's right under the public trust doctrine. The court held the 
public must be given both access to and use of privately owned dry sand 
areas as reasonably necessary under the public trust doctrine. The 
court noted that it did not need to rely on legal theories used in 
other jurisdictions such as prescriptive easements or customary law. 
Rather it decided to simply modify the public trust doctrine to reflect 
the reality of the times that people need to use the dry-sand beach to 
enjoy the area below the high water mark. The court stated that [a]
rchaic judicial responses are not an answer to a modern social problem. 
Rather, we perceive the public trust doctrine not to be fixed or 
static, but one to be molded and extended to meet changing conditions 
and needs of the public it was created to benefit. 






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[AsburyPark] Asbury Library -Springsteen Flap

2008-12-13 Thread justifiedright
This guy has some strong opinions about AP and the Library.

Werner what do you think?

http://tinyurl.com/565qdo

Here is his post cut and pasted:

Friday, December 12, 2008
Bruce Springsteen Special Collection
Today I was surprised, then alarmed, to discover that Asbury Park 
Public Library holds an archival collection of over 10,000 Bruce 
Springsteen related items, mostly printed materials, all of it 
donated.

I learned from a newspaper article that the Friends of the Bruce 
Springsteen Special Collection had to return 1000 items they had 
removed for microfilming, for which they had received a grant. The 
FBSSC (founded by Backstreet Magazine editors) was instrumental in 
establishing the collection,  claimed they owned this particular 
material. Apparently, they do not. But they posted this on the FBSSC 
website: 
Over many recent months, The Friends of the Bruce Springsteen 
Special Collection have grown increasingly concerned over conditions 
at the Asbury Park Public Library, where the Collection is currently 
housed. We've attempted to resolve these concerns, and while doing 
so, felt it was in the best interests of the Collection for us to 
retain possession of over a thousand documents taken from the 
Library for microfilming, rather than return them to what may be an 
unsuitable environment
I'm not really interested in Bruce Springsteen archival material, 
but historical preservation does concern me. What I don't understand 
is why any serious collector thought, in 2001, that Asbury Park 
Public Library was a suitable repository for a Bruce Springsteen 
Special Collection. APPL is an understaffed, underfunded municipal 
library in a city that struggles to provide basic library services 
to its own residents. The library is not even involved in any major 
way in preserving the broader history of Asbury Park. Independent 
historical societies  private investment do most of that work. 
Asbury Park has no museum dedicated to its history. The elected 
government of Asbury Park has a shameful record of preserving 
evidence of the city's true glory days from the late 19th Century 
through the 1920's,  can take small credit for any economic 
resurgence. You have to go to Ocean Grove to get a sense of what 
Asbury looked like 50 or 100 years ago.

I'm not blaming Asbury Park Public Library, but that city 
institution  its trustees are stuck with a job suited to the 
library at Monmouth University or even Brookdale Community College. 
APPL can record the fact of the archived material into their 
computer catalogue system, but they are not equipped to store, 
manage  preserve a growing archive collection, or digitally scan 
the material, or deal with donations from around the world, or 
adequately service people wishing to access the material, in person 
 off site, for purposes of research. Mere sentiment or civic pride 
about Bruce Springsteen  Asbury Park are unacceptable rationales. 
The collection has little real monetary value unless the library 
broke it up  sold it off, provided there were buyers. It is a 
burden to the library. The Bruce Springsteen Special Collection 
needs a better permanent home.









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[AsburyPark] Convention Hall Xmas Party for National Guard featured...

2008-12-13 Thread MarioAPNJ
Great picture from Dec. 7,
 
A Christmas party at Convention Hall in Asbury Park for the families of  the 
New Jersey National Guard serving in Iraq,
 
accompanying this article from NJ p.1 in tomorrow's NYT.   
_http://tinyurl.com/6gnxek_ (http://tinyurl.com/6gnxek) 
 
 
Guard Families, on Their Own for the Holidays, Dig  Deep: 
 
 
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/michael_winerip/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
 
 
ASBURY PARK, December 14, 2008,Parenting | The Home  Front 
_Parenting  - The Home Front - Guard Families, on Their Own for the Holidays, 
Dig Deep -  Series - NYTimes.com_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/nyregion/new-jersey/14Rparent.html?_r=1ref=nyregionpagewanted=all)
  
 
 
 
 
 


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[AsburyPark] Boardwalk observation - Why are the remains of Halloween maze still there

2008-12-13 Thread Jack Pitzer
I'm trying not to complain, but why would MM leave the remains of the hay maze, 
and it's 
signs still sitting there? The signs are all ripped up and laying all over the 
place. The maze is 
partially taken apart, but Halloween was weeks ago.
With the concept of trying to make the boardwalk a year round retail and dining 
destination, 
does it really have to look like a perpetual construction site, with the 
remains of an attraction 
falling apart for all to see?




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Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Don't Mess With Surfing Sophie (fixed link)

2008-12-13 Thread Mike Hemeon
Yes you have public access but the beach badge is for your groinbulkhead or 
seawall.





From: Jennifer jennifern...@yahoo.com
To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 9:04:24 AM
Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: Don't Mess With Surfing Sophie (fixed link)


I think that NJ is the only state that has beach badges. At least, 
I've never encountered badges anywhere else. The law in NJ says, all 
tidal lands and water from the high water mark seaward is public. Access
may occasionally be restricted based on private ownership, shore 
armoring (bulkheads, groins, seawalls) and public safety issues.

http://tinyurl. com/66l6y7
That is a link to the public access study I found and quoted above. 

www.crabnj.com
There's an advocacy group called Citizens Right to Access Beaches 
(CRAB) that was founded when Point Beach's only municipally owned 
public access beach was developed into a supposedly upscale private 
community. I say supposedly because it is so damn ugly. Anyway, the 
upscale community claimed sole access to the beach and didn't want the 
great unwashed coming through to use their beach. CRAB doesn't seem 
to want free beaches. They don't want to lose the ability to get to 
the beach at all. FYI - There's also history here. Until about 25 
years ago, the Ocean county shore towns of Bay Head and Mantoloking did 
not allow non-residents on their beach. I grew up within walking 
distance of the Bay Head beach, but I lived in Point Boro. We weren't 
allowed on their beach during guarded hours. A NJ supreme court 
decision changed that (Matthews v. Bay Head Improvement Association) . 
Anyone can buy a badge in beautiful Bay Head now. It's a bitch to park 
and you can't get a soda or use a bathroom, but you can go. Maybe you 
can make friends with someone who owns a house and they'll let you use 
their bathroom. 

So I looked up Matthews v. Bay Head Improvement Association and here is 
the decision. Apparently Sophie can sit on the dry sand.

In New Jersey the courts have recognized the public trust doctrine to 
give all residents access to the state's public trust land. Recently, 
the courts expanded the public's right to include use of the dry-sand 
beach (Matthew v. Bay Head Improvement Association, 471 A. 2d 355 
(1984)). 

In that case, town residents sued the beach association and beachfront 
property owners asserting that defendants denied public its right of 
access to public trust lands on the beaches in the municipality and its 
right to use private property fronting on the ocean incidental to 
public's right under the public trust doctrine. The court held the 
public must be given both access to and use of privately owned dry sand 
areas as reasonably necessary under the public trust doctrine. The 
court noted that it did not need to rely on legal theories used in 
other jurisdictions such as prescriptive easements or customary law. 
Rather it decided to simply modify the public trust doctrine to reflect 
the reality of the times that people need to use the dry-sand beach to 
enjoy the area below the high water mark. The court stated that [a]
rchaic judicial responses are not an answer to a modern social problem. 
Rather, we perceive the public trust doctrine not to be fixed or 
static, but one to be molded and extended to meet changing conditions 
and needs of the public it was created to benefit. 

 


  

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[AsburyPark] Two River Times - Review of AP's SCROOGE IN ROUGE

2008-12-13 Thread Tom
Two River Times 

December 12, 2008

 

Scene On Stage

 

A Zany Christmas Carol 

In Asbury Park

Check your bah-humbug at the door. . .

By Philip Dorian

And now for something new and different: a musical adaptation of 
Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.  Say what?  New and different?  
There's one around every corner, isn't there?

Well, yes, but they're not like ReVision Theatre's Scrooge in Rouge, 
running through December 28 in Asbury Park.  And 'thanks' are 
definitely in order for this irreverent and outrageously funny tale 
of ye olde Scrooge.

What to do when all but three , Lottie Obligato (Linda Marie Larson), 
Vesta Virile (Katherine Pecevich), and Charlie Schmaltz (Doug 
Shapiro), to play all 23 roles.

And healthy they are.  The three careen through the Ghosts of 
Christmases Past, Present and Future; various Cratchits; numerous 
Fezziwigs; and assorted other Victorian Londoners.  The result is a 
fast-paced 90 minutes with lively song-and-dance and about a hundred 
gags that are corny, bawdy or a combination thereof.  That nearly all 
(nobody's perfect) are laughworthy is a tribute to a performers and 
to writers Rich Graham (book and lyrics) Jeffery Roberson 
(additional  material) and Yvette Hargis, who is credited with other 
interesting bits, which is the year's most intriguing credit. 

Ms. Pecevich plays Ebeneezer and a couple of other bit parts along 
the way.  She's as accurate (if offhand) a Scrooge as I've seen 
locally.  Out of character, commenting in asides to the audience, 
she's a droll delight.  (If walk this way isn't among your favorite 
comic bits, go watch Miracle on 34th Street again.)

Mr. Shapiro's antic take on Marley's Ghost is supremely funny, but 
darned if he doesn't top himself with his loose-limbed Fezziwig 
nephew.  (His manic cavorting would drive even a kind-hearted uncle 
away.)

You cannot acquire pinpoint-perfect timing.  Like Ms. Larson, you 
must be born with it.  Introducing the show with the wrong author's 
name – an excellent joke so obvious I'm surprised I never heard it 
before – and slipping in and out of a dozen fully realized roles, 
including a pickle (see it to believe it), she doesn't miss a beat – 
of music or comedy.

Musical director Justin Stoney is positioned off to the side with his 
piano, where he provides faultless accompaniment and an occasional 
impertinent out-of-the-blue remark, and choreographer Mimi Quillin 
keeps the flailing arms and legs under control (barely).  Costumer 
Abby Walton deserves co-star status.  It's not just the number – 23 
outfits for 23 characters – that impresses.  The outlandish styles 
and even the colors provide a comic context on their own.

The key to staging a deceptively loose show like Scrooge in Rouge 
lies in balancing control with freedom.  Michael Barakiva's direction 
is disciplined, but not at the expense of devil-may-care.  (His rest-
cure is progressing nicely, I hear.)

A song lyric promises fancy scenery and acting with panache. Kip 
marsh's sets might not be fancy, but you'll fancy the clever devices 
that enhance the goings-on.  (An upright bed on the back of a door?  
Why not?)  As for panache, flamboyant confidence of style or 
manner, that's an understatement!

Scrooge in Rouge runs through Dec. 28 at the refurbished VFW Hall, 
701 Lake Avenue, Asbury Park.  Performance are Thurs-Sat at 8 pm (no 
performance Dec. 25); Sun. at 7 pm; matinees Sat. Dec 27 at 3 pm and 
Sun. Dec. 28 at 3 pm.  For information and tickets ($25 - $35): 732-
455-3059 or online at www.revisiontheatre.org.





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[AsburyPark] APP PBA #6 Clothing for Kids -- Tomorrow @ The Harrison

2008-12-13 Thread Michael W. Brim
Please join The Harrison and the Asbury Park Police PBA #6 for an afternoon
of food, fun and TV's to Help the
children of Asbury Park!

Bring new or lightly used winter clothing for Xmas all children sizes
needed.

At: The Harrison, 716 Cookman Ave., Asbury Park

Date: Sunday, December 14th

Time: 1:00PM-5:00PM

Items to be distributed by the Asbury Park Police PBA #6

Donations accepted anytime  Cash Donations also welcome



If you can't make it tomorrow - drop them off tonight!!

 

For additional information call: 732-774-2200 or 732-774-2000


Posted for The Harrison and the AP Police PBA #6



 

Michael W.  Brim

321 Sunset Avenue, Unit 5F

Asbury Park NJ 07712-5550

Cell: 732-996-8160

 



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