[AsburyPark] 2003
Asbury is a ghost town, I spoke to a number of Cookman retailers, business is down since the meters went into effect. It reminds me of 8 years ago when we bulls some stores and rented them, then America's cup opened and we sat there waiting for a customer to come in...and waited and waited and waited. The merchants that are still there, and almost all the current merchants are hard working business people, not weekend warriors looking for a tax write off by opening a store...and then never opening. The high taxes, the extraordinary cost of opening a business in AP, and now the parking meters that don't even work are a detriment to downtown Asbury in a huge way. Occupay AP should be railing against this travesty of a money grab by the powers that be in city hall. 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: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: 2003
Many of you are personalizing the situation. The fact is that if you talk to the business owners who rely on their business to live, they are down. Some of them are holding out hope that in the long run the parking will pay off. Before the parking went into effect I know a couple of downtown residents that parked 2 or 3 cars on Cookman, leaving them there for days at a time. Similarly, we used to watch the owners/employees of stores park their cars in front of their stores all day, yet they still complained they had no business. And while we all know that the riots of July 4 are the traditional date that started the decay of Asbury as a downtown shopping mecca, it was the malls and free parking that had an equally bad affect on downtowns in Red Bank and Long Branch as well as Asbury. And it has been mentioned, where is the marketing for downtown AP? There is none, other than a weekly huge email from the city, that basically promotes bars and restaurants. All, 100% of the business owners I know and have recently spoken with about the parking are/were in favor of the paid parking, but that doesn't change the fact that they are going to have a helluva time coming up with the Nov 1 rent check. And there is another issue that is not being discussed. The business owners and their employees who work after dark, who work until 10PM and later. They now have to walk 3-4-5 blocks to their cars at night. I have been told that one person has already been accosted and robbed while walking to their car. While paid parking is a fruitful plan, the fruit needs to start out as seeds, or it's artificial; the implementation of park; The Parking Plan, is either non-existent, or artificial. 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: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Occupy Asbury Park/Occupy Bond St. Bar
How about that Jack, we agree on something politicalmiracles do occur... 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: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Sure cure for the Asbury blues.
Check out this article: Hookers in Germany must plug prostitution parking meter to work on the streets http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/09/01/2011-09-01_hookers_in_germany_must_plug_prostitution_parking_meter_to_work_on_the_streets_b.html --Sent from The Daily News Dennis 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: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Honeymoon in Asbury Park
Walk a mile in my shoesSharon and Keady sparked a race riot on the list and that is hardly a bad thing. Each one one of them hit a hot point while pressing their agenda. Neither of them intentionally or otherwise trying to offend. The sad reality is that crime across our country is way up, I understand that spring lake has had more crimes committed this summer than the past ten years combined. The cause? Heroin. Addiction. Poverty. Two of the three no know racial boundaries. Poverty does. Sharon stated that 12% of the population are Black. Keady can surely tell us what % of the population are in jail and commit the bulk if the street crime across our country. Sharon is living proof that we are what the constitution says; created equal. But for Asbury Park the sad harsh reality is that there is a generation of lost displaced backs against the walk mostly Black males who have turned to gangs and street crime because they have no alternative, they seemingly have no choice. This despite fantastic parents like Sharon that have led exemplary lives of hard work and toil and service to their fellow man, only to see their sins and daughters besmirch their good names. So what's the point and what's the solution? Because in Asbury Park you keep your eyes open wide not get caught in a situation where a young man with a gun wants more than you got. As Asbury has moved forward with restaurants and clubs and shops all designed for upper middle class rich people, the streets are still littered with poor lost souks he'll bent on destruction. The solutions to make Asbury a safe, crime free community are complex and difficult and they start with leadership at the highest levels working together. In the schools, in the religious organizations and the local government the leadership has to come together and start the arduos process of healing and growth. So far that ain't happening but talking about it here and there and everywhere is at the very Lear a start. 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: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Paid parking on 1st Ave. is a complete failure with an unexpecte
Cripes Hinge, pay the stinkin' 30 bucks and park in front of your house. You live in a broke city that is doing everything it can to create revenue. 30 bucks solves all your problems. 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: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Disgraceful
Disgraceful is as disgraceful does. All the nonsensical yakking about coming Back destination location and the art scene and the food scene don't mean a thing until the youth of Asbury Park are reined in, provided a safe, clean and wholesome place to grow and play and learn. And that starts in the schools and the AP school system is such a mess it makes the powdered and made up boardwalk and downtown seem like real deals. The only time the community rallies around the kids of Asbury Park is when there is some kind of athletic success. Protests , marches, parent demonstrations over sports, but have there been any such actions over the education of the same kids? Huge salaries to administrators to NOT come to work. Athletic Directors ripping off the kids but again all that matters is if the kids are winning games. Owning property in Asbury Park costs a fortune in property taxes, and young couples who are looking for a great place to live can't or won't choose Asbury Park because the school system flat out sucks. Come to Asbury Park and it's so easy to celebrate the musical legacy, a true musical legacy on a par with the likes of Memphis. But what of the legacy of Asbury Park High School. Other than slight mentions of Frank Budd every now then, how many know of the brilliant athletic legacy of Asbury Park? The generations that built that legacy are aging and passing on, all but forgotten, I understand the trophies and banners they won competing against the great high schools of North Jersey are long missing from the halls of one of the most beautiful high schools in the state. You want to really restore Asbury Park to it's former glory, make it a great place for families to raise their children, start at Kindergarten and don't stop until the graduating classes of APHS are known for more than a conference championship or two. Build the system from ground up and throw the corrupt and self serving crooks out of the school system. Make the entire Asbury Park school system, not just a team or two, worthy of celebration. And stop dissing the hard working volunteers who give their heart and souls to fixing a completely broken system that has been so mis-managed it could cause the closing of the once mighty APHS. 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: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] a bit of astute back up; perspective
March 16, 2011, 1:47 pm Grant Hills Response to Jalen Rose By GRANT HILL Associated Press Grant Hill currently plays for the Phoenix Suns. The Fab Five, an ESPN film about the Michigan basketball careers of Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson from 1991 to 1993, was broadcast for the first time Sunday night. In the show, Rose, the shows executive producer, stated that Duke recruited only black players he considered to be Uncle Toms. Grant Hill, a player on the Duke team that beat Michigan in the 1992 Final Four, reflected on Roses comments. I am a fan, friend and longtime competitor of the Fab Five. I have competed against Jalen Rose and Chris Webber since the age of 13. At Michigan, the Fab Five represented a cultural phenomenon that impacted the country in a permanent and positive way. The very idea of the Fab Five elicited pride and promise in much the same way the Georgetown teams did in the mid-1980s when I was in high school and idolized them. Their journey from youthful icons to successful men today is a road map for so many young, black men (and women) who saw their journey through the powerful documentary, The Fab Five. It was a sad and somewhat pathetic turn of events, therefore, to see friends narrating this interesting documentary about their moment in time and calling me a bitch and worse, calling all black players at Duke Uncle Toms and, to some degree, disparaging my parents for their education, work ethic and commitment to each other and to me. I should have guessed there was something regrettable in the documentary when I received a Twitter apology from Jalen before its premiere. I am aware Jalen has gone to some length to explain his remarks about my family in numerous interviews, so I believe he has some admiration for them. In his garbled but sweeping comment that Duke recruits only black players that were Uncle Toms, Jalen seems to change the usual meaning of those very vitriolic words into his own meaning, i.e., blacks from two-parent, middle-class families. He leaves us all guessing exactly what he believes today. I am beyond fortunate to have two parents who are still working well into their 60s. They received great educations and use them every day. My parents taught me a personal ethic I try to live by and pass on to my children. I come from a strong legacy of black Americans. My namesake, Henry Hill, my fathers father, was a day laborer in Baltimore. He could not read or write until he was taught to do so by my grandmother. His first present to my dad was a set of encyclopedias, which I now have. He wanted his only child, my father, to have a good education, so he made numerous sacrifices to see that he got an education, including attending Yale. This is part of our great tradition as black Americans. We aspire for the best or better for our children and work hard to make that happen for them. Jalens mother is part of our great black tradition and made the same sacrifices for him. My teammates at Duke all of them, black and white were a band of brothers who came together to play at the highest level for the best coach in basketball. I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court. It is insulting and ignorant to suggest that men like Johnny Dawkins (coach at Stanford), Tommy Amaker (coach at Harvard), Billy King (general manager of the Nets), Tony Lang (coach of the Mitsubishi Diamond Dolphins in Japan), Thomas Hill (small-business owner in Texas), Jeff Capel (former coach at Oklahoma and Virginia Commonwealth), Kenny Blakeney (assistant coach at Harvard), Jay Williams (ESPN analyst), Shane Battier (Memphis Grizzlies) and Chris Duhon (Orlando Magic) ever sold out their race. To hint that those who grew up in a household with a mother and father are somehow less black than those who did not is beyond ridiculous. All of us are extremely proud of the current Duke team, especially Nolan Smith. He was raised by his mother, plays in memory of his late father and carries himself with the pride and confidence that they instilled in him. The sacrifice, the effort, the education and the friendships I experienced in my four years are cherished. The many Duke graduates I have met around the world are also my family, and they are a special group of people. A good education is a privilege. Just as Jalen has founded a charter school in Michigan, we are expected to use our education to help others, to improve life for those who need our assistance and to use the excellent education we have received to better the world. A highlight of my time at Duke was getting to know the great John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor of History and the leading scholar of the last century on the total history of African-Americans in this country. His insights and perspectives contributed significantly
[AsburyPark] Re: New Aniversary...
Thank you Helen, that was a brilliant post! 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: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] reality is a woman
Gabrielle wroteA thriving restaurant/entertainment economy. Just where are you describing there Gabie? [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:asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Sing Out!
I learned most of what I know and love about music from 2 people. One is Vin Scelsa, original WNEW-FM DJ and the other is Bruce Springsteen. Vin is the guy who was on the awful night John Lennon was shot. Vin, to me, has the greatest ear of any DJ ever. Springsteen, we all know the story. I was at the Springsteen show the night John Lennon was shot. They told the band at the break what happened and they still came out and performed, we in the audience didn¹t find out until after the show. Through al these years of listening to these 2 guys do their music I never had any idea what their politics were and I had no care. The last election changed that. Suddenly, Scelsa started every show with an anti-Bush rant that harbored on hateful. Even more distressing was Bruce playing guitar on John Kerry¹s stage and also bashing Bush and pleading for every vote for John Kerry. According to Springsteen, the last election was the most important of our lives and our history and, it seemed, Bruce foresaw an awful world if the evil Bush got re-elected. Back then I felt that Bruce had the right to speak his mind and express his political point of view. Many of us who had never jumped into the political arena were doing the same thing. I am pretty sure this is all a fallout from 911. It wasn¹t until I saw Springsteen on-stage at that Kerry rally playing our sings that we grew up with that we made famous that I lost that overwhelming zeal for Springsteen. I know a lot of people who feel the same way. We still respect the man, we hold him in the highest esteem as the reigning king of rock and roll, but it¹s simply not the same, the blind devotion suddenly could see past the darkness on the edge of town and quite frankly, it wasn¹t as inviting a place as it once was. With Scelsa it was a lot different. I tried like hell to get past the political rants but couldn¹t and eventually, and still, I no longer listen to this great musicologist who is on WFUV on Saturday nights and also on Sirius. Why, simply it all boils down to a simple fact. I don¹t agree with him anymore. Another simple fact, if Bruce was ranting for McCain, Tommy never would have said shut up and sing. Bruce is playing his guitar, this time for Obama, but at least he is not using HIS stage to politic. Scelsa uses his stage, I guess Madonna is also, and it simply sucks to pay big bucks to get entertained by a musician and end up being [reached to, especially when you don¹t like what the preacher is saying. The the ladies on The View, and the pop stars like Bruce and Madonna have no more political credibility than any of us I feel is an undeniable fact. That they are Americans and are therefore entitled to state their point of view also applies to every one of us. That they were so simple minded as to not realize they could be turning off 1/2 of their audience is a great surprise to me. Meanwhile, I find it a shame that we can¹t carry on a heated, in-depth political debate about this major election that has the entire world watching what we Americans will do. This election is undoubtedly going to affect each and every one of us. The more information we have and the more we kick that information around, the better the chances of our getting it right. So far, I have not heard one person convince me that either of the candidates is even close to being the right person to lead America out of this fiscal crisis in the age of global terrorism. Any thoughts? [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] Giants Football List
I am sure there are a few NY Giants football fans here. If you would like to join a list to kick it around please check it out: http://secure.stretchinternet.com/demo/games.php?user=coastalo=cal_stampsd =today [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/
