Main Avenue, OG, 9 pm Friends singing loudly–full of life. 5/28/22. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click once to enlarge.
A crowd develops at Days. 9 pm, Saturday night. It is quiet as the line edges forward. Everyone is patient because they anticipate something special. Paul Goldfinger photo.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net. May, 2022.
Main Avenue was quiet at 9 pm on Saturday night 5/28/22. It’s the Memorial Day weekend.
The concert was over, and a long line had developed at Days. Seagrass was winding down as was the pizza shop.
The sound of music was heard wafting softly from Asbury Park. Nagles remains shuttered, and that wonderful Saturday night presence is missed.
And then there’s always window shopping:
The Comfort Zone on Main Avenue. Photo by Eileen Goldfinger. ©
A few teenagers moved quickly west on Main, singing and chattering as they went by.
Not much to be expected of a Saturday night scene in May at the Grove but……
But for many Grovers, that’s how they like it. Night life rings true in A. Park; here it’s different…..
Here you can find satisfaction just walking on the boards, strolling downtown, patrolling our windy streets, or merely enjoying friends and family on our porches.
It could be lonely, but maybe a knock on the door could change things dramatically. Ask Frankie:
FRANK SINATRA.
The music from Asbury was as loud as if we were in the audience instead of our porch. It was very disturbing, and we miss being able to sit on the porch evenings and enjoy Ocean Grove’s quietude.
It’s ruined our weekend evenings and won’t be going away. Way too loud. Very sad.
Althea: Thank you. I agree. But, as you point out, the audio volume does vary depending on your location, and it did seem faint where we were on Main Avenue.
When we were shopping for a house in the Grove in 2000, we found a beauty on Lake Avenue, but we also found out, even then, before the “renaissance” of A. Park, that there were concerns about loud music coming from the Asbury side. For that reason we looked elsewhere.
I recall reading about the Festhalle’s application to build, and those developers promised that their music would be quiet and would stop at, as I recall, 10 pm.
We live at the North End, and the “sound of music” is easily heard depending on the source location.
We also heard that obnoxious “music” during the concert, and I wondered why the ushers didn’t go over there to ask for respectful quiet until the concert’s end (it was about one hour).
If the CMA is going to present live music, then they must must make some demands over in A. Park. It is unfair to the performers, and we should expect some neighborliness from the Asburians.
And, by the way, have you seen the CMA’s summer schedule? They will have bonfires on the beach for teens every week.
Will they make any noise, and what noise will be generated by the new commercial North End? There will be a hotel—will there be any parties there?
Has Neptune’s Planning Board considered that as well as other lifestyle issues including parking?
Paul Blogfinger.net
In your recap of Saturday night in Ocean Grove, you state “ The sound of music was wafting softly from Asbury Park.”
It was anything but soft. Sitting in the Great Auditorium to hear the concert of Patriotic Music by OG’s wonderful band you could hear the AP “soft music” blasting through the auditorium.
After the concert I returned home after 9:00 pm with my doors and windows closed and my TV on. The music from AP was so incredibly loud I still could hear it clearly. Saturdays nights if not other weekend evenings have become a “noise event”. Sitting on my porch on a lovely summer night has sadly become a thing of the past due to this. Some night we get dual noise events, again not softly, but blasting from the AP Festhalle and the outdoor Stone Pony.
Those who live on the south side of OG are not effected by this but if you reside in the north side of OG it is nothing less than noise pollution. If this situation was in reverse, and OG continually bombarded AP each summer and fall weekend night , something would be done to address this. . The comments I receive from my OG community friends is , “ glad I don’t live on the north side of town.” Check it out for yourself.