Sunset Avenue, Asbury, Farmers Market. Saturday 8/24/19. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
DORIS TROY: “Just One Look.”
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Gorgeous Saturday morning plus Sunset Farmers Market= a big crowd buying tomatoes, Italian breads, melons, pickles, Piri Piri spicy sauce and much more.
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park lifestyles, tagged Asbury Park farmers market at Sunset Avenue on August 24, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Sunset Avenue farmers market…..August in Asbury Park
Posted in Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Asbury Park lifestyles, tagged Asbury Park farmers market at Sunset Avenue on August 17, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Socializing at the market. Paul Goldfinger photograph.8/17/19 ©
Sunset Saturday market was busy. 8/17/19. Blogfinger photo © Very good heirloom tomatoes here.
This is the sort of small neighborhood events that OG needs to bring people together.
FYI: The Italian baker from Paterson has fine sfogliatella ( sea shells with crispy, flaky pastry, and inside there is sweet lemony cheese.) He also has fig bars and a terrific variety of authentic breads plus cheeses from Italy.
FRANK SINATRA:
The other side of A. Park: TAKA
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park, Asbury Park lifestyles, Blogfinger Presents, tagged 3 Little Maids From School, Taka Restaurant on July 29, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Taka, Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park. Paul Goldfinger photo. July, 2019.© click to enlarge.
If you would visit Cookman Avenue on a Saturday night, you would see many college age girls dressed up for bar hopping and fine dining. They might travel with guys, or they might walk about in groups of three or four.
4 little maids from school. Paul Goldfinger photo on the boards in Asbury Park. ©
So here is a song from the Mikado which addresses such a group:
D’OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY: From the Mikado.
Tutu or not tutu? That is the question.
Posted in Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Asbury Park lifestyles, Blogfinger Presents on April 27, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Saturday morning in A. Park at the intersection of Main St. and Cookman Ave. This tutu run is to benefit Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Monmouth and Middlesex Counties. 4/27/19 Paul Goldfinger photograph. © Click to enlarge.
Paul Goldfinger photo. 4/27/19. © Blogfinger.net
This is the first (pre-season) Blogfinger edition of “Girls In Their Summer Clothes.” Perhaps you were expecting short shorts, bikinis, black leggings, thongs, or summer dresses, but these runners were having fun with their colorful campy outfits, just right for running 2.2 miles in public.
REMINDER: THE NJ MARATHON will breeze through Ocean Grove on Sunday morning, April 28.
The race begins in Long Branch at 7:30, and Ocean Pathway/boardwalk will be near the end, so around 9-9:30 am in the Grove.
CAST OF A CHORUS LINE: “One”
“Some brightness on a dreary spring day..” Bob Bowné finds the light.
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park lifestyles, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged Bob Bowné on April 26, 2019| Leave a Comment »
A sign of the times in Asbury Park. April 4, 2017. By Bob Bowné. Special to Blogfinger.net.
SMALL POTATOES finding the direction to spring in Bob’s image:
A. Park serenity on the boards
Posted in Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Asbury Park lifestyles on April 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Dusk, Asbury Park boards. Paul Goldfinger ©. Blogfinger.net. Click image to enlarge.
SONNY STITT “At Last”
Best beach? Where’s Asbury?
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park lifestyles, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Asbury Park best shore town on March 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Asbury Park July 2016
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor@Blogfinger.net
I’ve come to the conclusion that all those “best” lists are created by payoffs. After all, how can Asbury Park be one of the world’s best beach towns, better than famous beaches in California, Australia and Florida?
As a result, we have ignored those lists lately, because the A. Park that we know is usually awarded top billing on those lists. The only list I ever saw with Ocean Grove was some years ago, when we were rated higher than AP as the best place for gay folks.
However, to those of you who are cynical, as I am, about this subject, I did find a list that excluded A. Park. Maybe the payoff was too high for the Cookman crowd and iStar’s publicity department
U.S. News & World Report 3/19/19: Best Places to live near the beach:
1. Melbourne
2. San Diego
3. Sarasota
4. Honolulu
5. Charleston, South Carolina
6. Fort Myers
7. Jacksonville
8. Pensacola
9. Santa Barbara, California
10. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
11. Tampa
12. Port St. Lucie
13. Daytona Beach
14. Virginia Beach, Virginia
15. Los Angeles
16.Corpus Christi, Texas
17. Miami
18. Salinas, California
19. Brownsville, Texas
20. San Juan, Puerto Rico
Here’s a link to a recent post on Blogfinger about this topic:
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Is Asbury Park the best or the worst?
Posted in Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Asbury Park lifestyles, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Asbury Park rankings on February 9, 2019| 1 Comment »
Ocean Grovers enjoy walking to downtown Asbury for restaurants, special events, music and a lively bar scene. Paul Goldfinger photograph for Blogfinger.net.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor@Blogfinger.net
In 2016 we posted an article about the praise being lavished upon A. Park.
Last spring Money Magazine named AP as having the second best beachfront in the US, ahead of many famous locations in California, Texas, etc. “Asbury Park offers the classic combo of beach and boardwalk,” the magazine says.
The Asbury Park Press also reported that list. Asbury has also been ranked high for the city’s “cultural scene.” In 2017 it was named the “coolest small town in America.”
But, not so fast. Asbury has recently been reported to have the second highest violent crime rate in the state. And, according to the AP Sun, the city has been named this February to the “top 50 worst cities to live-in across the nation.” Similar reports have been mentioned in articles in the AP Press and the AP Patch.
Among the statistics, the city is reported to be high in poverty rankings, low median incomes, and high median home prices.
So, which is it: best or worst?
Blogfinger: The best or the worst? “It depends on where you stand.”
NANCY LAMOTT: “Not Exactly Paris.”
Is Asbury Park as marvelous as they say? The AP chamber of Commerce says, “More than a million visitors came to Asbury Park last year (2016).”
Posted in Asbury Park lifestyles, Asbury Park news on Blogfinger.net, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Asbury Park best shore town on December 26, 2018| 5 Comments »
New York Times, July, 2016. Fake news. Photograph by Tony Cenicola NYT.
This is Asbury Park in December 2016. They want to be a year-round attraction, but that goal seems to be a stretch—or is it? Paul Goldfinger photo of the Asbury Beach near Ocean Grove. ©
A. Park. Sunday 3 pm 8/6/17. Beach and boards very busy. A long line waits for Korean food (MOGO). Cuban music wafts from Cubacan. Blogfinger photo. © Click to see more. This is a re-post from August, 2018, but it is a topic which interests us, and some may have missed it. —Paul
Heading to Asbury on the OG boards. 2018. Paul Goldfinger ©
A. Park near the ocean. Paul Goldfinger ©. 2018
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net.
It’s good to keep tabs on the neighbors. The “small city” just north of us is being treated to a media blitz that is designed to promote tourism to our “sister city” on the other side of the Casino. There is no doubt that the deluge of visitors to Asbury Park is increasing, and we are positioned awfully close to this rapidly expanding and increasingly “in-our-face” place. The Asburian invasion is real and is causing rising density and parking problems in the Grove.
What do you Grovers think about the way that Asbury Park is progressing? What is it adding up to, and how will it affect Ocean Grove? We have spoken about the AP connection to the Grove and about how these two much different towns could compliment each other.
The photograph top above was part of a NY Times article extolling the beach community of Asbury Park. The caption says:
Over the course of the last year or so, Asbury Park has been named to a variety of “best” lists including being named #1 as “the coolest small town in America” by Budget Travel Magazine.
Source: http://us.pressfrom.com/lifestyle/travel/-56239-asbury-park-named-coolest-small-town-in-america/
Travel site Thrillist named AP as among the “25 best beaches in America.”
USA Today said that the Asbury Hotel was the “best new hotel in America for 2016.”
Thrillist named AP to its list of “the top 13 beach destinations for tourists.”
Travel and Leisure magazine named AP as the “tenth best travel destination in the world.” It ranked higher than Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Daily Meal named the beach bar by Convention Hall as one of the “top 25 beach bars in America.” What in the world can you do with bloody Marys and clams on the half shell?
The New York Post said that Asbury Park “had finally made it” as a top tourist attraction in America. Here is a link to our recent article about what was said at the Post:
NY Post article on Asbury Park
Car rentals.com named AP #14 to its “20 most unique cities to visit in your 20’s.”
NJ.com chose AP as “the top beach in Monmouth County.”
Oh, does Ocean Grove get any respect? NJ.com made a list of “the best things to do in each of the Jersey Shore’s 47 towns.” Even Deal is there, a town with nothing to do, but OG? You guessed it; we were AWOL. But that’s probably a good thing if we want to lower density in the Grove.
VINCE GIORDANO AND THE NIGHTHAWKS “Darktown Strutters Ball” from HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. (A show about prohibition bootleggers in Atlantic City.)
