APHS Events

Native American trail, Dutch farm road, free Black homesteads, and Washington’s march route during the British evacuation, Bowery became the main street of immigrants & the working class. NYC’s 1st entertainment district, it has seminal links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Harry Houdini, and modern tattooing. It later became an iconic skid row, but reemerged and helped foster Abstract Expressionism, Beat literature, Free Jazz, and punk rock.

On Wednesday, August 13th, at the Stephen Crane House (508 4th Avenue) the Asbury Park Historical Society will be screening a filmed 1985 New York Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini’s […]

In honor of Asbury artist Ray Sternesky who passed away March 2, 2021. Ray donated both his artwork and, with his beloved wife Dolly, time to The Asbury Park Historical […]

The Dark City: True Crime Walking Tour peels back the layers of Asbury Park’s glittering seaside image to reveal its untold underbelly with stories of murder, mystery, and mischief that […]

It's fascinating to consider the connection between two renowned American authors with such distinct writing styles. The link between Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen Crane was first noted by another […]

For a couple of decades beginning in 2001, Christmas at Asbury Park’s Stephen Crane House (508 4th Avenue) has centered around our "Season's Readings” program. That tradition ended along with […]

Please join the Asbury Park Historical Society for our Annual Membership Meeting Thursday, January 22, at 6:30 p.m. at the Asbury Park Public Library, located at First and Grand Avenues. […]

Calling All Sweethearts - For a Movie Showing, Monday, February 16 at 3 pm, at the Stephen Crane House, 508 Fourth Avenue, Asbury Park. Asbury Park Historical Society's cherished Frank […]