It will be “Mischief Night” at the Stephen Crane House, 508 4th Avenue, Asbury Park on Wednesday, October 30, at 7 PM. We will continue our tradition of Edgar Allan Poe readings to celebrate both the Halloween season and Stephen Crane’s 153rd birthday. It seems strange that two great American authors with such wildly disparate […]
The Asbury Park & Ocean Grove Historical Societies present their annual NYC Holiday Tour! 1-Day Motorcoach New Yourk City Christmas Lights tour including lunch in Little Italy. Plus Rockefeller Center, Chelsea Market, High Line, & Bryant Park. Lavatory Motorcoach Transportation 3-Course luncheon included in Little Italy Visit Chelsea Market’s Shops & Boutiques Walk the High Line – An […]
The Asbury Park Historical Society is pleased to welcome its members, supporters and the community to its Annual Membership meeting at the Asbury Park Public Library on Thursday, January 16, at 6:30 PM. The Historical Society will discuss its goals for 2025 and opportunities for members to become involved in APHS committees and activities for the upcoming year. The […]
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 sublime “Tosca”, with Hildegard Behrens, Placido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil. Our doors open at 6:30 PM, with the program to start at 7 PM. Donations […]
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 Society The Asbury Park Historical Society invites artists and craftspeople to showcase their work on the Asbury Park Boardwalk August 17, 2025 Register for the […]
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 shaped the city’s past. “It offers a history of the city that is not frequently shared, the darker side of the city,” tour guide Lesley […]
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 literary giant, Willa Cather. At the age of 21, Cather met the 23-year-old Crane in Lincoln, Nebraska, and observed that Crane was carrying a copy […]
The Asbury Park & Ocean Grove Historical Societies present their annual NYC Holiday Tour! 1-Day Motorcoach New York City Christmas Lights tour including Rockefeller Center, Chelsea Market, High Line, & Bryant Park. Lavatory Motorcoach Transportation Visit Chelsea Market’s Shops & Boutiques– 1 HOUR Walk the High Line – An elevated rail line transformed into a […]
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 the arrival of the pandemic. So, this year we would like to present the 20th edition of "Season's Readings”: a compendium of mostly light-hearted stories, […]
