During the pre-Civil Rights era, Victor Green published “The Green Book” as a guidebook for African American travelers of places where they would be welcome. Asbury Park and Neptune were popular destinations. Architectural historian Jenny Shaffer, who is part of a team or researchers working on a public website devoted to the study of sites […]
The Asbury Park Historical Society presents A Crane House Garden of Verses, an evening celebrating poetry, essays and writers who articulate the feelings we cannot quite put into words. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
