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The news about Asbury Park was so bad for so long, I ask people, ‘Is this the first time you’ve been here?’ And they say, ‘Yes.’ And when I ask them where they’re from, they say, ‘Bradley Beach,’ and I think, Yikes, how did that happen?
- Tom Gilmour, Asbury Park’s director of commerce, in this excellent NJ Monthly piece from mid-2009 detailing the city’s current state. Note that Bradley Beach, one of the beach towns to the south, is less than two miles away from Asbury.
