But would Bruce come? The question echoed, soft but insistent, on the evening of Friday, Sept. 18, in a converted yoga studio on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, N.J. The rock photographer Danny Clinch was celebrating the opening of “Be True,” his first single-subject exhibit: Bruce Springsteen, in his natural habitat. Several hundred people had Read More
New York landlord Joseph Chetrit has invaded New Jersey. The Star-Ledger brings us news that Chetrit has purchased the Berkeley-Carteret Hotel on the Jersey Shore in Asbury Park.
Chetrit paid $16 million for the hotel, with a re-opening planned for summer.
- John Koblin
House: A Memoir, by Michael Ruhlman. Viking, 243 pages,
$24.95
4th of July, Asbury Park: A
History of the Promised Land,
by Daniel Wolff. Bloomsbury, 278 pages, $24.95
In
July of 2001, author Michael Ruhlman (The
Soul of a Chef, Walk on Water)
and his wife, photographer Donna Turner-Ruhlman, Read More
House: A Memoir, by Michael Ruhlman. Viking, 243 pages, $24.95
4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land, by Daniel Wolff. Bloomsbury, 278 pages, $24.95
In July of 2001, author Michael Ruhlman ( The Soul of a Chef, Walk on Water) and his wife, photographer Donna Turner-Ruhlman, entered a large, century-old house Read More
In the Hamptons, Christian Wolffer may be known as the German-born Lebenskünstler who owns Sagpond Vineyards, producer of a ’97 merlot that The New York Times pronounced “bottled pornography.” But a continent away, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the venture capitalist has become the Pacific equivalent of Ira Rennert, the mansion-building desecrator of Sagaponack. Read More
Asbury Park, N.J., en route to Atlantic City. Every now and then I like to drive down to the Jersey Shore and revisit Asbury Park’s decline–and Bruce Springsteen’s rise. I’ve always had a guilty fondness for tacky beach towns, the bittersweet, decaying glamour of splintered boardwalks, melancholy bungalows, boarded-up Dairy Queens and disintegrating Tilt-A-Whirls. Particularly Read More
