| February 12, 2005 |
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Asbury Park: Urban Exploration at the Jersey Shore
Asbury  Park, a once-bustling seaside resort immortalized by a Bruce Springsteen album cover, has turned into a veritable ghost town. While the tumbleweeds of the depopulated Great Plains bob through empty streets and tourists flock to the erstwhile settlements of the old West, Asbury Park provides a more recent and eastern example of the rise-and-fall of great American destinations. The town was one of the Northeast's most popular seaside resorts until a long slow decline began in the 1970s. It still has a population of 17,000, but the site's then-and-now photographs painfully illustrate what has been lost inside and outside the decaying structures. The blight includes hotels, the boardwalk and casino, and an unfinished condo tower. As Bruce Springsteen might lament, "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." -- wish you, or anyone, were here. (in Regional > United States) |
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