Well, that still sucks. Are there any unbroken windows left in town???
Btw, I dug out a contact sheet of some b&w photos I took of my last venture out to Asbury Park (part of my more thorough, pre-digital photography, evening wannabe art student days). These are over 15 years old. The beach, the opera house, and everything was as abandoned as a small town after a neutron bomb blast. Save for the one guy with radiation damage to what was left of his brain in the photo at lower right -- I think he was the mayor or something. All I remember is that I didn't want to play in the rusted merry-go-round with him, as the urine stains on his pants didn't exactly say, "Safe with children".
I found the place pretty fascinating, actually, though most would think it's pretty depressing. I only hope it's improved over the years, as the place obviously had some former glory and the potential to gain some of it back.