“Asbury Park is a scary place.”
I’ll bet it didn’t use to be.
Just a guess, but formerly full of solid, nuclear families, little crime, good schools, and a clean well-behaved beach- Mom, Dad and kids, even safe for Grandma and Grandpa, on the weekends.
Big sigh.....
I’ve seen Asbury Park on tv, featured as being in the midst of a revival, a rebuilding revival, that is. The once well known beach town had fallen into a state very similar to Atlantic City before the gambling, not that gambling exactly enhanced the community, it just turned the young and the homeless into drug dealers and prostitutes.