The answer sleeping the Avon Fire Department was called due to no Volunteers for a fire alarm at a local high raise apartment house. watch the video's and maybe someone in BBFD will wake up.
Friday, January 27, 2012
What is Bradley Beach Fire Department doing it was a little after 12 midnight on 1-27-2012
The answer sleeping the Avon Fire Department was called due to no Volunteers for a fire alarm at a local high raise apartment house. watch the video's and maybe someone in BBFD will wake up.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Bradley Beach OK's Beachfront Smoking Ban but the fight is not yet over and the lighter put away come out February 14, 2012 and tell them what you think.
Dear editor,
As a Bradley Beach resident, I am curious about your lack of coverage on the recently proposed ordinance that will ban smoking east of ocean ave. This is a serious issue that, to my knowledge, did not have a public referendum. This is a serious issue in town, and is lacking in coverage, as it will have a tremendous impact on the community in the coming months. I hope your publication takes it seriously enough to report on, since no one else is.
Regards,
Joe Peters
Well first thank you for you letter to the editor
I have many questions?
#1 Will we hire Smoking Cops to check the visitors to the our beaches?
#2 Now when did we elect other to stop us from doing legal things?
#3 Will we save any money by this or is this just grandstanding on Good Health?
#4 Will we give out special permits so some can smoke on the beach?
What was
As a Bradley Beach resident, I am curious about your lack of coverage on the recently proposed ordinance that will ban smoking east of ocean ave. This is a serious issue that, to my knowledge, did not have a public referendum. This is a serious issue in town, and is lacking in coverage, as it will have a tremendous impact on the community in the coming months. I hope your publication takes it seriously enough to report on, since no one else is.
Regards,
Joe Peters
Well first thank you for you letter to the editor
I have many questions?
#1 Will we hire Smoking Cops to check the visitors to the our beaches?
#2 Now when did we elect other to stop us from doing legal things?
#3 Will we save any money by this or is this just grandstanding on Good Health?
#4 Will we give out special permits so some can smoke on the beach?
What was
Y. Smoking restrictions on beachfront areas.
[Added by Ord. No. 2003-01; amended 2-8-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-2; 11-9-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-13]
(1) No person shall smoke a cigarette, cigar or other tobacco product in the beachfront area at any time except in a designated smoking area as indicated by signs posted in the beachfront area.
(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term “beachfront area” shall mean all public areas including, but not limited to, all beaches, boardwalk areas, access ramps, grass areas, sidewalk areas, paver areas and other areas subject to the control or jurisdiction of the Borough of Bradley Beach east of the easterly curb line along Ocean Avenue, in the Borough of Bradley Beach.
What will be if no one shows up to speak out on February 14, 2012
ORDINANCE 2012-01
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND SUPPLEMENT THE
REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCE’S OF THE BOROUGH
OF BRADLEY BEACH, COUNTY OF MONMOUTH, STATE
OF NEW JERSEY, CHAPTER 123, BEACHFRONT AREAS
AND ADJACENT WATERS, AMENDING SECTIONS 123-
8.Y(1) & (2) AND ENACTING SECTION 8.Y(3)
WHEREAS the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Bradley Beach finds that each is charged
with the duty to promote and protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the Borough
of Bradley Beach, and;
WHEREAS the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Bradley Beach acknowledges that the
smoking of tobacco products has been shown to deleteriously affect the health of both smokers
and non-smokers and;
WHEREAS the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Bradley Beach finds that by banning the
smoking of tobacco products in the beach area at all times, and on the beach proper during peak
use periods, that it may fairly and effectively promote a more healthy and clean beach
environment for its citizens and guests;
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Bradley Beach that Chapter
123, Sections 8.Y (1) (2) AND (3), of the Revised General Ordinances of the Borough of
Bradley Beach shall be revised, amended and enacted to read as follows:
Y. Smoking restrictions in beach and beachfront areas.
(1) No person shall smoke a cigarette, cigar or other tobacco product in the
beachfront area at any time.
(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term “beachfront area” shall mean all
public areas, excepting the beach area proper, including but not limited to, boardwalk
areas, access ramps, grass areas, sidewalk areas, paver areas, areas leased to third parties,
and other areas subject to the control or jurisdiction of the Borough of Bradley Beach east
of the easterly curb line along Ocean Avenue, in the Borough of Bradley Beach.
(3) No person shall smoke a cigarette, cigar or other tobacco product on any
beach area proper from 9:00 AM through 7 PM on any day through and including the
dates of May 1 and September 30 of any year.
MARY ANN SOLINSKI JULIE SCHRECK
Borough Clerk Mayor
Introduced: January 24, 2012
Date of Hearing and Adoption: February 14, 2012
Date of Publication:
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND SUPPLEMENT THE
REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCE’S OF THE BOROUGH
OF BRADLEY BEACH, COUNTY OF MONMOUTH, STATE
OF NEW JERSEY, CHAPTER 123, BEACHFRONT AREAS
AND ADJACENT WATERS, AMENDING SECTIONS 123-
8.Y(1) & (2) AND ENACTING SECTION 8.Y(3)
WHEREAS the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Bradley Beach finds that each is charged
with the duty to promote and protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the Borough
of Bradley Beach, and;
WHEREAS the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Bradley Beach acknowledges that the
smoking of tobacco products has been shown to deleteriously affect the health of both smokers
and non-smokers and;
WHEREAS the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Bradley Beach finds that by banning the
smoking of tobacco products in the beach area at all times, and on the beach proper during peak
use periods, that it may fairly and effectively promote a more healthy and clean beach
environment for its citizens and guests;
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Bradley Beach that Chapter
123, Sections 8.Y (1) (2) AND (3), of the Revised General Ordinances of the Borough of
Bradley Beach shall be revised, amended and enacted to read as follows:
Y. Smoking restrictions in beach and beachfront areas.
(1) No person shall smoke a cigarette, cigar or other tobacco product in the
beachfront area at any time.
(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term “beachfront area” shall mean all
public areas, excepting the beach area proper, including but not limited to, boardwalk
areas, access ramps, grass areas, sidewalk areas, paver areas, areas leased to third parties,
and other areas subject to the control or jurisdiction of the Borough of Bradley Beach east
of the easterly curb line along Ocean Avenue, in the Borough of Bradley Beach.
(3) No person shall smoke a cigarette, cigar or other tobacco product on any
beach area proper from 9:00 AM through 7 PM on any day through and including the
dates of May 1 and September 30 of any year.
MARY ANN SOLINSKI JULIE SCHRECK
Borough Clerk Mayor
Introduced: January 24, 2012
Date of Hearing and Adoption: February 14, 2012
Date of Publication:
W.E. May running in November for Mayor
Love and Blessing to Bradley Beach,
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Five decades of stopping the passing scene Photographer has marked the changing face of the Jersey Shore
Reprint from The Hub March 29, 2002
Five decades of stopping the passing scene Photographer has marked the changing face of the Jersey Shore
Five decades of stopping the passing scene
Photographer has marked the changing face
of the Jersey Shore
Milton Edelman of Bradley Beach has built an extensive archive of pictures of Long Branch and the surrounding communities that he has taken over five decades working as a photographer in the area. It’s retro, it’s renascent — the passing scene of locals, landmarks and leisure times at the Jersey Shore captured with affection in the classic photographs and postcard scenes produced by local paparazzo Milton Edelman.
Beginning in the 1950s, Edelman recorded scenes ranging from throngs of sun worshippers on local beaches and boardwalks lined with amusements to gaudy arcades and restaurant openings.
"I photographed the arcade as an event. It’s a photographer’s way of recording a scene," said Edelman, who in the 1950s began to focus his camera on Jerseyana, ranging from a chess prodigy warming up for a tournament at a Shore hotel to the Haunted Mansion on the Long Branch pier.
Until the store closed, Edelman’s photos were available at Vintage Photos of the Jersey Shore, a shop he operated at the Seaview Square Mall, Wanamassa section of Ocean Township. Currently, he sells his retrospective photos at local craft shows like the Bradley Beach Boardwalk Craft Fair scheduled for Memorial Day weekend.
Edelman’s entrée into photography came via the GI Bill. After an overseas stint with the U.S. Air Force during World War II, he returned to his hometown and studied at the Baltimore Institute of Photography.
"I was always interested in art, but didn’t have the talent for commercial art," he explained. "I decided on photography because I loved art and liked mechanical things, and I figured photography was a happy medium."
But jobs were hard to come by when he graduated in 1949, and he moved up to Asbury Park and worked as a waiter at a nearby country club.
Edelman moved to Texas in 1950 and bought a photography studio in Crystal, a small town below San Antonio, 40 miles from the Mexican border. It was his first business venture and proved to be a valuable training ground.
"I learned a lot about photography, believe it or not," he said. "The studio I bought was built as a daylight studio so I was working only with daylight. Part of the roof facing north was glass skylights, and the light was controlled with shades. For one year, I worked doing portraits entirely with daylight.
"I got remarkable results. I learned how to judge light, natural light. The results you can get from natural light are really remarkable. That’s the way the old masters did it centuries ago.
"I did portraits and news events for the local newspaper," he said.
And there were frequent small-town weddings.
"On a Sunday, if there was a wedding at the church, it was a tradition, after the service the whole wedding party would come right to the studio without an appointment," he recounted. "I would go to the studio and wait and the whole wedding party showed up."
And portraits of children were commissioned on trust.
"On any Saturday I could count on about 10 mothers coming in with their babies and asking me in Spanish if I would photograph their children," recalled Edelman. "There were no appointments; they would just walk in the door. Most were farm workers. I’d do a portrait, and they’d give me a dollar down and $1 per week. Portraits cost about $7-8. Every week they would come and give me the $1. I never lost a nickel."
In 1955, Edelman sold the studio and returned to Asbury Park where he worked at Storyland Village in Neptune, then segued into what was one of his favorite jobs as a convention photographer at the Monterey Hotel on Sixth and Ocean avenues in Asbury Park.
One of his favorite photos is one he took there in 1957 of 13-year-old chess prodigy Bobby Fisher playing a practice game with an older gent. "His younger sister was sitting next to him drinking a soda," Edelman recalled. "I still have that picture."
He opened a photography studio in Oakhurst around 1962, concentrating on weddings and portraits, while continuing to record scenes of the Jersey Shore.
"I did a lot of color postcards during that time of the entire Shore area — Long Branch, Ocean Grove, Asbury Park," he said. His photos recorded Shore images from the now-vanished pier at Ocean Avenue to Asbury Park icon Tillie to San Alfonso’s Retreat House in the West End.
Edelman’s postcard scenes fell into two categories.
"Basically there are two types of postcards," he explained. "Advertising, which has to do with commercial ventures like restaurants and motels, and [the] local view, which captures the local flavor and is of general interest.
"Any photographer has a feeling of the passing scene, what is worthwhile recording," he said. "I have this artistic feeling that this excites me and I shoot it, sometimes just for my own pleasure because I like it.
"It could be people at the beach, children building sand castles, sunset scenes at the marina in Belmar, one of my favorite places."
There are times when he revisits a scene, he confided.
"When I came here, I worked a couple of weeks as a busboy at a hotel in Asbury Park. I photographed it again last year," he said, "just to show the ruins of the Metropolitan Hotel."
Edelman remains active as a photographer for local groups, and his work has been featured in historical exhibits and can be found on a Web site devoted to the revival of Asbury Park.
His photo work for postcards appears in "Greetings from New Jersey, a Postcard Tour of the Garden State," by Helen Chantal Pike, and the Eatontown author said his photographs of Asbury Park will be included in her upcoming book, Asbury Park’s Glory Days.
While he no longer maintains a studio, Edelman still develops his own black-and-white film, and he holds several provisional patents for modifications of photo equipment.
Edelman also is the repository of a cache of glass plate negatives of photographs by Frank Jones, who photographed the local scene in the early 1900s. A family friend, Edelman inherited the glass plates that include scenes of a 1907 fire on the West End and turn-of-the-century Broadway.
A collection of glass plates he purchased yielded the original plates for portraits of Mark Twain and Buffalo Bill.
But he said he was unaware of the historic value of his own work when he was focusing on "those glorious days" at the Shore.
"I didn’t think of it as preserving history at the time," Edelman said of his almost 50 years of photographing the Jersey Shore. "Part of it was the possibility of selling and the other is that I liked to do it.
"Was I a historian? I was a recorder of the passing scene," he mused.
Five decades of stopping the passing scene Photographer has marked the changing face of the Jersey Shore
Staff Writer
Photographer has marked the changing face
of the Jersey Shore
 |
| photo by JERRY WOLKOWITZ |
Milton Edelman of Bradley Beach has built an extensive archive of pictures of Long Branch and the surrounding communities that he has taken over five decades working as a photographer in the area. It’s retro, it’s renascent — the passing scene of locals, landmarks and leisure times at the Jersey Shore captured with affection in the classic photographs and postcard scenes produced by local paparazzo Milton Edelman.
Beginning in the 1950s, Edelman recorded scenes ranging from throngs of sun worshippers on local beaches and boardwalks lined with amusements to gaudy arcades and restaurant openings.
"I photographed the arcade as an event. It’s a photographer’s way of recording a scene," said Edelman, who in the 1950s began to focus his camera on Jerseyana, ranging from a chess prodigy warming up for a tournament at a Shore hotel to the Haunted Mansion on the Long Branch pier.
Until the store closed, Edelman’s photos were available at Vintage Photos of the Jersey Shore, a shop he operated at the Seaview Square Mall, Wanamassa section of Ocean Township. Currently, he sells his retrospective photos at local craft shows like the Bradley Beach Boardwalk Craft Fair scheduled for Memorial Day weekend.
Edelman’s entrée into photography came via the GI Bill. After an overseas stint with the U.S. Air Force during World War II, he returned to his hometown and studied at the Baltimore Institute of Photography."I was always interested in art, but didn’t have the talent for commercial art," he explained. "I decided on photography because I loved art and liked mechanical things, and I figured photography was a happy medium."
But jobs were hard to come by when he graduated in 1949, and he moved up to Asbury Park and worked as a waiter at a nearby country club.
Edelman moved to Texas in 1950 and bought a photography studio in Crystal, a small town below San Antonio, 40 miles from the Mexican border. It was his first business venture and proved to be a valuable training ground.
"I learned a lot about photography, believe it or not," he said. "The studio I bought was built as a daylight studio so I was working only with daylight. Part of the roof facing north was glass skylights, and the light was controlled with shades. For one year, I worked doing portraits entirely with daylight."I got remarkable results. I learned how to judge light, natural light. The results you can get from natural light are really remarkable. That’s the way the old masters did it centuries ago.
"I did portraits and news events for the local newspaper," he said.
And there were frequent small-town weddings.
"On a Sunday, if there was a wedding at the church, it was a tradition, after the service the whole wedding party would come right to the studio without an appointment," he recounted. "I would go to the studio and wait and the whole wedding party showed up."
And portraits of children were commissioned on trust.
"On any Saturday I could count on about 10 mothers coming in with their babies and asking me in Spanish if I would photograph their children," recalled Edelman. "There were no appointments; they would just walk in the door. Most were farm workers. I’d do a portrait, and they’d give me a dollar down and $1 per week. Portraits cost about $7-8. Every week they would come and give me the $1. I never lost a nickel."
In 1955, Edelman sold the studio and returned to Asbury Park where he worked at Storyland Village in Neptune, then segued into what was one of his favorite jobs as a convention photographer at the Monterey Hotel on Sixth and Ocean avenues in Asbury Park.
One of his favorite photos is one he took there in 1957 of 13-year-old chess prodigy Bobby Fisher playing a practice game with an older gent. "His younger sister was sitting next to him drinking a soda," Edelman recalled. "I still have that picture."
He opened a photography studio in Oakhurst around 1962, concentrating on weddings and portraits, while continuing to record scenes of the Jersey Shore.
"I did a lot of color postcards during that time of the entire Shore area — Long Branch, Ocean Grove, Asbury Park," he said. His photos recorded Shore images from the now-vanished pier at Ocean Avenue to Asbury Park icon Tillie to San Alfonso’s Retreat House in the West End.
Edelman’s postcard scenes fell into two categories.
"Basically there are two types of postcards," he explained. "Advertising, which has to do with commercial ventures like restaurants and motels, and [the] local view, which captures the local flavor and is of general interest.
"Any photographer has a feeling of the passing scene, what is worthwhile recording," he said. "I have this artistic feeling that this excites me and I shoot it, sometimes just for my own pleasure because I like it.
"It could be people at the beach, children building sand castles, sunset scenes at the marina in Belmar, one of my favorite places."
There are times when he revisits a scene, he confided.
"When I came here, I worked a couple of weeks as a busboy at a hotel in Asbury Park. I photographed it again last year," he said, "just to show the ruins of the Metropolitan Hotel."
Edelman remains active as a photographer for local groups, and his work has been featured in historical exhibits and can be found on a Web site devoted to the revival of Asbury Park.
His photo work for postcards appears in "Greetings from New Jersey, a Postcard Tour of the Garden State," by Helen Chantal Pike, and the Eatontown author said his photographs of Asbury Park will be included in her upcoming book, Asbury Park’s Glory Days.
While he no longer maintains a studio, Edelman still develops his own black-and-white film, and he holds several provisional patents for modifications of photo equipment.
Edelman also is the repository of a cache of glass plate negatives of photographs by Frank Jones, who photographed the local scene in the early 1900s. A family friend, Edelman inherited the glass plates that include scenes of a 1907 fire on the West End and turn-of-the-century Broadway.
A collection of glass plates he purchased yielded the original plates for portraits of Mark Twain and Buffalo Bill.
But he said he was unaware of the historic value of his own work when he was focusing on "those glorious days" at the Shore.
"I didn’t think of it as preserving history at the time," Edelman said of his almost 50 years of photographing the Jersey Shore. "Part of it was the possibility of selling and the other is that I liked to do it.
"Was I a historian? I was a recorder of the passing scene," he mused.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
The King visits Bradley Beach
The King visits Bradley Beach
9/3/2011 7PM on a star studded moonlit night @ 75 degrees Riley Park
Bradley train station in the background without my better half
was I lonesome tonight as I felt my blue suede shoes tapping
to a jailhouse rock, I had no partner but a wooden chair as a
hunk a hung of burning love over swept my suspicious mind
I was caught in a trap, I couldn’t walk out, I love you tender too much
as a 5 piece band shook & swiveled to the swoon of both young & old
reminding us of a legend that will always live on, I just can’t help believing
& I can’t help falling in love as, a piercing sax solo, broke the night air and I thought of the wonder of you and I followed that dream and I wondered what ever happened to that old hound dog, I helped a senior friend up to the front of the stage as she got her photo kiss memory from the king
she proudly placed the yellow scar memento around her neck & sighed as it brought back
graceland memories of an innocent bygone times I looked away at dixeland at a heartfelt tribute to our boys in uniform over sees; there was not a dry eye in the park as the high notes hit the alleluia and you knew His truth was marching on; glory glory it’s now or never, is that the devil in disguise.
It only worked out because he did it his way I’ll never walk alone because you were always on my
mind as we mingle with cappuccino & biscotti on the sidewalk cafe of Delpontes as the lights dim and the crowd disperses…Now the stage is bare & if you don’t come back to me, they can bring the curtain down thank you very much, the king has left but the music will forever linger on & on.
The End
James P. Gorman 
Without readers a writer's quill dries up & he fades into obscurity
Till next year Elvis and Bill Turner and his band Blue Smoke say goodnight!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Hurricane Review By James P. Gorman "Without readers a writer's quill dries up & he fades into obscurity"
Hurricane Review
A writer never loses the opportunity to put his thoughts into print.
Thursday 8/25/2011; I swim in the ocean and the sea is very choppy & cold
I question is this my last swim for summer 2011 as temperatures level off at mid 70’s
The pending Irene’s path is contunuosly being hyped on all T.V radio channels.
Has God & nature decided the summer is over before the customary Labor Day weekend
events……….the charcoal grey shifting clouds mixed with a soft rain, bring out a beautiful
detailed wide ban rainbow at 4:30 PM, the colorful multi band arches directly over the
Sephardic synagogue…I question……..maybe they are the chosen people, if so
do I change religions; or by hanging their head in spiritual prayers, do they miss out on the
glory of God above their heads. Friday 8/26/2011…as hurricane hype increases it is beautiful
summer day….friday….known as “The calm before the storm”….I go down to the ocean….Irene’s
rath is starting to show………..the waves are averaging 8 to 10 feet…people look in amazment as
both surfers & kayakas try to catch the perfect wave of the endless summer…I put my ankles
in the warm surf & throw the saltwater on my face & head….at ankle deep….I can feel the
magnetic pull of the strong surf, there are no foolish swimmers, the beach is officially closed
except for young surfers and one sober observant writer…..in closing hurricane questions
that come to mind…..before all natural disasters there is a run at the supermarket for the
three basic staples of milk, eggs and bread. Which brings the question to my mind, if your
going to die in a flood, is it important the you last meal be French toast ?....I on the other hand
take the road less traveled & obtain the necessities of vodka, wine, cigarettes, a good DVD
let romance & the moment have its way…..OMG!!...she murmured, I felt the earth move”
What’s up with duct taping the windows with a huge satanic “X”? does it make you feel involved?
I to be odd & different tape a “Y” on my windows with a blue tape…The only thing taping does is
makes you curse & feel frustrated the day after as you unglue it from the window. My disturbed mind
always related window taping to the blood of the lamb on Passover. perhaps the rath of God’s
fury will Passover all those who made an attempt at futility. does anyone want to buy 20 sheets of slightly used plywood? In closing as the song goes“Goodnite Irene” you are now irrelevant & past history…My blood pressure will go sky high at the first idiot I see wearing a “I survived Irene 2011 tee shirt.
The end
James P. Gorman
Without readers a writer's quill dries up & he fades into obscurity
Monday, August 29, 2011
The Ocean is happy again Time to surf!
The storm has passed and the Atlantic waters are ready to bring enjoyment to the Jersey Shore Beaches are starting to open back up and yes there will be a labor day at our beaches The Official End of Summer will be great. Today in Bradley Beach NJ the public works department and the lifeguards work together to get the beach open and at about 1:30 people were starting to reenter the beach front area. Surfers were allowed to enter the water under the watchful eyes of Bradley Beach NJ lifeguards. Here is some photo's of the beach taken today by our volunteer staff.
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