Article: Asbury Park now means crooked politics, frozen development, not Springsteen. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

ASBURY PARK, N.J. _ Steve Nasar, owner of the Stone Pony, is on the other end of the phone, and he's sounding just the slightest bit condescending.

``Come on,'' he says impatiently. ``What do you think of when you think of Asbury Park?''

Pause.

``You think Bruce Springsteen. ... Asbury Park is a rock-and-roll town.''

Oh, Steve. Would that it were so.

Never mind the Boss' four Grammies on Feb. 28 for ``The Streets of Philadelphia.'' Forget the fact that he named his first album _ back in the days when he was packing them in at the Stone Pony _ ``Greetings from Asbury Park.'' So what if Monmouth County's honky-tonk haven figures in many ...

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