Editing Asbury Park, New Jersey (section)

== In popular culture ==
[[Palace Amusements]] and the Tillie mural have featured in numerous works of popular culture. Additional works reference Asbury Park, specifically.

In the song "[[At Long Last Love (song)|At Long Last Love]]" (1938), originally written by [[Cole Porter]] for the musical ''[[You Never Know (musical)|You Never Know]]'' (1938), [[Frank Sinatra]] sings "Is it [[Granada, Spain|Granada]] I see, or only Asbury Park?"<ref>Pike, Helen-Chantal. [https://books.google.com/books?id=RaT7Ip9RXZ8C&pg=PA88 ''Asbury Park's Glory Days: The Story of an American Resort''], p. 88. [[Rutgers University Press]], 2007. {{ISBN|9780813540870}}. Accessed January 30, 2014. "Four years later, Porter wrote another musical, ''You Never Know'', with a signature song, "At Long Last Love", later made famous by crooner [[Frank Sinatra]]. The song included the line 'Is it Granada I see, or only Asbury Park?'"</ref>

Bruce Springsteen named his first album "[[Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.]]" in 1973 and described his early life there. The artist has also dedicated many songs to Asbury Park such as "[[4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)]]" and "[[My City of Ruins]]" on his 2002 album, ''[[The Rising (album)|The Rising]]''.<ref>Staff. [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bruce-springsteen-talks-about-jersey-storm-victims-during-penn-state-show-20121102 "Bruce Springsteen Dedicates Song to Jersey Storm Victims at Penn State Gig; Rocker sings 'My City of Ruins' for Asbury Park, praises first responders"], ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', November 2, 2012. Accessed January 23, 2018. "Bruce Springsteen dedicated a wrenching version of 'My City of Ruins' to Asbury Park, New Jersey, during a performance last night in Pennsylvania as part of a tribute that included praise for Gov. Chris Christie and thanks to police and firefighters for the way they have responded to the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy."</ref>

The group [[mewithoutYou]] references Asbury Park several times on their album ''[[Ten Stories]]'' (2012). The song "Bear's Vision of St. Agnes" mentions "that tattered rag shop back in Asbury Park", and the song "Fox's Dream of the Log Flume" mentions the pier and sand dunes.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}

Asbury Park was used for the location filming of the crime drama ''[[City by the Sea]]'' (2002), starring [[Robert De Niro]], [[James Franco]] and [[Frances McDormand]], which was nominally set in [[Long Beach, New York]], where no filming actually took place, according to a disclaimer that was included as part of the closing credits. The film features scenes set on a shabby, dilapidated [[boardwalk (entertainment district)|boardwalk]] and in a ruined/abandoned casino/arcade building. Residents of both places objected to the way their cities were depicted.<ref>Saslow, Linda. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/nyregion/gritty-city-by-the-sea.html "Gritty City by the Sea"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 15, 2002. Accessed August 27, 2015. "'IF Robert De Niro doesn't mind that everyone calls him Al Pacino,' Louis Navarro figures, 'Asbury Park shouldn't care that it's portrayed as Long Beach.' That pretty much sums up what Asbury Park residents are feeling these days, at least those who have seen the movie ''City by the Sea,'' the latest slap to be endured by a city that is slap-happy over more than a decade of decay and disrespect."</ref> Asbury Park appears at the start of the 1999 film [[Dogma (film)|Dogma]].

The 2006 horror film ''[[Dark Ride (film)|Dark Ride]]'' is set in Asbury Park.<ref>O'Sullivan, Eleanor. [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/144623853/ "Singer's Latest Has A Shore Feel"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', November 12, 2006. Accessed March 15, 2021, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Craig Singer's new horror feature film, ''Dark Ride,'' opening nationwide Friday, begins with a shot of the beloved Asbury Park icon Tillie. 'We did exteriors in Asbury Park, and our scene-setter is in Asbury Park,' said Singer of Fair Haven. 'You could say that Tillie was my mojo, the mood-setter for me.'"</ref>

The Season 2 finale of ''[[The Sopranos]]'', "[[Funhouse (The Sopranos)|Funhouse]]", originally aired in April 2000, includes several discrete dream sequences dreamed by Tony that take place on the Asbury Park Boardwalk, including Madame Marie's as well as Tony and Pauly playing cards at a table in the empty hall of the Convention Center. The episode's title alludes to the Palace, which is also shown.<ref>Adams, Erik; Dyess-Nugent, Phil; Eichel, Molly; and McGee, Ryan. [http://www.avclub.com/article/a-favorite-sopranos-episode-visits-the-funhouse-in-106948 "A favorite ''Sopranos'' episode visits the 'Funhouse' in Tony's head"], [[The A.V. Club]], January 15, 2014. Accessed August 8, 2016. "There are boardwalks all over the Jersey coast, so why pick Asbury Park? For those familiar with the shore town its landmarks are featured prominently. The most obvious aspects are the shots of Tony in front of the stately Convention Hall and the surrealistic pan featuring two of the city's most iconic murals: amusement park fun face 'Tillie' and Madam Marie's sign. Asbury Park was a city in steady decline when Tony Soprano landed there."</ref>

In a 1955 episode of ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' ("Better Living Though TV"), [[Alice Kramden]] ridicules husband [[Ralph Kramden]]'s seemingly never-ending parade of failed get-rich-quick schemes, including his investment in "the [[uranium]] field in Asbury Park".<ref>[[James Barron (journalist)|Barron, James]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/26/style/honeymooners-isn-t-over-for-its-fans.html "'Honeymooners' Isn't Over For Its Fans"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 26, 1983. Accessed August 27, 2015. "Most of the action took place in the Kramden kitchen, and the story line often centered on Kramden's spectacular get-rich-quick schemes, which always turned out to be spectacular flops—wallpaper that glowed in the dark, uranium-mine speculation in Asbury Park, N.J., a 'handy housewife helper' gadget and no-cal pizza."</ref>

Asbury Park is the setting of the [[Nickelodeon]] series ''[[Erin & Aaron]]''.

[[Routine Maintenance (album)|Routine Maintenance]], a concept album and the second from the musical act [[Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties]], features the titular character working as a painter in Asbury Park.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://genius.com/17137429 | title=Down in Asbury Park }}</ref>