Tag: Oceanport

As Monmouth Park gears up for its 78th racing season, racetrack leadership held a press conference to share what’s new for 2023.

A new festival that organizers hope will become an annual event will debut on the grounds of Fort Monmouth’s historic Russel Hall June 3 and 4, bringing food, music, and revelers inside the fort’s Oceanport Avenue gates.

While scouting locations for commemorative markers along Fort Monmouth’s new Riverwalk promenade on Parkers Creek, members of Oceanport’s Historical Committee were met with “No Trespassing” signs in the East Gate development. Subsequently, Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA) officials launched an inquiry into their origin.

New Jersey City University, based in Jersey City with a two-year-old campus on Fort Monmouth, continues enacting measures to regain its financial footing and keep the Oceanport campus open, including offering its facilities to outside groups.

The pervasive question “What’s happening on Fort Monmouth?” refers not only to redevelopment projects; it is also spurred by the sight of heavy equipment and excavations throughout the 1,126-acre property.

The U.S. military’s downing of a Chinese spy balloon and other unidentified aerial objects across North America over the past several weeks has many looking skyward.

A wedding is ostensibly about two people professing their love for each other and joining together for a lifetime, but once the nuptials are over, it’s all about the celebration.

The team behind The Fort Athletic Club in Oceanport has breathed new life into the old Fort Monmouth gym. Before the Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission shuttered Fort Monmouth in 2011, the building was known as the Abramowitz Field House.

On May 13 Monmouth Park will kick off its 78th horse racing season, featuring 48 different stakes through September.

Final negotiations are underway with three potential tenants seeking to be first into the new retail center rising along Oceanport Avenue on Fort Monmouth, according to the property’s owner.