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🌱 Patch AM: How a 1940s phone strike hit Asbury Park’s Bangs Avenue office

Also, don't miss Gayme Night supporting safer communities and TWO local nonprofits! on the Asbury Park Patch calendar

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Good morning Asbury Park! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How a 1940s phone strike hit Asbury Park’s Bangs Avenue office
  • How secure is Asbury Park’s access to emergency hospital care now?

Also on today's calendar: Gayme Night supporting safer communities and TWO local nonprofits! and 7 more events.

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Today's riddle: What did one elevator say to the other? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Monday: Brilliant sunshine and breezy, with a high of 43 and low of 32 degrees.
  • Tuesday: Sunny; breezy in the p.m., temps: high: 47, low: 38.
  • Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 48 and low of 38 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Rooster attacks boy, ends up dinner: From Asbury Park Press archives (app.com) — Phone workers once picketed the Bangs Avenue exchange in Asbury Park as a national strike threat led New Jersey Bell to urge customers to limit calls. The archival piece also revisits a feisty Long Branch rooster, a proposed Ocean County home for older residents, a disputed Middletown road, and Neptune’s push for its own post office branch.
   

• Monmouth Medical Center Approval Carries Implications for Asbury Park as Long Branch Services Preserved (tapinto.net) — Asbury Park residents will see key hospital services remain close by in Long Branch even as Monmouth Medical Center moves ahead with a new Tinton Falls hospital. State officials and Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. negotiated conditions to preserve emergency, inpatient, and specialty care on the coast, aiming to protect vulnerable Asbury Park-area patients while expanding capacity inland.
   

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