Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. in the Dark", which peaked at number two for four weeks. "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." first charted in the United Kingdom on June 15, 1985, in the wake of Springsteen's "Born in the USA" tour arriving in Britain; it remained in the top 100 for ten weeks. On November 22, 2009, "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." was played in its entirety for the first time by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York, to celebrate the last show of the "Working on a Dream" tour. In a contemporary review for "Rolling
Asbury Park, New Jersey a number of grand hotels were built, including the Plaza Hotel. Uriah White, an Asbury Park pioneer, installed the first artesian well water system. As many as 600,000 people a year vacationed in Asbury Park during the summer season in the early years, riding the New York and Long Branch Railroad from New York City and Philadelphia to enjoy the mile-and-a-quarter stretch of oceanfront Asbury Park. By 1912, "The New York Times" estimated that the summer population could reach 200,000. The "country by the sea" destination experienced several key periods of popularity. The first notable era was the 1890s, marked