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
Metropolitan Hotel (Asbury Park) Metropolitan Hotel (Asbury Park) The Metropolitan Hotel was a 180-room historic structure located at 309 Asbury Avenue in Asbury Park, New Jersey and was one of the last large hotels operating in Asbury Park before it closed in 1989. In September 2007, it was announced that the Metropolitan Hotel had deteriorated to a point in which restoration or rehabilitation was no longer a possibility. The hotel was demolished in early March 2008. The most recent structure was not the original, although a hotel had operated on the site under this name since the 1880s. The main structure was a Spanish