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 Asbury Park was the only beach in New Jersey affected by the Beach Commission law. In 1943, the New York Yankees held their spring training in Asbury Park instead of Florida. This was because rail transport had to be conserved during the war, and Major League Baseball's Spring Training was limited to an area east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River. With the opening of the Garden State Parkway in 1947, Asbury Park saw the travel market change as fewer vacationers took trains to the seashore. While the Asbury Park exit on the Parkway opened in