Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. Canada. They also later covered "Spirit(s) in the Night" and "For You" as well. In 2003, the album was ranked at #379 in "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and in 2013 "Rolling Stone" named "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." as one of the "100 Greatest Debut Albums of All-Time". The album also reached #60 on the "Billboard" 200 album chart. Springsteen and his first manager Mike Appel recorded the album at the low-priced, out-of-the-way 914 Sound Studios to save as much as possible of the Columbia Records advance, and cut most of the songs in a single
Asbury Park, New Jersey eminent domain of the Board of Education building on Lake Avenue. The Board of Education moved to the third and fourth floors of 603 Mattison Avenue, the former "Asbury Park Press" building, where it paid $189,327 in rent per year. In February 2007, the offices of the Asbury Park Board of Education were raided by investigators from the State Attorney General's office, prompted by allegations of corruption and misuse of funds. Per-student expenditures in Asbury Park have generated statewide controversy for several years. In 2006, "The New York Times" reported that Asbury Park "spends more than $18,000 per student each