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 After a spike in gang violence, violent crime had decreased by almost 20% from 2006 to 2008. In the calendar year through August 26, 2013, Asbury Park has had 6 homicides; there have also been 17 people non-fatally injured in shooting incidents. In February 2014, "Operation Dead End" arrested gang members of the Crips and Bloods; one Asbury Park patrol officer was arrested for aiding gang members. On June 16, 2015, Asbury Park police officers arrested a Neptune Township off-duty police officer for the murder of his ex-wife on an Asbury Park street in broad daylight. , the Asbury Park