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 station the construction of an extension of the New York and Long Branch Railroad (NY&LB), a subsidiary of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Pennsylvania Railroad. The NY&LB began as a railroad between Elizabethport (in Elizabeth, Union County) to Long Branch, finished in 1875. The railroad was extended through the city of Asbury Park on July 7 to Sea Girt. However, the station at Asbury Park was built on land donated by the Ocean Grove Campmeeting Association, a part of the Methodist Church. The new station was built for the purposes of serving both Asbury Park and Ocean Grove.