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Focuses on the predicament of the Stony Point club in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Image problem of the establishment; Residential development plans for the area where Stone Pony is erected; History and legacy of the club.

Torrington, Conn. IT was the top of the fourth inning here at Camp Wah-Nee and the Red Team freshmen were down 15-4. At the plate was Joe Miller, a sweet-faced 8-year-old from New Jersey whose love of baseball is so great that he listens to Red Sox games on headphones while trying to fall asleep. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about crimes recently committed in New York and New Jersey.

Focuses on preparations for Central Park's largest tag sale ever. The Get Organized New York sale, run by Real Simple magazine, a Time Inc. publication that is fundraising for the Fund for Public Schools; Comments of Eileen Sweeney, who is founder of Inkindex, a company that gets other companies to donate excess inventory; Tagging and sorting the items that are being stored in a New Jersey warehouse; Types of items being donated, including two Chanel skirt suits, two pairs of Manolo Blahnik snakeskin slingback shoes, and 25 George Foreman grills; Number of items designated unfit to sell; Corporate donations and celebrities who contributed items, such as Cindi Lauper and Whitney Houston.

Reports on a car crash that caused four lives in Jersey City, New Jersey on June 29, 2003.

Reports the murder of two elderly residents in an apartment building in Newark, New Jersey on January 19, 2003.

Details the sale of 3.9 acres on North Sea Harbor in New Jersey to the town of Southampton to be turned into a restaurant and public marina. History of the property; Neighbors' comments on the change; Costs; Criticism of the purchase.

Presents information on the Ice House in Hackensack, New Jersey, where figure skater Sarah Hughes trains.

Focuses on operations at the Stone Pony nightclub in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Possibility that it may be moved or otherwise altered because of a gentrification project in Asbury Park; Cultural importance of the nightclub, a venue used by musician Bruce Springsteen since his early career; Plans for a public meeting to discuss the fate of the Stone Pony.

Presents news briefs from metropolitan areas in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as of November 21, 2000. Details of the plans of the Oneida Indian Nation to expand its Turning Stone Casino Resort; Approval of a New Jersey bill that would prohibit police departments from requiring ticket quotas and using them to evaluate officers; Connecticut investigation of voting procedures in the November 2000 presidential election.

Reports that Tyesha Turnage, 18, of Irvington, New Jersey was charged with assault after confessing to severely beating her 18-month-old daughter on August 31, 2000. Information on the injuries of the child who is taken to the University Hospital in Newark; Description on Turnage as a mother.

Reports on the arrest of physician Idella Kathleen Hagen for the murder of her parents in Chatam Township, New Jersey. Autopsy on body of her parents; Background of Hagen; Her reputation among the neighbors.

The article offers news briefs on legal and criminal issues in the metropolitan areas of New York and New Jersey. George Saravanos, a suspect in the shooting death of a correction officer in New York City was arrested in Ecuador recently. A U.S. District Court judge awarded legal fee to a lawyer for his service to settle a $1.25 billion to Holocaust survivors after a long dispute. The New Jersey police justified the police shooting on a woman who led them on a car chase.

The article offers news briefs in New York and New Jersey. A mother was accused of trying to kill her five-month-old daughter. The board of trustees of the State University of New York approved the final four charter schools allowed by the state law. Fifty police officers were promoted to the rank of sergeant and lieutenant and captain in Newark. A father has been indicted on a murder charge for the death of his two-year-old son.

Presents news briefs on New York and New Jersey as of October 18, 2001. Number of National Guard Troops requested by New York Governor George E. Pataki to help in the antiterrorist efforts; Guilty plea of rap performer Jay-Z for stabbing a record producer at a nightclub; Passage of a living-wage law in Hempstead, New York; Efforts of New Jersey authorities against Internet gambling sites.