Get outta here!

An audacious new list crowning a Jersey burg one of the best small towns in America suggests its downtown — all but left for dead just decades ago — currently rivals the best NYC has to offer.

Chosen by the jet-setting experts at Travel + Leisure, the America’s Best Small Towns 2025 survey chose ten lucky spots from coast to coast — settling on Asbury Park, NJ as a top pick. 5

Barely an hour from the Holland Tunnel and not much longer via NJ Transit from Penn Station, this isn’t the gym, tan and laundry-loving Jersey Shore reality star Snooki and her spray-tanned crew repped on MTV in the 2010s.

The once forgotten blue-collar city of roughly 15,000 full-time residents gained national attention in 1973 when Bruce Springsteen released his album “Greetings from Asbu

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