Public works employees installed concrete barricades around several parking spaces on Broad Street in downtown Red Bank Thursday afternoon.

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The resulting enclosure created the district’s first ‘parklet,’ this one outside Bombay River and Tacoholics restaurants.

As reported by redbankgreen Thursday, the parklets are intended to provide in-street dining space for restaurants located outside the three-week-old Broad Street plaza as they struggle to recover from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to members of the borough Reopening Task Force.

Additional parklets are planned outside Jamian’s Food and Drink and its next-door neighbor, Red Tank Brewing, on Monmouth Street; Ce La Vi, also on Monmouth; and  Semolina, on White Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)