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RED BANK: $9000 ART HEIST, SUSPECT DITCHES ON $266 CAB FARE IN JUNE POLICE BLOTTER
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RED BANK: A thief stole three paintings worth up to $3,000 each and a tax passenger ditched on a huge fare in the June crime and arrest reports from the RBPD.
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July 22nd @ 11am
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RED BANK CHURN: CATEZZA GOES DARK; NEW ITALIAN SPOT EYES FRONT STREET
Red Bank Retail Churn: Catezza goes dark, while an Italian eatery eyes the old Front Street Trattoria location.
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July 15th @ 2pm
RED BANK: FIVE DWI ARRESTS, $700 DRESS SHOPLIFTED IN MAY POLICE BLOTTER
RED BANK: Police blotter for May includes five people arrested for DWI, including two police say refused tests.
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June 19th @ 6pm
RED BANK: MARINE PARK MAKEOVER DEBUT SLATED
RED BANK: Years in the works, an overhaul of Marine Park is set to make its public debut later this month, borough officials said last week.
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June 16th @ 8am
RED BANK: RIVER STREET ASSAULT, SIX DWI’S ON APRIL POLICE BLOTTER
RED BANK: Police blotter for April includes six DWI arrests and an aggravated assault arrest on River Street.
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May 29th @ 11am
RED BANK: LONG LIST OF ARRESTS IN MARCH POLICE BLOTTER
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RED BANK: A man charged with assaulting and taking an officer's weapon is among a long list of arrests by police in the month of March.
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April 17th @ 5pm
RED BANK CHURN: PINBALL LOUNGE, PRE-MADE MEALS SPOT OPEN
Red Bank Retail Churn: A pinball speakeasy and a $10 premade meals spot open. All the details and more news of comings and goings in Churn.
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April 15th @ 7am
RED BANK: THIEVES GRAB GUMMIES, APPLE WATCH IN FEBRUARY POLICE BLOTTER
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Thefts and criminal mischief topped Red Bank police reports for February, with 29 arrests including three DWI charges.(Click to read)
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March 16th @ 5pm
RED BANK CHURN: MEXIMODO OWNER PLANS EATERY; CORNERSTONE GOURMET OPENS
A new gourmet market/caterer opens in the former Citarella's space and Meximodo's owner plans a restaurant on Front Street. (Click to read.)
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March 16th @ 7am
RED BANK: JANUARY CRIME AND ARREST REPORT
RED BANK: Police blotter for January includes three DWI's, a jewelry theft and a smattering of assaults.
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February 15th @ 6am
RED BANK DECEMBER POLICE REPORT: GREASE THIEF STRIKES AGAIN
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RED BANK: Police blotter for December includes a theft of cooking oil, a few DWI arrests and a quiet, crime-free Christmas Eve.
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January 23rd @ 4pm
RED BANK: DRAPERY SHOP CLOSES, WHILE CURTAIN RISES ON NEW SIP ‘N PAINT, COFFEE SHOPS
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, we look at officials' claim of 22 new businesses opening in 2025. Also, one of Red Bank's longest running businesses calls it quits, while new ventures spring up. (Click to read)
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January 21st @ 6pm
RED BANK: DWI’S AND STOLEN FISHING ROD IN NOVEMBER POLICE REPORT
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RED BANK: Police blotter for November includes four DWI arrests several thefts and another graffiti spree. (Click to read)
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December 18th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: TWO ASSAULTS ON COP ARRESTS LEAD OCTOBER POLICE REPORT
RED BANK: Police blotter for October includes the arrests in two separate incidents of men from Holmdel and a Keansburg for the aggravated assault of a police officer.
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November 18th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: CENTRADA, CITARELLA’S SITE, BROOKS BROTHERS IN CHURN
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, an NYC chef plans a new market in the former Citarella's site, Centrada gets cerrada, and much more. (Click to read.)
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October 20th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK POLICE: MAN CHARGED IN BACK-TO-BACK ASSAULTS; GRAFFITI SPREE CONTINUES
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RED BANK: Police blotter for September includes DWI arrests, graffiti report and a Brick man arrrested for two assaults in two days. (Click to read.)
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October 20th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK: INSOMNIA COOKIES, “STREET” EATS AND MORE FILL BIZ VACANCIES
RED BANK: Mexican eatery Toro Rojo closes, while Insomnia cookies and a flurry of other new arrivals are filling fill a string of vacant storefronts along Broad Street. The latest in Retail Churn. (click to read)
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September 18th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: GRAFFITI, DUI’S KEEP POLICE BUSY IN AUGUST
RED BANK: Police blotter for August includes two DUI arrests and 11 incidents of vandalism.
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September 15th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: IN MEMORY OF THOSE KILLED ON SEPT. 11, 2001
RED BANK: Locals to gather at Riverside Gardens Park to remember those who lost their lives in the horrific September 11, 2001 attacks. Monmouth County also has a slate of remembrance events.
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September 10th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: VANDALISM FILLS JULY POLICE BLOTTER
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RED BANK: A graffiti spree dominated the crime report for July. (click to read)
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August 18th, 2025 @ 8am
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APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.