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RED BANK: UBER DRIVER THEFT; SIX BIKES AND COOKING OIL STOLEN IN MAY POLICE BLOTTER
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RED BANK: Red Bank man arrested three times in 17 days. Six bikes and a $500 vat of used cooking stolen. A rundown of crimes and arrests for May.
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June 20th, 2025 @ 11am
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RED BANK: COOKIES, BUBBLE TEA, CANDLES AND COFFEE SHOPS OPEN
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SURF'S UP coffee and candles 19 Monmouth Street 052025
RED BANK: A coffee and sandwich shop, a coffee and candle shop, and a bubble tea shop open up. Oh and Danny's Steak House booze license gets sold, all that and more in Retail Churn. (click to read)
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May 27th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: CAT CONVERTER JACKED, COPS MAKE 6 DWI ARRESTS IN APRIL
RED BANK: Police blotter for April includes six DWI arrests, an aggravated assault and a catalytic converter heist. (click to read)
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May 20th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK CHURN: FUNERAL HOME FOR SALE, NEW MENSWEAR SHOP VANISHES AND MORE
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a Rolex dealer and a toy shop move to bigger digs, while a "comfy chic" boutique opens and a menswear shop disappears after a fiery five-month run. (click to read)
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April 17th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: NINE DWI’S, SHOOTING ARREST IN MARCH POLICE BLOTTER
RED BANK: Police blotter for March includes an arrest for attempted murder, nine people arrested for DUI and other offenses.
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April 11th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK COPS: CRIME-FREE VALENTINE’S, BUT DWI’S AND MORE FILL FEB BLOTTER
RED BANK: Police blotter for February includes smattering of DWI's, thefts, assaults. (click to read the full report)
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March 7th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: ASSAULTS AND DWI KEPT COPS BUSY IN JANUARY
RED BANK: Police blotter for January includes a big porch pirate heist, DWI's and multiple aggravated assaults. (click to read)
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February 14th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BABY STROLLER STOLEN, MAN ARRESTED FOR AGGRAVATED ASSAULT IN DECEMBER POLICE REPORTS
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RED BANK: Police blotter for December includes man arrested for aggravated assault and other charges, along with porch thefts and stolen stroller.
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January 10th, 2025 @ 1pm
CATALYTIC CONVERTER, PACKAGE THEFTS TOP RED BANK CRIME REPORT
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RED BANK: Thieves steal five catalytic converters in one night and Amazon packages from front porches. Read the November police report. (click to read)
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December 17th, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK CHURN: “CHELSEA MARKET” OK’D, LEBANESE DELI CLOSES AND MORE
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, plans for a market in the former Sickles market space emerge, two eateries pack it in and more. (click to read)
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December 4th, 2024 @ 4pm
COOKING OIL HEIST, EGGINGS, DWI’s ON OCTOBER POLICE REPORTS
RED BANK: Police blotter for October includes arrests for DWI and assault, criminal mischief and the theft of a $1,000 container of cooking oil. (click to read)
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November 19th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK CHURN: POT SHOP AND TACOS ARRIVE; WOOD WORKER SPLITS
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Red Bank's third weed shop opens, along with a new taco place; a furniture shop departs and more in retail churn news. (click to read)
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October 23rd, 2024 @ 5pm
RED BANK: ASSAULTS AND WEAPONS ARRESTS IN SEPTEMBER POLICE REPORTS
RED BANK: Police blotter for September includes weapons arrests, aggravated assault and stolen Halloween decorations. (click to read)
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October 18th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK CHURN: VINTAGE SHOP SPLITS FOR ASBURY; RUG SHOP IN LIMBO
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A vintage/consignment shop leaves to find more funk in Asbury and an eight-decade run for a family-owned rug shop is in limbo. The latest in Red Bank's retail churn. (click to read)
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September 30th, 2024 @ 5pm
AN UPDATE ON redbankgreen NEWSLETTER
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Technical problems have resulted in the redbankgreen newsletter missing content or not being sent out a few times over the past week. A new revamped newsletter is in the works.
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September 21st, 2024 @ 7pm
RED BANK: MISCHIEF & ASSAULTS ON AUGUST POLICE BLOTTER
RED BANK: Two aggravated assaults and an arrest for sexual assault on the August police blotter. (click to read)
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September 18th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: NEW WEED SHOP AND AN ICONIC BUILDING FLIP IN CHURN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a new weed shop opens and an iconic Broad Street Building vacant for 12 years is being flipped. (click to read)
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September 18th, 2024 @ 8am
GROWIN’ UP WITH SPRINGSTEEN, OFF BROAD
RED BANK: The untold story of the coffeehouse that had a lifelong impact on local teens while helping to launch the career of an 18-year-old singer named Bruce Springsteen.
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September 12th, 2024 @ 7am
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.
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September 10th, 2024 @ 11pm
RED BANK: ITALIAN FOOD AND FASHION IN CHURN
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, the launch of a new Italian restaurant, a made-to-fit menswear shop and a new juice and smoothie shop (click to read)
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August 30th, 2024 @ 7am
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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.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.