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Getting here is less of a circus for many customers, says Joe Azzolina Sr. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Local supermarket magnate Joe Azzolina Sr. has purchased the Stop & Shop on Newman Springs Road in Shrewsbury and is reconfiguring it...
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By LINDA G. RASTELLI Yes, there's a mention of a bar in the concept plan for what a made-over Fair Haven business district might look like. But that's as racy as it gets. Borough residents are emphatic that they're "very...
William Neumann, the Fair Haven wicker-furniture dealer who was arrested in March for defrauding 83 customers out of $290,000, has been indicted, the Asbury Park Press reports. The indictment, handed up by a Monmouth County grand jury on Monday, reduced...
The Breeders' Cup organization and the owner of the Molly Pitcher Inn and Oyster Point hotels reached a courthouse deal yesterday on hotel rates during this weekend's races at Monmouth Park, the Asbury Park Press reports. A dispute had arisen...
Fairways that doglegged around cubicles. Water hazards jammed up against the copier. Sand traps among the tax court analyses. The Curchin Open, a miniature golf tourney put on by he accounting firm Curchin Group, had its second edition in the...
The first 72 hours of 2008 will be busy ones for the critters at Fins and Feathers, a pet store at the corner of Monmouth Street and Maple Avenue. They'll be hopping, flying and skittering a couple of hundred yards...
The owner of the Metropolitan condo complex now under construction on Wallace Street has acquired the Broad Street home of Murphy Style Grill, redbankgreen has learned. Onyx Equities, a real estate investment firm based in Woodbridge, completed the $3 million...
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the SeaStreak ferry service from Atlantic Highlands and Highlands to Manhattan may be jeopardized by the sale of the service's four vessels to the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. From the report, by...
Its signs, and tiny cars, may have seemed ubiquitous. And the basic idea — transacting home sales at commission rates lower than those typically offered by real estate brokers — seemed like a winner. But local upstart Foxtons is sputtering...
Red Bank RiverCenter's new executive director is Nancy Adams, a downtown revitalization consultant from Maplewood, who replaces longtime agency head Tricia Rumola. RiverCenter announced the hire in a press release issued this afternoon. redbankgreen hasn't yet heard back from Adams...
There's lots of empty space as Michael Bonney transitions his Monmouth Street shop from a newsstand to a convenience store. By LINDA G. RASTELLI When Michael Bonney bought Red Bank News in May, it seemed the decades-old monument to print...
By LINDA G. RASTELLI The building's roof is somewhat swaybacked, and the slatted wood walls are fringed near the ground by the ravages of water. But it serves its purpose. Likewise for the elderly pair who own this place. Essie...
Slashing sticker prices and throwing in extra amenities, Hovnanian Enterprises reports that its weekend sales push on new housing units nationwide exceeded expectations. Wall Street cheered the report, boosting the battered homebuilder's stock price yesterday. From a report on Bloomberg.com:...
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Today's Star-Ledger reports that Red Bank-based homebuilding giant Hovnanian Enterprises is cutting prices and offering incentives worth up to $240,000 on unsold new homes, discounts that industry experts call unprecedented. From the story, by business reporter Joe Perone: Just a...
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a reorganization plan for the remaining assets of the former Kara Homes, the Asbury Park Press reports. The deal means that work will resume on 11 residential housing developments stalled by Kara's insolvency last...
It is perhaps the single most contentious issue in Red Bank: whether the downtown needs a parking garage. Merchants, in general, say yes. They complain that a shortage of street and lot parking is choking their businesses and undermining broader...
So who or what is Trader Joe's? It's a food store with rabid devotees that allows customers to taste anything and return anything, no questions asked. The only exception? Selections from the wine department, which carries 'Two-Buck Chuck,' the Charles...
The New York Times has picked up on the story of pop star Bon Jovi's legal efforts to flush a cold caffeinated beverage called Mijovi. Bon Jovi contends that the Mijovi name and the marketing tagline "itsmilife" infringe on his...
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CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...