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You're on your way into a restaurant you've been dying to check out, and just as you near the door, it hits you: the cloud of nicotine exhaust you have to pass through thanks to the cigarette junkies huddled against...
No big surprise, but don't look for a Dollar Shoe store to take over the old Garmany space at 105 Broad Street. Owner Larry Garmany tells redbankgreen he's close to an anchor lease deal for the red brick building, which...
Apparently, it'll take three feet to fill the big empty shoe left behind by Garmany when it vacated the old post office for its current space in the longtime Steinbach's building last year. The high-end clothing retailer has submitted a...
Two weeks after his election, and six weeks before he's to be sworn in, Mayor-elect Pat Menna moved to put his stamp on Red Bank Monday night, introducing a plan to expand the special-assessment business district known as RiverCenter to...
Elected officials suddenly went into lips-zipped mode on the topic of Best Liquors last night, asking citizens to refrain from discussing or inquiring about the case of the controversial West Side retailer during the public portion of the borough council's...
Kim Sambucci was sitting at her desk at Golf Greens Fore U on Shrewsbury Avenue late last Friday afternoon when she heard “an explosion, like a car crashing into the building.” But it wasn’t a car Sambucci saw when she...
Sunny’s back in biz, and dialing up the charm. Sunny Sharma of Best Liquors has his store back online after a brief shutdown for fire code violations. And he’s gone proactive, trying to cool the anger of neighbors who want...
At the annual meeting of RiverCenter on Monday night, Ingeborg Perndorfer of The Language School passed around photos of downtown planters spilling over with colorful flowers. Architect Stephen Raciti emceed a series of awards for downtown building improvements. And departing...
Hey, we all make mistakes. We make mistakes as individuals, and sometimes as members of businesses or other organizations that allow our failings to leak out into public view. Reporters and editors know all too well the sinking feeling that...
"Blissfully quiet," says one resident. "It's been so peaceful," says another. Those were two assessments of life at the corner of Leighton Avenue and Catherine Street yesterday, 24 hours after Red Bank officials shut down the controversial Best Liquors store...
Sea Containers Ltd., the Bermuda-based parent of ferry operator SeaStreak America, has filed for chapter 11 protection from creditors. But the operator of the Highlands and Atlantic Highlands ferries wants it known that it is not a party to the...
[UPDATE, 12:57 am, Oct. 6, 2006: After the following story was posted, Kara Homes filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, claiming assets of $350.2 million and liabilities of $296.8 million.] Kara Homes, builder of big-ticket houses on the former site...
The West Side property that's the site of Best Liquors has been home to retail businesses for 90 years. For a good part of that history, it was a grocery, but since 1965, it's been a liquor retailer, says store...
Sealfons, the largest store in the Grove, is moving out by the end of the year because of rising rents, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. The 25,000-square-foot space will be divided between Brooks Bros., which already has a store...
There's never a blade of grass out of place, it seems, at the Mac Testing & Consulting facility on the corner of Maple Avenue and Reckless Place. The green-shuttered white building, the verdant lawn and the flowerbeds surrounding the educational...
Marcia Blackwell, owner of Red Bank-based Blackwell’s Organic Gelato and Sorbetto, has been named Emerging Business Woman of the Year by the Central Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). Blackwell's Organic, which has its production...
Thirty-eight graffiti incidents have been reported in Red Bank so far this year, compared to 43 for all of 2005, according to a story by Larry Higgs in today's Asbury Park Press. Click on the image to enlarge it. The...
Here's a belated welcome to Scott Betesh and his two-month-old Broad Street emporium called Maison Blanche. Betesh, of Long Branch, comes from a family of antiques wholesalers, and he's the first to venture into the dicey game of retail. He...
Ten quick questions for Eric Auerbach of Clearview Window Cleaners, Long Branch. He's shown here at Bain's Hardware, Sea Bright. How long have you been a window-washer? About 13 years. I started off working for another company and then I...
Partyline
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 ...