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The Wingmen Driving Service, introduced to the world by redbankgreen back in June, is the subject of a 'Talk of the Town' piece in this week's New Yorker magazine. The business, started by four college-aged Rumson men not old enough...
David Larotonda checks out a GEM electric car on Madison Avenue earlier this year. Yes, the borough vehicles will have doors. After a short-circuited bid last spring, the Borough of Red Bank is back on the fast track to energy...
The good news, we suppose, is that you don't have to get on a toll road to get there. Assemblywoman and state Senate candidate Jennifer Beck of Red Bank will co-host a town hall meeting tonight in Freehold Township to...
Having adopted a measure to cut back on nightlife noise from restaurants and bars in the business district, the Red Bank Council last night turned its attention to a quality-of-lifer in residential areas: late-night car honking. The problem, given the...
Click map to enlarge A full three hours before the first of some 4,000 pieces of fireworks is lofted into the sky above the Navesink Tuesday night, the streets of central Red Bank will be closed to vehicular traffic. Which...
A Tiffany clock sold for $6,000, and a pair of Tiffany lamps went for another six grand. A 1964 Chevy Impala SS went for $16,000. But that Navesink River-front mansion we told you about last week — the one that...
By LINDA G. RASTELLI What do you do if you're out on the town and you realize you've had one too many? You know you shouldn't get behind the wheel. You could call a cab, but your car is sitting...
After a five-day grace period, Sea Bright police have begun ticketing motorists for exceeding new speed limits just north and south of the downtown, the Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: Police today issued 10 speeding tickets during the...
Mayor Pasquale Menna lashed out last night at "little juveniles" from out of town whom he blames for recently grafitti-bombing the public library and loitering in front of stores near West Front Street and Maple Avenue. His remarks came amid...
Those two new electric cars we told you about last week, the ones Red Bank planned to buy to replace the three-wheeled Cushmans used by parking enforcement? It turns out they can't meet the state requirement that they be able...
In a case that was moved to Red Bank Municipal Court to avoid the appearance of partiality, a Wall Township police captain was cleared of a drunken driving charge despite evidence that a Breathalyzer test showed him at twice the...
By LINDA G. RASTELLI When you’re redoing a downtown, as rookie Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre is discovering, you can’t please everyone. Exhibit A: the borough’s streetscape plan, which calls for the sidewalks from Memorial Park to Oak Place to...
Red Bank police are investigating a report of an unidentified man trying to enter a car driven by a Red Bank Catholic senior while she was stopped downtown at a red light on Tuesday afternoon. The 18-year-old driver, who was...
A Monmouth County grand jury has decided not to indict local publisher Claudia Ansorge for her role in the motor-vehicle death last April of a Riverview Medical Center employee, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. The decision not to indict...
The signs announcing a two-hour parking limit along Maple Avenue have been there so long that they're faded. But it seems nobody in borough hall can explain why there was no ordinance putting legal teeth behind the signs. Apparently, there...
For any motorist who's ever been stuck at the intersection of Newman Springs Road and Broad Street while not one but two trains halt traffic, a smidgen of relief is on the way. And for any pedestrian who's tried to...
Red Bank RiverCenter officials are mulling the purchase of vending machines that dispense debit cards usable in borough parking meters, according to a story in today's Asbury Park Press. The so-called smart cards are available for sale at borough hall...
Jammed up by a Democratic majority at odds with his demand for a reduction in the $38 overtime parking fine, Councilman John Curley last night offered a compromise plan, and then agreed to wait and see about its feasibilty. Curley...
The Asbury Park Press is backing Councilman John Curley's push for a reduction in overtime parking fines in Red Bank from $38 to $25, a move some of the Democratic majority says will blow a $188,000 hole in the borough...
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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 ...
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.