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Category Archives: Commuting

Customers at the Red Bank Post Office head back out into the slush on Broad Street at noontime Friday. With this morning's snow having turned to rain, the Red Bank area is in for a wet, chilly evening, according to...
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December 19th, 2008 @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Long-awaited increases in the cost of traveling the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike went into effect at 12:01a today. From the Asbury Park Press, regarding Parkway tolls: At most booths the price will rise from their current...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 5am
Ferry commuters to Wall Street, besieged by blowback over the spreading-around-the-globe credit meltdown they helped create, will see a slight dip in the monthly fare charged by SeaStreak beginning tomorrow. Assuming, of course, that there still is a Wall Street...
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September 30th, 2008 @ 7am
Expecting someone? White tents were visible on Bon Jovi's riverfront property yesterday. Sen. Barack Obama arrives in the Red Bank area Friday evening in the hunt for campaign cash. He's sure to find a boatload. A cocktail party at one...
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September 5th, 2008 @ 7am
Monmouth County Engineer Joe Ettore silhouetted by a rendering of the proposed replacement for Hubbards Bridge. Part of the existing structure, seen in the inset, may be turned into a pocket park, shown in brown in the rendering. The news...
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July 15th, 2008 @ 9am
The Highlands Bridge as seen earlier this week, looking west from the Sandy Hook overpass. Today's Star-Ledger has a dire forecast for beachgoers heading home from Sandy Hook by car this weekend: "traffic stretching as far as the eye can...
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July 11th, 2008 @ 8am
Postal workers continue to get ticketed for a 'violation' that a lawyer contends doesn't exist on the books. The sun is high, and the RBC students who drive themselves to school are away, meaning long stretches of Hudson Avenue have...
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July 8th, 2008 @ 2pm
Following up on last night's alert, New Jersey Transit has this to say about the the North Jersey Coast Line this morning: NJCL service to operate as normal today. Last evenings storm damage has been repaired and normal service has...
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June 30th, 2008 @ 6am
A summer storm that barreled through the area set off a handful of security alarms in Red Bank Sunday afternoon and had some volunteer firefighters running from one scene to another in the downpour. According to Fire Chief Noel Blackwood,...
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June 29th, 2008 @ 7pm
The leading candidate for a replacement bridge — seen above in red — could be built with minimal shutdowns of the existing structure, proponents say. Top left, a rendering of the bridge with a pocket park on the Red Bank...
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June 20th, 2008 @ 7am
The temporary deck of the bridge was erected in 2004. Four years after its deck was replaced with a temporary metal structure, the West Front Street Bridge is again facing shutdown — this time so a permanent replacement can be...
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June 16th, 2008 @ 9am
The new sign, visible from Route 35/Riverside Avenue heading south across West Front Street. A welcome sign that the Red Bank Human Relations Committee bought got for free earlier this year to promote community togetherness has been posted at Veteran's...
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June 9th, 2008 @ 6am
The days are numbered for Garden State Parkway tokens, today's Star-Ledger reports. The board of commissioners of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which operates the parkway, is expected to vote today to stop accepting the quarter-size nickle and brass tokens...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 6am
The North Jersey Coast Line rail bridge across the Navesink River is slated for $5 million worth of upgrades, mainly on its piers, the Asbury Park Press reports today. From the story: NJ Transit's board of directors Wednesday approved a...
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May 15th, 2008 @ 6am
Already caught in a tightening squeeze on parking, employees at the Red Bank post office may now be facing a crackdown on the time they take from their posts to feed meters and move their cars, redbankgreen has learned. A...
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April 10th, 2008 @ 2pm
Looking north on Hudson Avenue this morning at 7:55a. After a brief war of the curb, Hudson Avenue homeowners and tenants last night became the latest on the East Side to win resident permits to park their cars. The victory...
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March 25th, 2008 @ 9am
Turns out there's a doozie of a story behind that train delay redbankgreen reported earlier today. Red Bank police say a motorist who ran a red light downtown early this morning decided he'd try to lose a police officer pursuing...
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March 19th, 2008 @ 2pm
A northbound train zips through the crossing at Broad Street and Newman Springs Road this morning. North Jersey Coast Line trains are now reported to be running an hour late because of delays caused by a car that had been...
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March 19th, 2008 @ 6am
SeaStreak, the ferry line that zips commuters to Wall Street and midtown Manhattan from docks in Highlands and Atlantic Highlands, appears to have found a white knight. The four-catamaran line's parent company, Sea Containers America Inc., confirmed today that it...
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March 18th, 2008 @ 2pm
The borough parking lot on White Street, as seen last September. Here's a story that will gladden the hearts of many Red Bank retailers and restaurateurs while no doubt raising hackles in other quarters. The Asbury Park Press is reporting...
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March 18th, 2008 @ 8am
Partyline
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 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
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 ...