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When the wraps come off, the retailer is expected to occupy all the street-level space formerly divided among four businesses. After months of speculation, it's official: Urban Outfitters is coming to Red Bank, delivering what retailers hope will be a...
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May 20th, 2009 @ 4pm
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Sale prices on existing homes in the area that includes Monmouth County plunged 11.3 percent in the first quarter, today's Absury Park Press reports. The National Association of Realtors pegged the median home price in the Central Jersey region at...
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May 13th, 2009 @ 7am
Video documentarian Bill Day is back with another short, this time focusing on the impact of the recession on boaters and the vendors who depend on them in Red Bank. Among the locals interviewed are John Matteo and Chann Irwin...
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April 28th, 2009 @ 11am
Claudette Herring and Lauren Phillips-Daly in the doorway of their soon-to-be restaurant, Via 45. The closing of Thyme Square restaurant in Red Bank a few months back was so abrupt that, until about a week ago, one could still peer...
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April 15th, 2009 @ 10am
Red Bank employees who work in borough hall at 90 Monmouth Street will have to start packing their workweeks into four days starting in June as part of an effort to cut utility costs. The move, approved by the borough...
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April 15th, 2009 @ 7am
With a parking deck topped by two floors of offices, Galleria Park would connect to the existing building via a two-level footbridge. Below, a view of the proposed structure from West Front Street. (Click to enlarge) The nation's economy may...
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March 19th, 2009 @ 1pm
The aim is to boost occupancy in the luxury building, a spokeswoman says. A sign at the entrance (below) now touts lease deals. (Click to enlarge) Red Bank's Metropolitan condo project, having failed to attract buyers both through conventional sales...
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March 17th, 2009 @ 10am
Gov. Jon Corzine during his budget address to the Legislature on Tuesday. (Photo by Tim Larsen) Is there a New Jerseyan anywhere who savors the words "state budget?" In these economic times, the phrase is apt to turn even the...
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March 12th, 2009 @ 10am
Hovnanian's head office, as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue. Red Bank-headquartered Hovnanian Enterprises, one of the nation's largest homebuilding companies, saw its losses accelerate in the most recent quarter. The company posted a net loss of $178.4. million...
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March 11th, 2009 @ 6am
It wasn't hard to find visitors pumping coins into meters in Red Bank's White Street lot at lunchtime last Saturday. Above, Nicole Collman of Manalapan, left, with Rebecca Route of Jamesburg. With some fanfare, Mayor Pasquale Menna announced at last...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 8am
Following up on last week's redbankgreen feature about Pim Van Hemmen and his Do1Thing.org, effort, we thought readers might be interested in this Ledger Live video from yesterday. In addition to a short report on the Do1Thing event at Covenant...
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February 18th, 2009 @ 11am
Mayor Pasquale Menna speaks as RiverCenter executive director Nancy Adams looks on. Through all the reports that things are worse elsewhere and exhortations that merchants find "opportunity" in the current recession, the topic that the 300 or so people who...
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January 28th, 2009 @ 8am
Big Bill Morganfield performs at the 2007 Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival. Which is hipper, jazz or blues? Or is it the festival itself that's 'hip?' Parking shortages. Exorbitant parking fines. Red tape at borough hall. Greedy landlords. Among...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 10am
Prospective buyers packed a ballroom at the Molly Pitcher Inn, but few bid. An auction of units at the nearly completed Metropolitan condo project on Red Bank's Wallace Street was halted early Saturday afternoon after just two were sold. Officials...
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January 24th, 2009 @ 3pm
Emily Asher Neiman works the room at an opening in September. By TOM CHESEK Veteran observers of Red Bank's commercial streetscape know that the phenomenon known as "the Retail Churn" goes into overdrive each January, regardless of the general economic...
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January 7th, 2009 @ 6am
Fans gather at the Stash for a 2006 appearance by Kevin Smith. Filmmaker Kevin Smith is closing the Los Angeles version of the Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash store, according to reports. As reported on News Askew, the official...
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January 6th, 2009 @ 7am
Mayor Pasquale Menna. In the face of an historic economic downturn, Red Bank is trimming pay for its planning and zoning board attorneys, looking at a five-percent, across-all-departments budget cut and trying to hold the line in contract talks with...
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January 2nd, 2009 @ 10am
Ed Zipprich and Juanita Lewis make their New Year's Day debuts as elected officials. Running mates Juanita Lewis and Ed Zipprich, who drubbed their Republican opponents in the November election, were sworn in as council members at yesterday's annual reorganization...
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January 2nd, 2009 @ 9am
The building, nearing completion, stands on the former site of Dorn's Photography and several old houses. The developer of The Metropolitan, a 37-unit condo project on Wallace Street in Red Bank, will auction off 31 of them at deeply slashed...
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December 19th, 2008 @ 9am
HOV HQ on West Front Street, Red Bank. A near stoppage in mortgage lending drove Hovnanian Enterprises to its ninth consecutive quarterly loss in the period ending October 31, the Red Bank-based homebuilder reported yesterday. According to Bloomberg, the loss...
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December 17th, 2008 @ 7am
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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
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.