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RED BANK: NJ TRANSIT HAS BIG PLANS BUT FEWER RIDERS
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NJ Transit is planning a massive redevelopment of the Red Bank train station area amid a new reality few saw coming: 65 percent fewer train riders. (click to read)
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April 8th, 2025 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: MONMOUTH STREET SIDEWALK PROJECT BEGINS
Three months of construction to replace and improve sidewalks begins on Monmouth Street in Red Bank this week. 
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March 31st, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: MARINE PARK TRANSFORMATION BEGINS
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Bulldozers move in as the second phase of a dramatic transformation of Red Bank's signature waterfront park begins.(click to read)
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March 20th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: VNA DEMOLITION BEGINS TO CLEAR WAY FOR APARTMENTS
What's going on here? Former VNA building is being reduced to rubble to make way for 212 apartment building. (click to read)
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March 4th, 2025 @ 8am
‘DUMB BOXES’ AND ‘TEXAS DONUTS’: TRAIN STATION PROJECT BRINGS DESIGN DEBATE TO RED BANK
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As Red Bank prepares to join the ranks of towns redeveloping around train stations we ask, "Why do all these buildings look like that?" (click to read)
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February 26th, 2025 @ 1pm
REPORT: RED BANK BUILDER DENHOLTZ AIMS HIGH WITH NEW BIZ MODEL, BIG PLANS
Red Bank train station zone developer Denholtz emerges as a private investment management firm, as new CEO tells business web site: "We want to be doing deals. Denholtz is ready to go.” Click to read.
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February 25th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BANK STREET JUNKER SUES OVER TOWED VEHICLES
Red Bank junker sues police-contracted towing company for the return of four vehicles and a trailer of lumber. It's the latest chapter in a two decade battle over the defacto junkyard. (click to read)
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February 20th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK TRAIN STATION REDEVELOPMENT: HOW THE PROCESS WORKS
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Red Bank's train station redevelopment: where does it stand and when does the public get their say? (click to read)
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February 17th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: BIRRAVINO OWNER PLANS TO BUY, “CLEAN UP” EYESORE GAS STATION
Owner of Red Bank eatery Birravino announces he's under contract to buy the eyesore vacant gas station at the town's northern entrance. (click to read)
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February 13th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BORO RAKES IN SOME GREEN WITH CANNABIS TAX, BUT HOW MUCH?
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Red Bank's recreational weed market just completed its first quarter operating a full capacity. How much did the the town make in taxes? (click to read)
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February 12th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK TRAIN STATION REDEVELOPMENT PLAN ADDS…TRAIN STATION
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Red Bank is seeking to add six properties to its train station redevelopment plan, including the train station platform area and a rail yard. (click to read)
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February 5th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: 400 APARTMENTS, GREEN PLAZA, NEW STREETS IN TRAIN STATION PLAN
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Developer unveils proposal to transform area around Red Bank train station into a neighborhood of apartment buildings and public plazas. (click to read)
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December 18th, 2024 @ 12am
RED BANK: ENVIROS SEEK TO QUELL GAS LEAF BLOWERS
The war on gas powered leaf blowers is coming to Red Bank. But unlike the battles over them in communities across the US – and the machines themselves – the approach for now is hoped to be quiet and gentle.
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October 14th, 2024 @ 10pm
RED BANK: NEW APARTMENTS FILL IN A FLASH
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A new apartment building at Allen Place and Riverside Avenue opens and fills quick. One bedrooms rent for $3,150. Two beds? $3,700. (click to read)
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October 10th, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BOROUGH KEEPS IT LOCAL WITH LIAISON HIRE
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A community worker with deep ties to Red Bank is chosen to fill a new liaison position at Borough Hall. (click to read)
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August 13th, 2024 @ 11am
JERSEY STRONG CLOSING RED BANK GYM
RED BANK: Jersey Strong gym announces the closure of its West Front Street location. (Click to read)
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August 12th, 2024 @ 6pm
RED BANKERS POST WISH LIST FOR TRAIN STATION PLAN
Red Bank residents present flurry of ideas for massive train station redevelopment plan as tax abatement issue rears its head. (click to read)
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July 31st, 2024 @ 11pm
RED BANK: CONDO BUILDING GETS GREEN LIGHT
Red Bank Planning Board approves a 20-unit condo building across the street from the train station. (click to read)
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July 25th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL SWALLOWS “HARD TRUTH” ON WATER RATES
Red Bank council members call water rate hike painful but necessary - and better than privatization. (click to read)
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June 28th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: LET’S TALK WATER BILLS
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RED BANK: How much should the borough be charging you for water? A public meeting on that question slated for Wednesday. (click for more)
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June 19th, 2024 @ 2pm
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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 ...