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RED BANK CONCERTS, MOVIES, & FITNESS IN THE PARK RETURNS
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Red Bank Summer Series at Riverside Gardens Park, with fitness, movies and concerts begins this week.
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July 1st, 2025 @ 12pm
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RED BANK CHURN: LIQUOR STORE PLANS BROAD STREET OPENING
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a liquor store plans to open inside long vacant shop on Broad Street, and Nashville-Pakistani chicken and make-your-own candles spots prep to open. (click to read)
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June 25th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK 5K, BIKE BLESSING TOP WEEKEND SLATE
Two big annual events - the Red Bank Classic 5k and Pilgrim Baptist Church's Community Festival top the slate for a jam packed Red Bank weekend. (click to read)
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June 12th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: COOKIES, BUBBLE TEA, CANDLES AND COFFEE SHOPS OPEN
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RED BANK: A coffee and sandwich shop, a coffee and candle shop, and a bubble tea shop open up. Oh and Danny's Steak House booze license gets sold, all that and more in Retail Churn. (click to read)
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May 27th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: “BROADWALK,” BROAD STREET TRAFFIC CLOSURE BEGINS
Red Bank's annual closure of the northermost section of Broad Street to vehicles begins Monday. (click to read)
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May 12th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK WEEKEND: FARMERS MARKET, RECORD RIOT AND WHERE TO PARK FOR IT ALL
Red Bank weekend: A record fair, the return of the Red Bank Farmers Market and a list of places to park for it all. (click to read)
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May 9th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: PORK ROLL, TACO EATERIES TOP ‘BEST OF’ LISTS
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Red Bank eateries Johnny's Pork Roll and Mexican International Food land on web site's top restaurant lists. (click to read)
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May 7th, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK CHURN: FUNERAL HOME FOR SALE, NEW MENSWEAR SHOP VANISHES AND MORE
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a Rolex dealer and a toy shop move to bigger digs, while a "comfy chic" boutique opens and a menswear shop disappears after a fiery five-month run. (click to read)
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April 17th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK PLANNING BOARD GETS AN EARFUL ON TRAIN STATION PLAN
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Residents sound off on a plan that would allow up to 400 apartments, green space and 725 parking spaces near the Red Bank train station. (click to read)
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April 10th, 2025 @ 9am
PHOTOS: ST. PATRICK’S DAY IN RED BANK
St. Patrick's Day drew green-clad revelers to Red Bank to celebrate and redbankgreen was out and about to capture the vibes in photos. (click for more)
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March 17th, 2025 @ 7pm
RED BANK THROWBACK: RED BANK’S BOOZE LIMIT SET 90 YEARS AGO
A look back 90 years ago as Red Bank commissioners set a ceiling on liquor license that still stands today. (click to read)
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March 3rd, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: LIQUOR STORE GETS PARTIAL OK, BOARD SEEKS BIGGER SPRUCE-UP
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A Red Bank liquor store's plan to move to a larger location in a former mechanic shop on Shrewsbury Avenue gets a partial ok. (click to read)
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February 24th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: LIQUOR STORE LOOKS TO MAKE IT A DOUBLE
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Red Bank liquor store looks to double its space with a move across the street. (click to read)
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February 19th, 2025 @ 4pm
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: AU REVOIR, CE LA VI? OWNERS PACK UP TWO EATERIES
Red Bank eateries Ce La Vi, Whipped and Toss'd all appear to be on the way out after owner vents about rent hikes and business climate. (click to read)
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February 10th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK RETAIL CHURN: FOOD MARKET TAKES SHAPE, TOY SHOP AND LIQUOR STORE ON THE MOVE
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Kiosks selling fish, meat, cheese, noodles and more planned for former Sickles market site. And a toy shop, liquor store and convenience store all eye in-town moves. Red Bank's retail churn continues. (click to read)
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January 22nd, 2025 @ 1pm
MR. PIZZA SLICE FOUNDER DIES, PROTEGE LOOKS TO BUY RED BANK EATERY
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Mr. Pizza Slice: as founder of beloved Red Bank eatery dies, the man he hired and taught seeks to carry on his legacy. (click to read)
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January 3rd, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK WEEKEND: BENEFIT FOR SLAIN CABBIE, ICE CARVING, HOLIDAY MUSIC
It's the weekend before Christmas and the downtown sure looks, feels, tastes and sounds like it.
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December 20th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK CHURN: “CHELSEA MARKET” OK’D, LEBANESE DELI CLOSES AND MORE
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, plans for a market in the former Sickles market space emerge, two eateries pack it in and more. (click to read)
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December 4th, 2024 @ 4pm
RED BANK RIVERCENTER NAMES NEW LEADER
Red Bank RiverCenter taps the head of Toms River's special improvement district to lead the organization. (click to read)
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December 2nd, 2024 @ 12pm
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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 ...
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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.