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PLANNING BOARD OK’S RED BANK TRAIN STATION REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
News Red Bank Train Station Redevelopment Plan The Rail South. Denholtz rendering.
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Red Bank train station development plan gets Planning Board approval after being scaled back from 400 to about 351 apartments. (click to read)
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June 11th, 2025 @ 11pm
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RED BANK: TRAIN STATION PLAN SHAVES ONE FLOOR OFF BUILDING HEIGHT
News RED BANK: TRAIN STATION PLAN SHAVES ONE FLOOR OFF BUILDING HEIGHT
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Red Bank planners shave one floor off the maximum building height and make other tweaks to the massive train station redevelopment plan. (click to read)
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June 9th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: PRIDE CELEBRATION TOPS WEEKEND
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The word "Love" is painted in the grass at Riverside Gardens Park and the flag is raised as Red Bank prepares for its annual Pride celebration. (click to read)
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June 6th, 2025 @ 12pm
NO LEFT TURN? RED BANK PLANS CHANGES AT SKETCHY INTERSECTION
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Red Bank moves to ban a left turn and install a pedestrian island at one of its most notoriously sketchy intersections. (click to read)
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June 5th, 2025 @ 10pm
RED BANK: MR. FOREST GOES TO THE MASONIC LODGE
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A mixup or miscommunication leaves an affable councilman alone in the hot seat at a community meeting. (click to read)
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June 3rd, 2025 @ 5pm
AS LUXURY BUILDINGS RISE, RED BANK’S “MISSING MIDDLE” DISAPPEARS
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As Red Bank builds more affordable housing and luxury units/million-dollar condos rise by the hundreds, where will people in the middle live? (click to read)
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June 2nd, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: BOROUGH OFFICIALS PLAN “COMMUNITY CONVERSATION”
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Borough of Red Bank plans community meeting to discuss "borough efforts, projects, roads, parks, public safety, and more." (click to read)
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June 1st, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: COOKIES, BUBBLE TEA, CANDLES AND COFFEE SHOPS OPEN
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SURF'S UP coffee and candles 19 Monmouth Street 052025
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 HONORS THE FALLEN
News Red Bank Borough Memorial Day ceremony 2025
Several hundred gathered to honor the nation's war dead at Red Bank's annual Memorial Day ceremony. (click to read)
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May 26th, 2025 @ 8pm
RED BANK: CONDO BUILD PAUSES, BUT JUST FOR QUALITY, BUILDER SAYS
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West Front Street condo project pauses construction, but developer promises Shore's "most luxurious" building will soon be done. (click to read)
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May 21st, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK: CAT CONVERTER JACKED, COPS MAKE 6 DWI ARRESTS IN APRIL
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RED BANK: Police blotter for April includes six DWI arrests, an aggravated assault and a catalytic converter heist. (click to read)
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May 20th, 2025 @ 4pm
POLL: WHAT IS YOUR OPINION OF BROADWALK?
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Take our redbankgreen reader poll on Broadwalk, Red Bank's annual downtown pedestrian plaza. (click for more)
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May 15th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: “BROADWALK,” BROAD STREET TRAFFIC CLOSURE BEGINS
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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
AFTER CLEANUP GAINS, NAVESINK RIVER POLLUTION PERSISTS
News marine park rally for the two rivers Madeline DePrimo and George Kwiecinski
Efforts to reduce human and animal waste pollution in the Navesink River pollution were making headway. The pandemic was a major setback. (click to read).
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May 6th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: CANNABIS GROWERS SAY PARTNER TOSSED $500K CROP IN DUMPSTER
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Partners in a Red Bank indoor pot farm say the owner tossed hundreds of pounds of weed in a dumpster as part a plot to freeze them out of the business. (click to read)
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May 5th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: SCHOOL TAX HIKE TRIMMED TO 10 PERCENT
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A planned 13 percent hike in Red Bank school taxes is whittled down to ten percent by a last minute curveball from Trenton. (click to read)
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April 30th, 2025 @ 1pm
“RED BANK’S READY” TEAM ANNOUNCES COUNCIL SLATE
News Kristina Bonatakis, Ben Forest, Laura Jannone and Ben Yuro 042025
The team of candidates that swept Borough Council elections in 2023 announces who will run for four open seats in November. (click to read)
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April 29th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK BUDGET STICKS TO TWO PERCENT TAX HIKE
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Red Bank officials unveil a 2025 budget that raises spending and borough taxes by two percent. (click to read)
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April 28th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK PLANNERS TAP BRAKES ON TRAIN STATION PLAN
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Red Bank Planning Board delays vote on massive redevelopment plan to consider lower building heights and other changes. (click to read)
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April 24th, 2025 @ 7am
COURT UPHOLDS RED BANK POLICE CROSSWALK STING
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A drivers' attempt to fight a ticket issued during a police sting crashes and burns. Twice. (click to read)
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April 22nd, 2025 @ 7am
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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.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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 ...