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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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK, KILLED BY TRAIN
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For the second time in less than a month, a pedestrian was struck and killed by a New Jersey Transit train at the Monmouth Street crossing, police said.
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October 8th, 2024 @ 3pm
RED BANK: POLICE FOOT CHASE ON COOPER’S BRIDGE ENDS IN GUN/DRUG ARREST
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Red Bank police chase suspect on foot across the Route 35 bridge and find him allegedly carrying a .22 caliber handgun. (click to read)
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October 8th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK PORCHFEST RETURNS FOR THIRD YEAR
Who knew your neighbor down the street could sing so well? Celebrating the many marvels of Red Bank Porchfest, which returns Saturday with more than 90 acts performing across town. (click to read)
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October 3rd, 2024 @ 7am
SEASON OF PICKLEBALL MADNESS WRAPS UP AT NEW RED BANK COURTS
The first season of Red Bank's new pickleball courts drew big turnouts and huge demand. Next season might see some new rules to manage it all. (click to read)
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October 2nd, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK CHURN: VINTAGE SHOP SPLITS FOR ASBURY; RUG SHOP IN LIMBO
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A vintage/consignment shop leaves to find more funk in Asbury and an eight-decade run for a family-owned rug shop is in limbo. The latest in Red Bank's retail churn. (click to read)
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September 30th, 2024 @ 5pm
RED BANK: BROADWALK WRAPS UP; STREET OPENS TO TRAFFIC TUESDAY
RED BANK: Broad Street re-opens to traffic between Front and White Street Tuesday as Broadwalk season wraps up. (click to read)
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September 30th, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK POLICE CHIEF RESIGNS, SETTLING ETHICS CHARGES
Red Bank police chief accused by the state of burying discipline cases against his girlfriend resigns. A new chief will be sworn in next month. (click to read)
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September 27th, 2024 @ 5pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL OK’S SECURITY CAMS
Vandals and miscreants, get ready for your close up. Cameras are coming to Red Bank parks and parking lots. (click to read)
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September 27th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: MUSIC ACADEMY FINDS NEW HOME IN LANDMARK BUILDING
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Asbury Park based Lakehouse Music Academy cut the ribbon on its new facility inside the 142-year-old former Red Bank borough hall. (click to read)
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September 26th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: COUNCIL EYES SECURITY CAMERAS
Security camera on the Mount Vernon river walk.
Red Bank considers installing security cameras at a dozen public spaces around town. (click to read)
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September 24th, 2024 @ 6pm
RED BANK: POT SHOP HOPEFULS SUE BOROUGH FOR LICENSE
A cannabis retail business shut out by Red Bank’s three-shop limit is suing the Borough demanding officials issue more licenses. (click to read)
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September 23rd, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: CHEAP FINDS AND PRICELESS MOMENTS AT TOWNWIDE YARD SALE
Haggling over leaf blowers and rejoicing at a dog-playing-poker shirt. redbankgreen cameras capture the action at the town wide yard sale (click for more)
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September 21st, 2024 @ 9pm
RED BANK: TOWNWIDE GARAGE SALE, OKTOBERFEST ON TAP
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Eighty sellers lined up for town-wide yard sale, with Oktoberfest to follow. Details on a big Red Bank weekend here. (click to read)
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September 20th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: AS NEIGHBORS OBJECT, HISTORIC DISTRICT IS TABLED
Preservation commission taps the brakes on plan to create a new historic districts after homeowners object. (click to read).
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September 19th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MISCHIEF & ASSAULTS ON AUGUST POLICE BLOTTER
RED BANK: Two aggravated assaults and an arrest for sexual assault on the August police blotter. (click to read)
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September 18th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: NEW WEED SHOP AND AN ICONIC BUILDING FLIP IN CHURN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a new weed shop opens and an iconic Broad Street Building vacant for 12 years is being flipped. (click to read)
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September 18th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: FILM SHOOT BRINGS “BEAST” TO WEST FRONT STREET
Film and TV superstar Claire Danes' new Netflix series filming on the street in Red Bank (click to read).
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September 17th, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK: MARINE PARK LOT PROCEEDS WHILE PARKLET PAUSES
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New parking lot at Marine Park completed, while Monmouth Street "parklet" hits a snag. (click to read)
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September 16th, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: WEST FRONT STREET TRAFFIC ALERT
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West Front Street will be closed intermittently Tuesday between Broad Street and Maple Avenue for a film production (click to read)
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September 15th, 2024 @ 12pm
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(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 ...
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.