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Category Archives: History

DOCUMENTING OLD RED BANK, BEFORE THE BULLDOZERS ARRIVE
History buff and filmmaker sets out to document a block of old Red Bank before the bulldozers and condos arrive. (click to read)
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March 17th @ 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: BOROUGH SEEKS INPUT ON JOHNNY JAZZ PARK REMAKE
Borough of Red Bank plans a makeover for Johnny Jazz Park. (Click to read)
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February 12th @ 10am
RED BANK: ICE BOATERS EYE RETURN TO NAVESINK RIVER
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Is it thick enough yet? Red Bank ice boaters raring to go as deep freeze thickens Navesink River ice. (Click to read)
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January 28th @ 7pm
REDBANKGREEN PODCAST: RED BANK’S DEVELOPMENT BOOM
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Podcast: discussing Red Bank's development boom with Planning Board Chairman Dan Mancuso. (Click to listen)
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October 28th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK THROWBACK: BORO BUYS THEATER TO CREATE MARINE PARK
100 years ago this week, the Borough of Red Bank made one of the best moves in its history: buying land to create Marine Park. (click to read)
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September 24th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK: MEMORIES TAKE FLIGHT WITH AIRPORT MURAL
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Red Bank's newest mural is based on a photo from the Dorn family collection of historic photos. It left the son of the man who took the photo almost speechless. (click to read)
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September 18th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: IN MEMORY OF THOSE KILLED ON SEPT. 11, 2001
RED BANK: Locals to gather at Riverside Gardens Park to remember those who lost their lives in the horrific September 11, 2001 attacks. Monmouth County also has a slate of remembrance events.
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September 10th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: TRAIN STATION, LOCUST LANDING PLANS SAIL THROUGH COUNCIL
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Two big votes on an emotional night as Red Bank council approves a pair of major housing initiatives: Locust Landing rehab plan and 400-apartment train station redevelopment plan. (click to read)
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July 11th, 2025 @ 12pm
CHECK OUT THESE COOL PLEIN AIR PAINTINGS OF RED BANK
Plein air artists fanned out across Red Bank last week to quickly capture the town on canvas. Here are some of their works. (click to view)
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June 6th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: MONMOUTH BOAT CLUB ON “MOST ENDANGERED” LIST
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Red Bank's 145- year-old Monmouth Boat Club has been put on Preservations NJ's annual "Ten Most Endangered" historic places. (click to read)
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May 6th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: HISTORIC WALKING TOURS RETURN
Do you know your Red Bank history? Red Bank Public Library Historic Walking Tours resume this weekend. (click to read)
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April 4th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: WOMEN’S DAY MARCHERS DECRY TRUMP/MUSK
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On International Womens Day, hundreds marched through Red Bank to protest Trump administration policies. (click for photos)
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March 8th, 2025 @ 6pm
SPRINGSTEEN DOC PUTS RED BANK AT CENTER STAGE
Hulu's new Bruce Springsteen documentary follows him across the globe, but keeps Red Bank rehearsals sessions front and center. (click to read)
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October 28th, 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
GROWIN’ UP WITH SPRINGSTEEN, OFF BROAD
RED BANK: The untold story of the coffeehouse that had a lifelong impact on local teens while helping to launch the career of an 18-year-old singer named Bruce Springsteen.
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September 12th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: IN MEMORY OF THOSE KILLED ON SEPT. 11, 2001
RED BANK: Locals to gather at Riverside Gardens Park to remember those who lost their lives in the horrific September 11, 2001 attacks.
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September 10th, 2024 @ 11pm
VIDEO: RED BANKERS BOOGIE FOR COUNT BASIE’S BIRTHDAY
VIDEO: On jazz legend William "Count" Basie's birthday, redbankgreen asks Red Bank residents to show off their "Red Bank Boogie." (click for more)
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August 21st, 2024 @ 3pm
redbankgreen FOUNDER SIGNS OFF
RED BANK: Some parting thoughts as redbankgreen founder John T. Ward calls it quits after 18 years and 15,000 posts.
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August 1st, 2024 @ 11pm
MORE FALLOUT FROM SICKLES COLLAPSE
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The implosion of Sickles Market continued to echo with two bankruptcy filings, including one by the heir to the 116-year-old farm business.
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May 14th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: VINYL FANS BASK ON MECHANIC STREET
Zappa, Go-Go's, Menudo and more sunshine than a Katrina and the Waves tune. A medley of fun photos from the rockingly successful vinyl fest that took over Mechanic Street. (click for more)
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May 12th, 2024 @ 8am
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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 ...