Category Archives: Housing

RED BANK: Builder whose plan for a 32-unit building by the train station was shot down is back with a smaller 20 unit proposal.

RED BANK: Neighbors complained of loud parties. Code enforcement wrote tickets. The Borough Council re-wrote the laws. Now, an Airbnb owner is selling his home out of frustration. (click for more)

RED BANK: Family displaced and pet cat is killed as fire breaks out in their Ambassador Drive home. (click to read)

RED BANK: As the town plans a public workshop on transit village, developer says "it needs to be dense" with housing.

RED BANK: A strip of riverfront land set aside for public access has been overtaken by private patios and "No Trespassing" signs. (click for more)

RED BANK: A plan for a mixed use building on Shrewsbury Avenue is back on track after the borough shut down construction last June.

Demolition begins for new apartments at Globe Court and Mechanic Street.

RED BANK: Smoke alarms awakened occupants to predawn blaze caused by spontaneous combustion of oily rags, officials said.

RED BANK: Firefighters find smoking, self-cleaning oven in uninhabited Manor Drive condo unit. (Click for details)

RED BANK: "Vapor mitigation systems" installed at Marion Street condo complex built on former dry cleaner site.

RED BANK: After more than three years surrounded by ugly black fencing, corner of Maple and West Front comes alive with construction activity.

RED BANK: Pete Soviero, who started his auto repair shop right out of RBR, ends 48-year career as a transit village plan advances.

RED BANK: Underutilized land, acres of parking lots. Study finds train station fits bill for an "area in need of redevelopment."

RED BANK: Historic Preservation Commission starts possible addition of Irving Place to its portfolio; mulls unapproved removal of slate roof.

RED BANK: After a subdivision, an instant house rises on a new Catherine Street lot.

RED BANK: A new, 5,000-square foot home on Shrewsbury Avenue sells for a jaw-dropping sum, setting a West Side record.

RED BANK: Historic Preservation Committee members, meeting for first time in eight months, get acquainted with new law they'll administer.

RED BANK: Council mulls borrowing for train station sidewalks and replacing lead water lines.

RED BANK: First look inside the $12 million expansion of Lunch Break, built to help the social services nonprofit fill skyrocketing needs.

RED BANK: Proposed apartment building at train station that drew flak over its size has been scrapped. But he will be back, developer says.