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Category Archives: Housing

Today's Star-Ledger reports that Red Bank-based homebuilding giant Hovnanian Enterprises is cutting prices and offering incentives worth up to $240,000 on unsold new homes, discounts that industry experts call unprecedented. From the story, by business reporter Joe Perone: Just a...
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September 13th, 2007 @ 8am
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A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a reorganization plan for the remaining assets of the former Kara Homes, the Asbury Park Press reports. The deal means that work will resume on 11 residential housing developments stalled by Kara's insolvency last...
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September 12th, 2007 @ 7pm
Already struggling against a tide of falling real estate values, Red Bank-based homebuilding giant Hovnanian Enterprises is now, like others in its industry, fighting a rip current brought on by the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. The company reported...
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September 7th, 2007 @ 6am
Tax bills reflecting the yet-to-be finalized 2007 municipal rate are landing in Red Bank mailboxes, and the annual rite of collective frustration they bring was amplified at last night's council session by the impact of this year's property revaluations. Things...
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August 14th, 2007 @ 11am
After threatening to take Red Bank zoners to court over an adverse ruling last month, the owner of the troubled filling station property at the corner of Monmouth and West streets has instead decided to revise his proposal for stores,...
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August 9th, 2007 @ 1pm
The prospective buyers of the historic T. Thomas Fortune house property want to develop the site into affordable housing, according to a press release from the borough Historic Preservation Commission. The names of the would-be buyers have yet to be...
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August 6th, 2007 @ 7am
The Apparently Unstoppable Colmorgen Kids once again nailed it, being first to identify last week's image as the gate at 140 Rumson Road, at the corner of Buena Vista. Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre also recognized it. A rumor we...
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August 2nd, 2007 @ 6am
A federal watchdog agency will look into the circumstances under which a Rumson developer obtained rights to convert former military housing at Fort Hancock into commercial space on Sandy Hook without showing he has the money to do the job,...
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July 31st, 2007 @ 6am
One of the crappiest — and, apparently, most star-crossed — corners of Red Bank seems destined to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Last week, the new owner of property at the southeast intersection of Monmouth and West streets,...
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July 26th, 2007 @ 6am
A Roman Catholic charitable group has resurrected a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard to provide temporary housing and childcare assistance to homeless mothers and mothers-to-be. Madonna House @ Red Bank Inc., a registered 501c3 charity, will hold an open...
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July 24th, 2007 @ 2pm
Zuhdi Karagjozi, the Rumson man who founded Kara Homes, claims in court papers that the bankrupt homebuilder's chief restructuring officer and "his henchmen" are poised to cheat him, according to a story on the Asbury Park Press website. From the...
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July 19th, 2007 @ 12pm
A rumor that billionaire investor Warren Buffett was buying shares of Hovnanian Enterprises lifted the Red Bank-based homebuilder's shares 12 percent last Friday. But so far today, the shares, while up, aren't going nuts. According to BigCharts, the shares were...
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July 16th, 2007 @ 10am
The already bizarre border war between two prominent Rumson families took another unusual turn earlier this week when the judge in the case ruled that "members of the public" will benefit if Citigroup Vice Chairman Pete Dawkins and his wife,...
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July 5th, 2007 @ 7am
A Tiffany clock sold for $6,000, and a pair of Tiffany lamps went for another six grand. A 1964 Chevy Impala SS went for $16,000. But that Navesink River-front mansion we told you about last week — the one that...
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July 2nd, 2007 @ 12pm
Today's Asbury Park Press has a story about dual efforts by Red Bank officials to address quality of life concerns: the noise ordinance aimed at bars and restaurants, and the hiring of a new bilingual code inspector to deal with...
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July 2nd, 2007 @ 6am
Here's an event that may appeal to bargain vultures as well as to those members of the hoi polloi aching for an up-close glimpse of how the other half lives. In fact, it might appeal especially to someone who's ready...
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June 28th, 2007 @ 3pm
Rumson resident Zuhdi Karagjozi, founder of Kara Homes, has been bounced from the company as part of a reorganization plan, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The name of the company has also been de-Kara-ed. It will now be called...
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June 28th, 2007 @ 1pm
The median price of all new single-family homes built in Monmouth County last year was $810,000, more than 3.5 times the national median of $230,000, according to a new report from the county Planning Board. Typical size: 3,875 square feet,...
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June 8th, 2007 @ 6am
Middletown authorities reported a second recent attack on a child by a coyote last night, according to stories in today's Star-Ledger and Asbury Park Press. According to the Ledger, the police fired one shot at an animal spotted nearby shortly...
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May 22nd, 2007 @ 6am
The pissing match between Wall Street millionaires Pete Dawkins and Mickey Gooch gobbled up another three hours of valuable Monmouth County court time yesterday, according to today's Asbury Park Press. And if the judge was amused, it was largely because...
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May 19th, 2007 @ 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.